Tsingtao

From bottle. I sometimes buy this on a chinese restaurant, ans always regrets. Why can’t I remember??

12 oz bottle. Pours pale yellow with almost no head. It has a crisp hop aroma. It tastes a little of cereal and hay with no skunky taste. This isn’t a bad beer but it is just another pale fizzy macro brewery lager.

Basic macro lager, a little fruity taste with plenty of corn and rice all over it, no real head. Had a chance to re-rate and while it’s drinkable enough it’s still below average.

Pours gold with thin white head. Smell is malty with hint of skunk. Pretty much a macro ale like you Bud or MGD. Drinkable, but not anything to get excited about.

The first "illegal" I had at an actual restaurant at Ocean City more than a decade ago...this one is going to be more professionally sampled...straw colored, almost "light" in its presentation--an effervescence helps offset thinness and the runny, weak head... yeasty bread dominates with the ping of Saaz hops as its butter--almost hints that something is amiss... presents a bland blanket of smoothness akin to water to the mouth, with little early or late that suggests this is a beer... such a light body leads to an almost phantom taste, a pilsneresque presence minus the snap of Eastern European brew... without really finding blemish, Tsing Tao finishes crisp but not sharp; one senses rice or corn int he tank here, but no skunk infiltrates... stays balanced throughout the 22 oz. bottle, never bitter or malty despite its aroma...

11.2 oz bottle. Dark yellow with no head. Almost no carbonation. Sickly sweet corn nose, malty. Sweet flavor, body is pretty dead. Meh.

Bottle from a local Thai restaurant. Pours a light yellow color with thin head. Aroma is light with notes of grass, wet hay, some light yeast hints of honey. Flavor is light as well with notes of grass, yeast, honey, slight floral hop notes toward finish. Generally light body with watery finish. Not bad for a pale lager.

The new fancy looking bottle makes this appear better but it’s not. The agressive pour still didn’t produce a cap that lasted more than 10 seconds. Nothing now. Pretty weak gold for colour but it is very clear. The aroma is mainly grains. Nothing offensive here as the smell seems fairly clean but it needs more and is just plain. Taste is pretty grainy with some nice bitterness on the finish but watery overall. Mouthfeel is decent with a foamy swish. Light bodied. Short lived mild bitter aftertaste. Reliable but boring.