Tsingtao

Brewed by Tsingtao Brewery
Style: Premium Lager
Qinqdao, China

Serve in Lager glass

Pale yellow, quickly deminishing head, no lace. No aroma. Neutral palate. "Refreshing" only in a macro-brewed pale lager sense. Absolutely nothing unique here.

[Bottled at a chinese reastaurant at Sveavägen, Sthlm] Golden with a brief, white head. A lot of bubbles. Pretty fresh mouthfeel. No bitterness with notes of oranges. Bland and industrial.

Much like a traditional pilsner. It has a bit of metallic aroma.

(Bottle at some Chinese restaurant in Stockholm, 29 May 2010) Pale yellow colour with frothy, white head. Malty nose with grain, hay and rice. Malty taste with notes of bread, grain, grass and a touch of citrus. Low bitterness, rather thin body and fairly sweet. No foul flavours, just thin, sweet and fairly boring.

Bottle. Looking at the list if ingredients, I should have hated this. However, I have drank much worse. Pale gold with a decent white head that left moderate lacing. Aroma of sweet malt and rice with a whiff of hops. Flavour was a tad sweet with a vaguely hoppy finish. Inoffensive.

Bouteille verte de 355 ml. Arôme: Très légèrement "skunké". Odeur de houblon assez présente. Apparence: Couleur paille. Petit col qui disparaît vite. Faible carbonisation. Saveur: Très léger goût de moufette. Goût de houblon prononcé. Palette: Légère amertume agréable en bouche. (Rating #19)

[829-20071108] 330mL. Aroma has a bit of metallic plasticky fish, a bit of straw, and a bit of sweet honey in the background. Clear, dark yellow body with a quick bubbly white head. Flavour has a sweet hint of light honey straw malt. Light-medium body has a little astringency. Would go well with seafood; nice sweet finish makes up for the smell... almost. (I like how they kept the old spelling for the beer name even though its namesake city had to change with the new conventions.)

This brew poured a small head of fine to large sized white colored mostly diminishing bubbles that left behind a transparent softly carbonated straw yellow colored body and a minimal lace. The aroma was a very mild malt hop one. The mouthfeel was tingly and bubbly from its start to its finish. The flavor was a typical malt hop one with a little bite and bitterness.