OB Blue

Brewed by Oriental Brewery (InBev)
Style: Pale Lager
Seoul, South Korea

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Pours a light medium carbonated golden. Aromas of light sour grain and slight grass. Flavors of light wet grass and light grain. Very thin flavors. Watery and leaves just a light grain aftertaste. Slightly crisp. This looks so similar to Labatt blue. Taste like a Non alcohol brew.

ljus gul i färgen, litet vitt skum. Söt maltig majsdoft, gräs. Smakar sött men vattnigt. återigen majs och gräs.

What do you expect, mass produced pale lager. Only difference is this one is made (still) in Korea.

Bottle. Apparently when you order a "pitcher" of this at a Korean restaurant, it comes in a 1.6L plastic bottle, which is sort of charming. Easily drinkable carbonated beverage that bears a minor approximation to beer in that it is somewhat malty and alcoholic. Good to wash down mounds of AYCE Korean barbecue.

Birra da ristorante e nulla più!

Shitty hay and corn aroma. Crystal clear yellow, medium head. Drab corny flavor. Blah, not much to see here at all.

From notes. First reviewed 8/10/2011. Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a pint glass. OB Blue has a golden straw color with a small white sea foam cap that does not really stick around. Wow, there is almost no aroma. Maybe a little grass and light malt, but that’s it. The taste follows. This is just fizzy water basically. Some rice and a little bit of grass and lager yeast. No hops, that would be too much work. The mouthfeel is probably about as light as a beer can go and not drift away into the atmosphere. Very fizzy crisp, and clean, although that is mainly because there is not really any flavor that could screw that up. It was a hard feat to accomplish, but this may have less flavor than most light beers. There is literally nothing to appreciate here. So glad I ordered this.

0.33l bottle @ Hyundai Hotel, Ulsan South Korea. A clear and pale body with a small quickly clenching to the sides of the glass just off-white lager head. Thin fruity-watery hints and some weak hops in the aroma. Average carbonated and with a thin and watery mouthfeel. Hints of burned malts in the flavor, some thin dusty hops and the whole thing ends extremely, and then I really mean extremely watery. Just like having a glass of tap water. No extreme bad flavors, even though I did not care to much for the burned tones. Drinkable as a thirst quencher.

Fruity aroma. Crisp flavour. Some stale malty aftertaste. Barely any carbonation.

Draught at Korean restaurant. Faint maizy aroma, slight watery flavour, no finish. The commercial description is a lie. If you are in a Korean restaurant and they have this or water, drink water.