Echigo Beer Blonde

Brewed by Echigo Beer Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Nishikanbara-gun, Niigata-ken, Japan

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Can. Light malty sweetness. Standard yellow with fat slow bubbles rising. Very grassy flavor with a hint of cardboard in mid palate, and a bit of bitterness at the end. Thin, very gassy, light body (rice addition). Okay, but doesn’t really have much character.

Medium offwhite head. Clear amber body with carbonation. Fruity earthy candy aroma with dusty yeasty bready notes. Dry-sweet fruity raisiny taste with citric strawy notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft mouthfeel. Dryish raisiny malt aftertaste with fruity resiny notes. Nice, drinkable, harmonic. Has some character. (0.35l can, from CitySuper IFC, Hong Kong.)

Okay foamy head with a darker yellow-copper hue on the body. Soft aroma of malts. Flavour is unintrusive malt and caramel, with a slightly watery finish.

Clear golden coloured body with a thin off-white head that has a ton of very very small bubbles. Aroma of pale malt, light cardboard, some very mild fruit and a very very small amount of hops. Light-bodied; Sharp malty note with a touch of cardboard and alcohol, a touch of light hops and an otherwise mild finish. Aftertaste has a little earth, some light caramel, a few hops and mostly light malt coming through. Overall, not such a bad beer, rather mild, but showing a few nice flavours coming through. I sampled this 350 mL can purchased from City’Super! in Hong Kong (2 IFC location), SAR on 30-June-2011 (my birthday) for HK$18.00 sampled at home in Washington on the other side of the planet on 03-October-2011.

Canned at RBJG park session. Deep golden, small head. Fruity with some caramel. Sweetish with rounded mouthfeel. Mildly buttery with rather ow bittrness. Quite simple.

[Canned. Thx gnoff] Golden with a bubbly white head. Sweetish aroma with berry-notes. Sweet flavour as well with the same berry-notes.

<i>Can (35 cl), thanks gnoff and his friend</i>. Deep golden, small white head. Bready and peppry, and slightly honeyisj malt aroma. Light to medium bodied, soft carbonation. Dry with moderate bitterness.

350 ml can thanks to a friend from Stockholm. BB 19/12/2008. Clear copper color, off-white head. Sweet, malty, honey, floral scent. Malty, buttery, bitter taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium high dry bitterness.

It claims to be patterned after North American ales, which I can understand, although the strong yeast character makes it somewhat reminiscent of a light Belgian ale as well. Decent hopping, although nothing like in a pale ale, with a strong very fruity yeast flavor and aroma. Decent malt bottom as well. Fruity, with yeast and malt predominately. A decent beer, good and easy to drink, though not wholly interesting or very original.

Pours like a pale lager...though a lot of carbonation and a thicker head. Aroma is slightly sweet yeast and nothing else. Flavor is sugary and syrupy...not really much else...a bit of dry yeast and maybe a tad bit of grass. Body is actually semi creamy and much more thick than an average pale lager.