Echigo Koshihikari

Brewed by Echigo Beer Company
Style: Pale Lager
Nishikanbara-gun, Niigata-ken, Japan

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Gold pour. White head. Crisp aroma of hops, light yeast, and some bready notes. Pretty nice flavor. Lightly bitter, pale malt, crackers. Pretty ok

Bottle. Pale gold with a rapidly disappearing white head. Aroma is grainy and a bit corny with some grass. Thin. Taste is more pleasant than the aroma, and is slightly sweet with little bitterness but quite dry at the end so what bitterness there is lingers. There’s hay and perfumed rice and it’s all quite clean. Looks awful and the first sniff was pants, but really not bad at all after that.

Can from local Yamaya store. Light malty sweetness in the nose. Color is fairly standard yellow, has steady streams of fat slowly rising bubbles. Grassy, some cardboard flavors in mid palate, and touch of mild bitternes in the finish. Thin and crisp, light with the added rice, and gassy. Okay, not really so interesting.

500 ml bottle from Mitsuwa market. Pours a pale gold color with a small fizzy white head that quickly disappears. The aroma is corn-like with some salt and citrus. The flavor is similar to the nose with cereal malts, sugar, light citrus and a bit of salt and pepper. The palate is light but appropriate for the style. The finish is short and sweet. Overall: Not too bad for a pale lager, I’d drink this over a bud any day.

Gusher. Medium offwhite coarseish head doesn’t last. Clear yellow body with carbonation of big fast bubbles. Sugary grainy grassy aroma. Dry-sweetish delicate floral fruity taste with herbal notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, soft, smooth mouthfeel with slight fizz. Dry-sweet grainy grapes aftertaste with herbal notes. Very delicate. Perhaps too delicate, even. (0.5l bottle, CitySuper IFC, Central, Hong Kong.)

Bottle in Brisbane. Above average for a pale lager. Aromas of hay, wet leaves, and citrus. Taste is sweet, with short legs. Palate is oily, and medium bodied. Pale yellow, with no head.

500mL at some random place in DC. Above Thai Tanic? Seriously, where am I? Pours with a clear yellow SRM topped by soda fizz. Nose is candy corn and metals with rust and blood iron content. Taste is metallic, super blood iron heavy. Palate is sticky with old candies and sharp metals. Gross.

Very enjoyable beer. Aroma is rather faint and appearance is light amber with thin head. Flavour though is very clean and pure with a mouth filling texture and balance of light sweetness and delicate finish.

smells like corn and spent grain. not flattering at the start. effervescent, pale yellow, white head, faint. more body and flavor than expected. solid pale lager,

330ml bottle pours a pale golden color with a small white head that settles to a few spots of lacing on glass. Aroma is grainy with some hops. Taste is light malty sweetness and a crisp hoppy bitter finish. A small step up from the standard macro-lagers available.

UPDATED: OCT 11, 2011 bottle. sweaty pear cider and sweet corn and rice pudding nose. sharp, twangy, biting edge, seemingly boozy at 5%. watery with fizzy loose carbonation, flabby body. malt liquor finish.