Yanjing 11º Premium

Brewed by Beijing Yanjing Brewery Co.
Style: Pale Lager
Beijing, China

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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330 ml green bottle with a green label, simply called "Yanjing Beer", in France. ABV was 4.5%. I presume this is the same beer. Pale golden colour, large fluffy head. Grassy aroma, not unlike Tsingtao and Heineken. Relatively dry pale lager flavour, not offensive.

Very thin, mgd like appearance, but lighter, a bit of reminded me of Sol, but Sol has more taste. I wouldn’t travel to China for this one.

12 oz can-pours a foamy white head, quickly dissipates. Color is clear yellow with plenty of effervescence. Aroma is grain. Taste is grain and a champagne taste and feel (of the inexpensive type).

12 oz. bottle -- Don’t bother. All I could think when I was drinking this weak, yellow, fizzy beer was that the Chinese must have as bad a taste in beer as many people here in the US. The flavor is fairly inoffensive, but has nothing to offer either. It pours with a thin, rapidly dissipating head. The commercial description claim of long-lasting foam is baffling. I guess they just made that up. And "sharp beer strength"? heh... right. Avoid it.

UPDATED: JAN 22, 2004 Well, I had this while I was avoiding SARS in Beijing. When you can get a half liter for 25 cents, you don't care what it tastes like. But it wasn't necessarily that bad. I would compare it to a very cheap american mega brew, like busch light. Unquestionably the best-run state owned enterprise in China.

Incredibly pale yellow color. I could read through this one. Obvious rice flavor with nothing really exciting to make me want to ever drink this again.

Very dry, no aftertaste at all, an interesting experience.

Pale, pale yellow; quickly fading head that was thick for about 30 seconds; nil on the nose. The first thing I tasted was corndogs. After that, corndogs is all I could think of.

this beer gave me a headache not the best beer from china. very bitter in taste. the taste also is very blan or plain. no head and lacing with this beer too.