DSG (25977) reviewed Tsingtao from Tsingtao Brewery (Tsingtao) 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Bottle (thanks mom!). Clear pale golden color with a medium, very bubbly, white head that diminishes fast. Aroma is quite grainy with some corn notes and faint hoppy hints. Sweet flavor of cereals, some creamed corn and really light bitterness in the finish. Light-bodied.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed HuiQuan Beer from Tsingtao Brewery (Tsingtao) 17 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Green Can:
Super pale golden coloured body with no head at all on top of this one. Aroma of stale malt, a very light amount of hops and an odd presence of rice. Light-bodied; Not a good taste at all, and showing more of the blandness than anything else. Aftertaste has more of the same, the palate is still dry and bitter after a sip of this one. I sampled this 33 cL can purchased from Taste (outside the Ngong Ping 360 cable car station) in Hong Kong, China, brought back to the United States on 30-July-2006.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
330 ml can thanks to a friend from Stockholm. BB 13/03/2010. Labelled 5.0% ABV. Clear straw yellow color, small white head. Sweet, grainy, apple scent. Sweet, sugary taste. Thin mouthfeel, low bitterness.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1
Bottled(330ml). -From the local China restaurant. Pale yellow coloured, small airy white head, dusty corn nose. Weak malty, watery, some notes of rice and nothing else. Selenium riched...Yeah, yeah...
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Canned. Pale yellow, minimal head. Buttery nose. Medium sweet with clean rounded mouthfeel. Fruity and buttery with low bitterness.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
0.33 l bottle, courtesy of Doggythedog, thanks for sharing. This was funny enough already before tasting, a beer enriched with that! Damn! So it poured some ordinary pale golden body with small head. Weaker, corny and rice aroma, some fake hops maybe. But the flavor was really the bad thing! Strange note reminding to metallicity (or alcohol) here, with rice/corny base without anything pleasant here. But its very thin body helps it to become drinkable (even then, barely) which is a huge plus here. No finish or some ugly half second of something...forget it. Stupid concept and stupid beer, but can be swallowed somehow.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1
0.33l bottle purchased at a Chinese restaurant in Zagreb near my place. What a find. What a name. What a concept. Stunning. Poured a pale yellow body with a tiny white head that went away slowly. Lazy carbonation. The nose is as bad as expected... almost foul. Rice and alcohol (not something you would expect to find in a 3.1% lager). Extremely watery taste, papery rice and that is all. Blah. Not all that offensive but probably stands in a dictionary under crap.
Pinball (15907) reviewed Tsingtao from Tsingtao Brewery (Tsingtao) 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
bottle, label does not match the picture at all, but the imported beer claimed to be a tsingtao beer acc. to my notes. i probably spelled tsingtao wrong, as no tsingtao beer exists.. sampled at a chinese restaurant in alcudia spain. aroma-mainly hoppy, sweet notes behind that. appearance-yellow , thick white head. flavor-not very strong flavor. sweet faint hops, sawdusty sweet notes. even though very weak, it is nicely balanced.
Borresteijn (12407) reviewed Tsingtao from Tsingtao Brewery (Tsingtao) 17 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle @ Chinese restaurant. Sweet lager, rice taste, slightly hoppy finish. OK.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Rating #1800!:
Clear golden coloured body with a thinnish white head. Aroma of malt, metal and blood - not much pleasant here. Light-bodied; Sharp metallic flavour with some nicer mellow hop flavours. Aftertaste shows some more harshness around the edges with an alcoholic burn and some bitter metal tastes coming through. Overall, a strong and metallic flavour - but some decent tastes come through. I’d rather have this than a normal Tsingtao, but that might just be because I had this 330 mL can, purchased from a small grocery store in Shanghai, China a year ago, sampled during the opening Ceremony of the Olympics, on 08-August-2008.