Ginga Kogen Oyasumi Beer (Good Night Beer)

Formerly brewed at Ginga Kogen Beer Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
Waga-gun, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Serve in Weizen

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The mini-can is cool to look at, but for pure functionality it just isn’t enough beer for me. However, the beer. Hazy blond colour. The aroma is sweaty, with a fair bit of banana. Fairly tart - very wheaty - with moderate banana and hints of yeast. While not all that sound technically, it manages to be quite appealing.

Pours a hazy straw yellow with a fairly thick white head. Aroma is strong and rich, wheaty and yeasty with a definite fruity undertone, not all citrus. Flavor is classic hefeweizen, wheaty and malty with a definite citrus undertone, very refreshing. This is one of the best hefes I have ever had - glad that I gave it a chance. Texture is silky-smooth and just a little tingly. Recommended, especially to hefeweizen fans.

Canned. Very pale hazy yellow coloured. Yeasty banana aroma. Weak wheat flavour. Thin.

Mini-can, thanks IslandHaole! Hazy pale golden. Citric banana aroma. Firm body with saoft, papery maltiness. A well made refreshing wheat beer with restrained sweetness.

Thanks to Island Haole for this one. Pours turbid dilute urine color with small head. Aroma of huge hefeish elements, including coriander, citrus, yeast, and banana. Tastes hefeish, but the palate is rather light and somewhat lacking in complexity. Still, this one was good, and I found myself wishing I had more than 4 ounces of it.

IslandHaole sent me this tiny can of fizzy brew. Pours cloudy pale yellow, small head, and pretty active carbonation. Spicy nose, yeast and banana. TimE did nail this, right on the damn head...I think they call it good night, like it’s a little can to drink before you go to bed, to help you sleep. Then again, maybe I’m drunk...

It took a while but this has made it’s way up north. WTF is with the kiddie sized can? TimE has nailed this one on the head, great Hefeweizen scent, I think the "smoke" is part of the yeast flavor profile. Yes indeed from 60-0 in 4 seconds, a very quick finish. This is a " two-gulp" beer. But it’s a good two gulps!

This comes in a tiny 5 oz can. The hazy golden brew carried a slightly frothy head with an excellent nose of cloves and bannanas. Mild smoke appeared in the mouth along with some cloves, but I was looking for a little more depth. Then a mildly dry finish. Started great, but then just coasted.