Kirin Brewery Company (Kirin Holdings)

Commercial Brewery in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵

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1-17 Namamugi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Japan
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Kirin Brewery Company (Kirin Holdings) owns 11 breweries:

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5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
33 cl. bottle @ home. Procured from Sun Wah Supermarket in Antwerp. BBF 20/02/2014. Clear lighter golden with little head. Sweetish pale lager nose, plastic apples & plastic white grains covered in pale lager grains, sweeteners sweet,… Taste is plastic, grains, sweetish, soggy cornflakes & grains, slight mineral & cardboard,… Oily, slightly watery… Another pale lager, touch more drinkable than usual but still far from staggering, less good than I actual remember the regular being but that was many years ago. Earlier Rating: 3/15/2011 Total Score: 3bottle@home: clearly chemical and very one-flavoured but never the less good for a macro lager, very refreshing & drinkable
Tried from Bottle on 14 Nov 2013 at 10:45

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle from 7-11. Lovely hop aroma, citrus, grass, oregano. Bravo, I read. Shockingly nice for a Kirin! Pale gold with a fine, low head. Fruity, lemon flavor, somewhat sweet, nice bitter finish. I like this. Quite ale-like, for sure. Great stuff which I will drink daily at this price until it’s gone. No major beer in Japan has every been hopped like this. Finish is a bit strange, but still good stuff.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Nov 2013 at 01:26

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 9
bottle from sun wah pours not completely clear blonde, good white foam . smell is typical cheap pils very soft carbo . taste is actualy pretty nice! im amazed ! corn, some malts, bit sweetness. in the style of ’ cheap tasting lagers’ this is def the best i ever had . from freaking japan ? inbev, how difficult can it be ???? also its extremely drinkable due to the low carbo . good one, no shit !
Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2013 at 07:48

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Backlog, canned in 2008. Very light beer, light bodied, more like a Schwarz than a stout. Seems bottom fermented to me as well. Not a bad beer though.
Tried from Can on 03 Nov 2013 at 01:27

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Rerate from tap at the new Takumi, presumably still brewed at Weihenstephan?
Fairly solid lager actually, some sweet grains in the nose, mostle clean, chewy, well balanced though.
Old rating 6 6 5 4 5.5 Wells & Youngs bottle. Hazy yellow, white lace. Fresh grassy, light yeasty orangepeel nose. Relatively light body, mealy malt body which leaves a hole in the center, pleasant fruity notes, very quick grassy finish. Slightly salty aftertaste.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2013 at 09:43

3.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2.5
Bottle 0.33l at Oluthuone Leskinen, Oulu. Originally rated 28022012. Colour is clear golden with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Corn, sweetness and malts. Horrible.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Oct 2013 at 06:47

5.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Clear Pale Yellow, Huge Head, Some Spotty lacing. Lightly Sweet, Grain, Malt, Light Peppery Bitter Finish. Watery, Soft Carbonation, creamy. Easily Drinkable and refreshing. Nothing Too Bad, Nothing Too Good. Main Novelty and attraction - is from Japan (in US made under Contract by Budweiser).Rather Decent.
Tried on 14 Sep 2013 at 17:32

4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 2
Duft av malt. Lite tynt skumlag. Fin lys gyllen farge. Friskt og lettdrukket std øl.
Earlier Rating: 5/31/2013 Total Score: 2.5
Godt leskende øl. Standard øl. ikke noe mer spannede enn at det er et japansk øl og er lett drukket og godt i sommervarmen.
Tried on 01 Sep 2013 at 09:40

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4
Bottle from local supermarket. (Brewed under licence by Charles Wells). Clear pale golden colour with an average size white head. Light aroma of malt. Light body, rather thin. Average carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Aug 2013 at 08:56

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Crystal clear straw color, with a film of a white head. The taste is sweeter than most lagers, yet there is still a hop character. A little bit of citrus, a little spice. Mouthfeel is what to expect. Clean crisp. Some carbonation is felt going down. Slight dry finish. Okay at best. Fruitiness is a little much for this style.
Tried on 27 Aug 2013 at 08:05