Zhujiang Draft Beer 10° (Cold Draft)

Bottle. Head is initially small, fizzy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is medium yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (grain, cereal), lightly hoppy (herbs, flowers), with light notes of DMS and soap. Flavor is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately bitter, slightly unclean. Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. This beer explodes! with taste of specialty. and glory. Make with joy you important ! Make Draft!

Bottled. beer is clear, brassy gold. Head is initially fizzy/frothy, white and diminishes rapidly.<P> The aroma is malty with light notes of husky toasted grain, Cheerios; Hoppy with a light grassy herbal note, trace of pine; Yeasty with a trace of dough; Light amount of corny DMS.<P> The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly bitter, lightly acidic with a long, dirty, lightly sweet finish tainted with squeaky metallic aftertastes.<P> The body is light, the texture is watery and the carbonation is fizzy.

First beer from China. Smells like the men’s room floor at Old Comiskey park in Chicago. Well carbonated and deep yellow color. Watery flavor with just a hint of grain and citrus at the end.

(Canned 11/2005, sampled 12/2006, "Quality period 270 days") Clear, pale yellow color with practically no head. Aroma of sweet, honey-fruity, toffeeish malt and yeast. Hops have disappeared, maybe since it’s a few months over BBE - or maybe they simply weren’t there to begin with. Corny, slightly sweet, smooth and quite clean flavor with very mild hops accent. Light-bodied, but not the most watery palate with balanced carbonation. A harmless and quite tasteless beer to drink with food - nothing more, nothing more. I guess the toffeeish character in the aroma is due to ageing, but it’s actually quite pleasant as such. Finally, a chinese beer to be aged in a cellar!;)

A healthy yellow color with a quickly dissapting white head. Almost no aroma, but a sharp crisp, slightly grassy flavor. Better than average for China