Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
@Pauls Gathering courtesy of j12601-22 oz bottle-pours a disappearing white head and pale yellow color. Aroma is vegetal, rot. Taste is sweet vegetal/corn/grassy, some hops.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Ichiban Sakura from Orion Breweries Limited 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Can. Grassy, citrus hop aroma. Sweet, malty flavor, fruity. Nice saaz hop flavors. Tasty. Overall not bad but a bit too sweet, slightly cloying. Tasty hops, but they really need more in the finish to bitter it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty aroma with some grainy hints. Sweetish malty grainy flavor. Has a thin weak sweetish malty and slightly watery finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Grass, rice, lemmon, pear and cinnamon in the aroma. Color of a bud light or any other Mass-Macro. Pours with a largish bubbly white head. Watery and bitter rice taste, but not in a very bad way, actually a decently refreshing aftertaste. Watery start to the mouthfeel ending very dry. Highly carbonated. Pretty boring.
omhper (44752) reviewed Premium Draft Beer from Orion Breweries Limited 19 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5
Bottled (as Orion Premium Beer, 5%) at Monks Café, Stockholm. Lightly hazy pale yellow, brief head. Vague applearoma Sweet and ricey with light body. Soft and very drinkable, butrather void of desired flavours. Some paper shows up in a finish almost entirely without bitterness.
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Premium Draft Beer from Orion Breweries Limited 19 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
Canned. Pale golden colour, minor white head. Aroma is diacetylic, maizeish and malty. Flavour is totally crap, diacetyl and very harsh grassy mould and skunked hops. Very unpleasant. No points for this one. No, none whatsoever.
TBone (30139) reviewed Premium Draft Beer from Orion Breweries Limited 19 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Can 350ml (BB 08/2006)
Pale yellow, mostly vanishing head. Corn aroma and boiled vegatables. Sweet corn, mushrooms and vegetables also in flavor. Really awful, can’t be like this as fresh?
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Premium Draft Beer from Orion Breweries Limited 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Date unknown, but the bottle had been sitting on the shelf for quite some time, must be a 2004 bottle. Pours a golden body, typical pale lager loooking, so pardon me for not going in depth on that. Light amount of creamyish, white head which is actually quite well-retained. Medium-sized bubbles rise slowly. Smells of light apples at first, in fact I just barely catch a whiff of it, and then I can not find that note through the rest of the beer. There is a touch of graininess, something dry with a bit of corny biproduct smell, perhaps a touch sugary. I will say that the aroma, while not offensive at all, to me, is ridiculously weak. I have to sniff at it quite aggressively to even be able to note some light grains and grass. Anyhow, the flavor begins very even and reserved. Just a plain white dough-like maltiness. Moderate carbonation is not biting or overly forced. Ends with some (more) pale grains and light honey. Not watery at all, so that was impressive. Medium to medium-light body, just a very steady honey/dough maltiness on the palate with a touch of hops bitterness and some green apples lingering (not in the nose, though). Even provides good lacing. Hey, it was a hot day, very humid and nasty out and I was thirsty. It tasted darn good to me. Didnt find any metal or skunkiness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle. Sour barnyard malt aroma. Golden yellow with little head. Sour malt flavor with a hint of soy sauce. Light body. Okay if you don’t have any other choice or want a light beer.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Premium Draft Beer from Orion Breweries Limited 20 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Light gold colour. Grassy noble hop aroma. Reasonably full body for style. Grassy hops meet grainy malts in a light flavour profile. Not stellar, but far from objectionable.