Clear golden color, minimal white head. Minimal aroma with some pale malt. Boring

Bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a clear gold with white head. Aroma of corn, grains and skunk. Taste is about the same. Light bodied with a thin texture. Fizzy carbonation and not much of a finish. Overall, another crap pale lager.

Medium white head. Clear yellow body. Coarse grainy aroma with cardboard notes. Dry cardboard and malt taste with mealy notes. Mid-bodied. Slightly grainy mouthfeel. Dryish papery grainy aftertaste with slight acidity. Not really very nice. (0.35l can, from JR Takashimaya, Nagoya station.)

Bottle @ Home. Pours light goldn with a white head. Aroma of malt, grass, lemon. Taste is grainy malt, light grassy hops, light citrus, hints of wet paper. Thin body, lively carbonation. 120412
Earlier Rating: 12/29/2011 Total Score: 2.1
Bottle. Pours light golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, weak grassy hops. Taste is malt, light grassy hops. Thin body, lively carbonation. Quite refreshing pale lager. 291211

My 330ml bottle was brewed under licence by Wells and Youngs of Bedford, England: best before 8 July 2012 it was poured (twice) into a ’Veltins’ badged pilsner stemmed tulip on 14 Feb 2012. Looks like a regular lager: golden, clear and bright, mid depth of goldness. The head a mass of white bubbles, then fading to a wispy covering and a collar. Slight hop aroma, some hints of cereals maybe as well. Crisp, dry and boring were my first three thoughts as the beer entered my mouth. Strangely for a lager as the mouth began to dry after each sip the palate seemed to get sweeter instead of the normal slightly bitter, sometimes metallic hit. I suspect my beer (brewed in the UK) tastes very different to the US version. So my review will not be a lot of good to most users, but hey ho, it might interest one or two who read it.

Pale golden coloured body with a hint of cloudiness, a billion small bubbles rising from the bottom and a centimetre thick white head. Aroma of pale malt, skunk and a bit of metal - not so great. Light-bodied; Sharp metallic flavour at first with some earthy malt, a hint of light hops and a few sugars tucked in to the metallic and pungent flavour. Aftertaste shows a grassy herbal taste with the metal notes and a small sweetness. Overall, a fairly standard lager with more of a metallic and herbal note than most. I sampled this 35 cL can purchased from 7-11 in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan on 04-August-2010 sampled at home in Washington on 15-March-2012.

Bottle. Pours clear light golden with a small white head. Aroma of sweet malt with just a hint of hops. Sweet and watery without much aroma and flavour, pretty clean. Tastes a bit like malty natural mineral water with alcohol. Not bad, it just doesn’t taste much. Works well as a thirst quencher.

33cl bottle. Golden colour with a frothy and creamy white head. Aroma has herbal hops notes. Flavour is grassy moderate malty where cereal and herbal hints are present. The final is moderate bittery with an average duration. Carbonation is medium. Bdoy is light.