Tsingtao

Brewed by Tsingtao Brewery
Style: Premium Lager
Qinqdao, China

Bottle. Not too shabby for an asian pijiu. Pours pale yellow w/little bitty head. Aroma is malty, kind of watery taste but decent if very cold and matches spicy chinese food of course.

0.33 l bottle. My first beer from the east. Poured clear golden body with medium smaller head going down pretty fast. Aroma is quite strong, malty, some bread hops, too. Flavor is bitterish, quite light bodied and leaves watery impression. It is however different than other lagers I’ve tried, still it’s not from Europe... Medium carbonated, has average long and bitter finish with some very slight sourness. Goes down smoothly. Not necessary bad, but still in the array of very average or below.

Yellow pour with extremely small, white head. Malty, almost in the same vein as a Heineken. Not bad.

If you can find a bottle that hasn’t been blasted to death by fluorescent light then it is actually quite good. Nothing memorable but all in all a pretty refreshing beer. Standard lager here, which isn’t a bad thing. It seems about half of their product gets skunky before it reaches the consumer though, so beware!

Nothing terrible about this beer, just nothing outstanding. Clean like Heineken without the bite on the finish. Other than that, nothing to write home about.

Yellow to clear, light, white thin head, only slightly hoppy in aroma and flavor, slight hint of sweetness and malt, a nice balance, refreshing, a bit lacking in complexity and flavor for me.

bottle. had a skunky smell but taste wasnt all that bad. probably wouldnt try it again though.

smells fairly gross and the palate is quite awful. But it’s one of those beers that isn’t very bad when you’re eating, but not something to look forward to really. China has many better beers.