Orion Premium Draft Beer

Brewed by Orion Breweries Limited
Style: Pale Lager
Urasoe-City, Okinawa, Japan

355ml can brought to me from Japan by friends of my parents. Very pale golden in colour, very thin wispy white head, no lacing, light carbonation visible. The aroma is very grainy, tin and metal, light grassy hops. The flavour is lightly sweet, some grassy and herbal hops, pale malts, cookies, grainy. Full mouthfeel, light body, high carbonation. Finishes gassy, medium length. Better then expected, quite refreshing.

Very pale clear yellow color with a sudsy head. NOt much aroma but what is there is grassy. Light hops and a thin body. Orion must be Japanese for Keystone

Bottle - 633mL. Faded gold with a small fizzy white head. Nose is sweet and malty with some corny notes, and light cereal. Taste is sweet with corn syrup, cereal grains and light straw. Body is light-medium with some bubbly fizziness. Finishes with more corn syrup, sweetened cereal, light straw and a hint of fruit.

Canned. Pale golden colour, minor white head. Aroma is diacetylic, maizeish and malty. Flavour is totally crap, diacetyl and very harsh grassy mould and skunked hops. Very unpleasant. No points for this one. No, none whatsoever.

Can 350ml (BB 08/2006)
Pale yellow, mostly vanishing head. Corn aroma and boiled vegatables. Sweet corn, mushrooms and vegetables also in flavor. Really awful, can’t be like this as fresh?

aroma of wet dog. some grain, corn. lightly sweet. hint of hop in finish. grainy, corn flavor. no skunk flavor or aroma. pale yellow with a fizzy white head.

Pours clear golden with a quickly fading white head. Grainy, corny aroma. Typical pale lager taste of grain and corn. Moderately sweet, just enough bitterness for balance. Medium bodied with lively carbonation. Boring but inoffensive.

Bottled. Pours a light golden color. Aroma is of corn and not much else. Flavor is grainy and somewhat sweet. Some maltiness in there as well, though only a little. Unoffensive lager.