Tsingtao

Brewed by Tsingtao Brewery
Style: Premium Lager
Qinqdao, China

Serve in Lager glass

Good beer to drink when you are at a Chinese restaurant. It's light and kind of watery. It's also sweet and malty. It's only worth drinking at a chinese restaurant.

Bottle - more malty aroma than expected. Maybe just a touch of skunk, but barely noticeable. Very pale yellow body with a thinnish white head that is quickly gone. Very BMC-ish appearance. Mild flavor, but there is some flavor there. Much like an Imperial BMC. Inoffensive. Decent.

Pretty much the Budweiser of China. Light Yellow pour with rapidly declining head. Palate is weak. Not bad overall, but not great.

chinese heineken. not good, but not terrible; it would benefit from a brown bottle instead of green. best with spicy chinese food!

Bottle. Pours a lovely pale gold with a very small and ephemeral head. After just a couple of seconds I’m wondering if it was even ever there. Aromas of skunky hops assault me from a distance and closer inspection confirms that these are burying any other odors except for a few whiffs of apple juice that are scurrying for the exit doors. Flavor is poor... a bit of apple juice, some adjuncty-lagery malt and those damn hops seem to have fled while the getting was good. I’m not sure about this "spring water from Laoshan." I don’t really know if it added anything, and I’m begining to think it might be a simple marketing trick... Even so, if they handed these out for free at work I’d probably drink another.

I wonder if this style of beer is easy to produce. I ask because it appears all over the world in a variety of guises, from North America, Europe, South Africa, Australasia and South Asia, all tasting very similar to one another. This one’s not bad.

Bottle. My alternate preferred brew for when we go out for Asian cuisine (I go for Kirin first). As with the Kirin, not a great beer, but nothing horribly bad either. This is an average beer that goes well with dinner.

A Mes rate: From a Chinese Restaurant in Crouch End. Yes. I kid you not. Much better than expected. Too much carb. Cereal chunkyness about it. Clearly thats the wrong word. There is nothing chunky about this. Refreshing and drinkable. Will probably only ever drink this again if it is free and there is nothing else...