Tsingtao

Brewed by Tsingtao Brewery
Style: Premium Lager
Qinqdao, China

Serve in Lager glass

Pours a pale golden color. Foamy white head. Smells skunky. Taste, however, is fruity and sweet. Quite different from aroma. Not a huge fan but it was free :)

This right on the level of the American macro stuff. Very slight malt taste, everything else is skunk. Not nearly one of the worst beers I’ve had, but it isn’t very good.

Pale lager, premium lager, a rare few are worth a damn, and this doesn’t nearly resemble one of them

Medium white head. Paleish yellow body. Light oily grassy papery aroma with toffee notes. Dryish papery mealy strawy grassy taste with toffee notes. Light body. Mild, smoothish mouthfeel. Dryish papery grassy aftertaste. Fairly clean, although bad off-flavours settle in the mouth after a while. Bloody hell! They actually put hops in this. Could be a lot worse. (0.33l bottle, Meny Grønland, Oslo.)

Bottle at Indian Summer, Brighton, 14th July 2010. Piss yellow with an attempt at some head. Weak nose, bit of cardboard & paper. Bland, weak and watery macro lager taste. This is a "Thatcher" beer - only drink when *there is no alternative*!

Very pale, watery and thin, very little on flavour, although it does have quite a nice subtle aroma, seems to appear in quite a lot of chinese restaurants nowadays

Tsingtao beer. How can I say this nicely. It sucks. It’s not the worst beer that I’ve had but it certainly isn’t what I would call a good one. I’ll start with the appearance. It’s a clear golden yellow color. The head that is there is white, but there’s barely any head to begin with and what is present has no retention. It has a hoppy aroma, but that in and of itself isn’t too strong. It may have been the environment that I was in masking the aroma, but I doubt it. It has a thin body with a mild to low carbonation. The flavor was disappointing as well. It has a slight tint of malt but the thin body doesn’t retain the flavor very well so it was mainly a bitter tasteless feel. Overall I hope that China has better beer than this because this is a total bust.

Short-lived head... that or I didn’t pour right for a Tsingtao! Big-bubbled carbonation. Served cold and crisp. Pale yellow, very clear. A little too much like an American pilsner. It is what it is, I suppose. Not as metallic as I expected. Non-offensive flavor. Clean and cold, lightly bitter with a pretty bitter finish.