Tsingtao

Brewed by Tsingtao Brewery
Style: Premium Lager
Qinqdao, China

Serve in Lager glass

Bottle. 4,5%. Pours pale yellow with a short lasting white head. Aroma is citrusy hoppy. Flavour is equally citrusy hoppy with an occasional note of baking yeast - not very nice.

I must say that when I purchased this, I was a little distraught that it had modernised its retro label after a few decades of the old bland and yet homely font. Poured into a tall stein. Clear pale straw with a lot of irregular carbonation failing to raise any head past a bubbly ring. Slightly skunky, sour lemon and freshly mowed grass nose with a little haystack chaff. Lemonade and chardonnay white wine flavours in the mouth, very clean, light bodied and quite lively in carbonation. Finish is a little clammy, reminiscent of lemon concentrate. Very low grassy hop tones seem to assist the sour malt flavours, rather than alter them. Very light in flavour, clean and crisp, there was nothing really disagreeable about this one, and I suppose it has its place on a sunny Sunday when the grass is getting long. Thirst quencher and little else!!! (33cL bottle, 4.5% ABV, BBE 06/06)

From bottle. Strong smell of farts as I opened the bottle, very strong yeasty aroma. Very clear yellow uirne like appearance. No head, high carb. Sweet, noty as gassy as expected, like water with a hint of lager flavour. Typical lager after taste. Did the job after work.

Although it is slightly bitter, and I like bitter, this is a fairly watery brew with little to recommed it. It would be inoffensive with dinner in a chinese restaurant.

Bad, bad aroma and flavour I think fanta is much better.

Nose is pretty much water, tastes very dry and crisp with a hint of residual sweetness.

Bottle at Chan’s. And you know what they say...when in rome...Pale yellow, white head that fades. Frat house beer aroma with a cooked corn DMS note. Thin and lifeless pale malts with little hops. Distinct note of Formaldehyde. ;-)

Color is a pale to clear yellow with a small white head, some very small tight lacing. Smell is faintly sweet and some grain as in bread thats soft in the back. Taste is clean and sweet with a grainy backing thats lightly bread-like and finishes with a small bitter hop bit that drys slightly. Feel is light, crisp, and clean with a sweetning thats light and finishes slightly dry and bitter from hop. This was very refreshing to have with my mildly spicey thai food. Would settle for this over many other Asian imports.