Industrial Asian lager developed for Chinese restaurants, coming from a unique Buddha-shaped green bottle; here apparently ascribed to an Australian brewery, but my sample, bought from a Chinese restaurant in Ghent, clearly states brewed by Cheerday Brewery in China. Medium thick, snow white, lightly lacing, opening head on a crystal clear, pure 'metallic' golden beer with no visible sparkling. Aroma at first severly skunked (mercaptans - the 'lightstruck effect', in other words), an effect that gradually makes room for hints of cold cooked rice, iron shavings, industrial white bread, breakfast cereals, minerals, damp straw bales, polyester, grain dust. Very neutral onset, some grainy sweetishness with a dull sourish undertone, very minerally due to fizzy carbonation (as in sparkling water), thinly stretching over the tongue in a bland, simple, cereally-sweetish way with light metallic edges; bit rubbery in the finish, with only the faintest touch of grassy hops, providing just a brief and superficial hint of bitterishness. Thin cereally sweetishness and prickling, minerally carbonation remain afterwards. Once the lightstruck effect has faded, there is hardly anything left worth noting here in terms of flavour: this is as inoffensive as industrial standard lager gets, with a very thin, almost watery profile and only the thinnest cereally sweetishness. By being as neutral as sparkling water (metaphorically speaking), I can easily drink this without being disturbed by too much of that maltose sweetishness or unpleasant iron and plastic effects plagueing most industrial pale lagers, but those elements are certainly there, just in a very thin, faint way. Within its particular category, there is not much wrong with it, this drinks as easily as sparkling water. The bottle is obviously more alluring than its content - which, of course, is exactly what I was expecting; nothing truly off-putting here, besides utter blandness.

0,3 litre Bottle from Tax Free store at Billund Airport. Golden with white head. Malts, yeast, sweetness.

Bottle found in St. Kitts. One extra point for the molded bottle, and the foam is reasonably good and there's a semi muddy gold body. The aroma is fake hops and floor cleaner, a bit of caramel and toilet bowl in there too. Flavour is fake malt forward with very little of a hop accent, and I find the mouthfeel a bit of lingering adjuncts. Alcohol actually burns through too. It's kind of a mess - the bottles must have been pricey, they couldn't spring for a good brewer.

Bottle at Seven Seas Side Turkey. Golden, clear with minimal white head. Malt and grain aroma. Sweet, minimal bitterness, again malt and grain Boring