Hite Beer

Brewed by The Hite Company
Style: Pale Lager
Yeongdeungpo, Seoul, South Korea

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

10/21/09 from 22oz bottle. Aroma is very corny sweet/sour pils with a light, but not objectionable soapy note. Appearance is the lightest clear yellow possible with a very low white head. Flavor is is sour malt followed, followed by sweetnes and has some of the lightest bittering in a light lager I’ve seen. Mouthfeel is light bodied with a moderate carb texture. Overall, simple, even for a pale lager, but this does manage to produce a beer without much to object to.

Pretty much just the standard macro lager. Although it’s nothing special it does have slightly more flavor than Bud, Coors, Miller, etc.... Light and refreshing; goes well with Korean BBQ.

Pours clear golden with a thick white head that subsides quickly and a skunky lager aroma. There is a slightly sweet almost undetectable pale malt flavor with a hint of hop bitterness. Probably beats drinking water.

Bottle, with one of those silly color-changing labels. Pours -- well, it looks like beer. Yellow, fizzy, light head. Nose is toasty with a touch of musty, like a room that needs aired out. Pretty basic adjucnt flavor with prickly carbonation -- it’d go well with Korean barbeque, and after all, isn’t that what it’s about? Drink the beer that goes with the cuisine.

Bottle: Light, grainy aroma. Pale golden color, low head. Flavor is light, grainy and not much more. Very low bitterness in the end. Could be worse.

Can, courtesy of Palme and shared with Bergen Beer Geek Tasting Crew. Pours a clear pale lager body with a small white head. Nose is pale malts, sweet grains, corn and some citric hints. Taste is corn, sweet grains and hints of citrus and pale malts. Nothing bad, but nothing good either. For an Asian lager, I think South Korea could have a far worse "flagship" than this.

Bottle. pale blonde. Grainy aroma with apple and hints of perfume. Thin. Perfumed apple flavor. Utterly boring.

Bottle 0,33ltr: Clear golden brew with an light bitter taste and some hints of rice, like in Budweiser. So now an new Korean beer-quest, taste an North Korean beer. Maybe better than this one., or not.

Bottle from Korean restaurant. Pours pale yellow. Aroma has some hay and grains. Taste is malty and grainy, and quite sweet. A drinkable pale lager, but I won’t be having it again.