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Brewed by Tsingtao Brewery
Style: Premium Lager
Qinqdao, China
Serve in Lager glass

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RATINGS: 1278   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.08   EST. CALORIES: 144   ABV: 4.8%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Tsingtao Beer has a pleasant aroma and a well-balanced taste. It has high-malty flavor and well-hopped character. Tsingtao is produced with spring water from Laoshan, a mountain area famous throughout China for the purity of its water. The domestically-grown hops used to brew Tsingtao are of such high quality that they are also exported to European breweries. Tsingtao also uses the finest yeast and barley imported from Australia and Canada in its brewing process.

NOTE: Under this entry, rate ONLY exported Tsingtao that roughly matches the ABV and local Tsingtao that matches it completely. If it differs in any way and doesn’t match the other entries under the brewer, please send in a bug report with the alcohol percentage, degrees plato (important!), the GTIN and preferably a link to a picture of both the front and the back label so that we can set up an entry.

2.4
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
porterhouse (1479) - Alna, Maine, USA - APR 25, 2011
(From numerous samples while in Qingdao, including at the brewery) Yellow-gold appearance with small white head. Bread, corn, light skunk aroma. Corn sweetness, lightly bready flavor. A slight bit above a typical macro pale.

2.4
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 8/20
STEPHENDR (478) - California, USA - AUG 20, 2006
Light yellow – white head –bubble gum, grass, hay nose- taste yeast, slightly malty- creamy medium body –aftertaste frothy, crisp

2.4
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 10/20
unibaren (151) - 8000 Århus C, DENMARK - JUL 5, 2007
Light buttery aroma with hints of malt and hops. Very pale colour with averege head and carbonation (for a pilsner that is). Light fresh taste, with some hops in the aftertaste. An ok (chinese) euro-pilsner, that would have been very boring had it not been for the halfway decent hoppy aftertaste.

2.4
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
Soonah (1120) - Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA - MAY 19, 2007
Pour was a crystal clear light golden color with a thin, soapy white head that left no lacing. Really rough aroma initially. Really acidic, almost cat piss like aroma comes through with the pour. Goes away as it opens up, but it’s extremely off putting. The flavor is a mild, sweet malt and a bit of yeast. Not terrible. Sweet finish that tried like hell to make up for the bad first impression the aroma gave me.

2.4
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
JAF737300 (1183) - Chicago, Illinois, USA - NOV 13, 2006
OK, chinese piss water. This is what they drink and complain about like we do with Miller Lite. If it is free, I;ll drink it, if I have to buy it....I’ll try the sake.

2.4
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
xnoxhatex (1305) - Grand Rapids/Chicago, Michigan, USA - DEC 17, 2007
21.6 oz bottle at a chinese restaurant in SB. Aroma is light but pure premium lager yeast. A surprisingly not unappetizing flavor, dry and lagery, much better than most American macros, it doesn’t have that corniness that you often find. Medium bodied and smooth (not crisp). It was a little less than half bad.

2.4
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
Skidds (252) - Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA - AUG 7, 2008
I like this one more than I thought I would. Tasted perfect with the spicy Vietnamese cuisine at the restaurant. It has all the normal lager characteristics, but it is a lot more sweet than the typical lager. Interesting.

2.4
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
thehurt01 (251) - Denver, Colorado, USA - JAN 31, 2007
A 12 oz bottle with no born on or freshness date, but some cool Chinese righting on it. The beer poured a golden body with a two finger white head. The smell is of rice and grain. The taste is mild and bitter. Good carbonation and clean mouth taste.


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