Asahi Honnama

Canned. Clear, gold colour. Medium white, foamy head that dissovled with slight lacing. Small bubbly carbonation. Very light aroma with little hops. Crisp clean flavour that was very light: watery. Quick finish with little bitterness.

Can: Pale gold color, thin head and lacing. Nose is slightly tinny with something I wouldn’t call malt, but some might. It’s a thin and flavorless brew, some very light hop notes in the finish, but a domination of happoshu all through it. God, Happoshus are aweful, why am I doing this to myself?

i really do not know about happo-shu; whatever... not so smooth, not so tasty; i mean, my tastes are different--yeah.

Pours clear golden with a large, foamy white head. Aroma was swet malt. Thin, bubbly mouth. Taste is metallic at first, then fading into a very light malt. Crisp, and refreshing, but completely lacking in the taste arena. Meh.

Clear golden yellow color. White foamy head. Thin, weak, sour corn aroma with almost no trace of malt. Similarly thin flavors of corn, rice. Very watery. Not so good.

Officially, according to Japanese law, this is not real beer due to the low amount of malt in it. Its a "happushu". Thin straw colour. The aroma ´has an uncomfortable metallic touch mixed with some malty-thing. Flavour is waterish, bit sour and quite unpleasent. Nasty but cheap compared to the real beers.

Canned, pours a very thin extremely pale yellow. Metallic taste at first, fades into a urine flavored seltzer water at the end. To be avoided at all costs. A more reasonable choice would be anti-freeze.

A clear golden color with white head. Starchy smell, sweet but tinny tasting. Not one I’d seek out but fair enough to wash wasabi out of your mouth. Did a side by side of this vs. Sapporo’s "Winter Tale", this was better but not by much