 motelpogo (4111), Plzen, Czech Republic
Jul 10, 2008 500ml can. pale golden with a quickly diminishing head. aroma of vanilla malt and hay. perhaps slightly more hop character than most japanese lagers, lightly grassy but no real bitterness
BarossaLuke (15), Australia
May 20, 2008 Quite typical of Japanese lager beers. Yebisu is the premium Sapporo brand and "The Hop" is a new product. However I can’t really get the hops in it. There is not stand out hop aroma on the nose and the palate while clean and refreshing is pretty similar to most Japanese beers. this beer uses Saaz hops according to the website, I guess they are going for a Bohemian style lager.
douglas88 (707), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Apr 23, 2008 Can thanks to rayg1. Pours a clear and light gold with a frothy white head. The aroma is sweet malt. The flavor is also dominated by malts and a grassy flavor, but there is some hops in there. But if your gonna call it ’the hop’ how about using a bit of hops? Anyway, it was not bad. Cool green can.
BelgianBeerGal (883), Sabbatical in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Mar 22, 2008 Canned. Orange/gold colour with a small white head. No real lacing. Clean, citrus aroma but not much hop. A "different" hop flavour...not strong, not bitter, not much of anything. Very light hop characteristics for something called "The Hop".
rayg1 (404), Ft. Mill, South Carolina, USA
Feb 18, 2008 Pours a clear golden yellow. I’m excited about this one, perhaps I’ve found the first Japanese example of anything close to an American IPA or Pale Ale. Aroma is slightly hoppy, for once, after being subjected to a million pale lagers in Okinawa. The taste unfortunatley reveals that alas, this really nothing more than a slightly more hopped pale lager and really only affected the aroma of the beer and not really the flavor.
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