Kirin Ichiban

Brewed by Kirin Brewery Company
Style: Pale Lager
Tokyo, Japan

This was a pretty standard asian beer albeit a little heavier in the malts than others i have tasted. Color was pale gold and it didnt have much of an aroma. Pretty hard to drink.

Bottle in Folkets Prk, Malmö. Clear yellow coloured with a medium sized white head. Sweet aroma of malts, caramel and hay. Sweet flavour of malts, hat and corn with notes of hops. Hoppy finish.

Bottle. A - Light golden yellow. Large, fluffy white head. Recedes about average with a bit of lacing. S - Slight sweet, cooked grain malts. T - Lots of sweet grain malt taste. Not a lot else, really. A little bit of grassy hops. Very adjunct lager tasting. M - Light and crisp. High carbonation, and fizzy. D - Alright. Light and easy to drink, but the flavor isn’t really great. Not much flavor, just sweet grain corn/rice flavor. Notes: Taste a lot like a macro. A bit more sweet and grain taste than other Macros, but that’s not necessarily a good or bad thing.

Bottle: Hoppy citrus smell. Opaque hazy golden yellow color. Very small white head disappears quick to no head. Taste is a bit spicy, slight hoppy and s amll hint of corn.

Longneck bottle poured into tulip. Golden yellow and crystalline color, with a fluffy, dense and thick head. Quite carbonated. Aroma is malty at most. Taste is at first very pleasant, with some quick sweet notes, soon followed by an acidic, fishy taste that I really don’t dig. I am not sure if this one had been stocked in poor condition and got ruined, but anyway... Watery as it should be for the genre. Refreshing. Supposed to go really well with seafood, sushi. I can only wish my next one won’t taste fishier than the sushi itself!

Bottle at home. Pours clear gold with a thick creamy, foamy, white head. Aroma of soapy grainy malts with some nice oak and complexity. Flavor is pub ale with some smooth malts, not bad. Creamy texture makes a good mouthfeel. Quite a decent lager.

Bouteille achetée en Ontario. Bière blonde-dorée classique, commerciale, bière qui ne se démarque pas de ses concurrents. agréable sans plus. 2/10

Eh, ruining the chronological order of my rates because I can’t be bothered not to rate these beers tonight online while I’m tasting it now that I have internet again. 0.33l bottle brewed for Kirin Europe by PIT, Kaliningrad. A Japanese beer brewed under license in Russia for a German distributor. Cute. Pale golden colour, small white head, went away fast. Sweetish grainy nose mingling with somehow fresh grassy hop notes. Sweetish, alcohol-like sweaty taste. Odd fruity notes pop up from there. Some very light hoppiness, herbal-grainy, carrying some bitterness near the end. Meh.