Tsingtao

Brewed by Tsingtao Brewery
Style: Premium Lager
Qinqdao, China

Serve in Lager glass

For no particular reason, except perhaps the labelling on bottle itself, i’ve held off drinking this beer for quite a few years. Aroma of rice and pale malts with a slight hint of sweetness. Pours a bubbly pale gold body with white foam and lace. Flavour is refreshing, smooth, with some light hop character. More palatable and flavoursome than your typical export lager, particularly coming in nicely sized 640mL bottles.

Bottle. Not too shabby for an asian pijiu. Pours pale yellow w/little bitty head. Aroma is malty, kind of watery taste but decent if very cold and matches spicy chinese food of course.

Looks clear and pale golden in the glass. Light and a bit sparkling mouthfeel. A quite common lager. OK, but not a unforgettable one.

Poured from bottle, very little head, but decent lacing. Pale yellow color. Not a lot of flavor, some spice, some sweetness, maybe lemon? It actually goes really well with spicy Chinese food...Wouldnt want to drink it alone though.

into pint, had at a chinese restaurant. Was not bad, better than most macros, and went well with the food, served its purpose as a sessionable companion to the food.

typical and thin. Jackson’s Great Beer Guide lists this, but I suspect it’s as much to include offerings from nations all over than any serious contribution from this ordinairy offering.

0.33 l bottle. My first beer from the east. Poured clear golden body with medium smaller head going down pretty fast. Aroma is quite strong, malty, some bread hops, too. Flavor is bitterish, quite light bodied and leaves watery impression. It is however different than other lagers I’ve tried, still it’s not from Europe... Medium carbonated, has average long and bitter finish with some very slight sourness. Goes down smoothly. Not necessary bad, but still in the array of very average or below.

If you can find a bottle that hasn’t been blasted to death by fluorescent light then it is actually quite good. Nothing memorable but all in all a pretty refreshing beer. Standard lager here, which isn’t a bad thing. It seems about half of their product gets skunky before it reaches the consumer though, so beware!