Echigo Pilsner
Echigo Beer Company Limited

Echigo PilsnerEchigo Pilsner
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From:
Echigo Beer Company Limited
 
Japan
Style:
German Pilsner
Ranked #589
ABV:
5%
Score:
76
Ranked #27,292
Avg:
3.15 | pDev: 18.73%
Reviews:
13
Ratings:
29
Status:
Active
Rated:
Apr 04, 2023
Added:
Jun 25, 2003
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  8
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Ratings by donnebaby:
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Reviewed by donnebaby from North Carolina

3.89/5  rDev +23.5%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
This beer comes in an impressive gold can with the Echigo drinking goat emblem on it. They advertise being the first microbrewery in Japan as well. Ingredients are malt and hops (says its 100% malt and uses Czech aromatic hops).

Besides the cool can though, this beer disappoints utterly lacking head, coming through only with the dark yellow color. Sweet, syrupy malty smell doesn't disappoint however and is the highlight of this beer for me.

The taste is pilsener, no doubt--with a real good punch of hops both in the mouth and afterwards. Mouthfeel is OK, with solid initial carbonation which quickly fades. There's also a nice well under-control roasted grain taste, which adds to rather than dominating the palate, which I've noticed in a few other try-hard Japanese "premium" offerings.

Well-balanced beer. This is a good pilsener!
Mar 14, 2004
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 4.02 by The_Kriek_Freak from Pennsylvania

Apr 04, 2023
 
Rated: 3.25 by BeerWasp from Germany

Jan 21, 2023
 
Rated: 3.25 by mpenske from California

Jul 20, 2019
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Reviewed by snaotheus from Washington

2.96/5  rDev -6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2019-03-28
350ml can served in a snifter. Brought back from Japan by a coworker. BB/10 20190422.

Pours clear golden with a smallish head and not much carbonation. Smell is malt and sweetness.

Taste is malt, moderate sourness, moderate crispness.

Mouthfeel is thick, sticky. Overall...it's OK for a pilsner, bordering on malt-liquor sweetness.
Mar 29, 2019
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Reviewed by monkist from Hungary

3.06/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
The classification is right, it is a German Pilsner, it lacks the flowery hoppiness of the Czech Lezák, instead it is bitter and uninteresting. The appeal is that it was made in Japan with perhaps much more attention to detail than the German original, resulting in a good quality beer - though not my favorite type, still enjoyable.
Dec 22, 2018
 
Rated: 3.08 by TheCrowsEye from California

Dec 18, 2017
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Reviewed by flyingpig from Scotland

2.46/5  rDev -21.9%
look: 4 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
350ml Can from Liquor Mountain, Kyoto, Japan (¥246):
Very disappointing stuff from Echigo, I was expecting a lot more from this one given the fact that their 90 Days Stout wasn't all that bad. The beer was incredibly basic & at times cheap tasting with a combination of basic vegetable adjuncts & grain dominating for long parts of this one; there was at least some citrus & the odd biscuit malt but not much else really. Some subtle sweetness rounded this one off but I can't imagine it's a beer I'd ever try again.
Oct 18, 2017
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Reviewed by Ciocanelu from Romania

2.5/5  rDev -20.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Clear golden color with white head. Aroma has some sweet malt and damp grains. Taste has damp grains and wet cardboard. Light and dry body. Quite bad lager.
Oct 13, 2016
 
Rated: 2.5 by ThisSeasonsWaifu from Sweden

Jul 17, 2016
 
Rated: 4.25 by RochefortChris from North Carolina

Jun 11, 2016
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Rated by JiuJitsuJustin from Minnesota

2.75/5  rDev -12.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
It was good. Nothing amazing, but still a beer I'd recommend trying.
Jun 08, 2015
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Rated by kofukasho from Japan

2.64/5  rDev -16.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
As a regular drinker of their excellent Red Ale, I expected a bit more from this Pilsner.
Apr 17, 2015
 
Rated: 3.24 by Poupae from Thailand

Mar 04, 2015
 
Rated: 4.12 by hakaiya from Japan

Nov 26, 2014
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Reviewed by The_Mad_Capper from Japan

2.98/5  rDev -5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
In the aroma is an earthy graininess, along with some light peach and grape. Pours a frothy, bubbly white head with a clear, bright golden body. The flavor is mildly spicy and herbal with soft, cereal-like malt; a stalky bitterness lingers through to the finish. The body is fairly light with considerable carbonation and a light crispness; a slight chalky texture lingers.

The overall impression is one of grainy sweetness with a persistent sour and bitter fruitiness. The latter quality mitigates somewhat over time but still keeps this one from being especially enjoyable.
Oct 12, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by BigCheese from Massachusetts

Jul 12, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by buzzy from Pennsylvania

Jan 26, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by intoxabroad from Taiwan

Jun 12, 2013
 
Rated: 3.5 by TokyoCO from Colorado

Jun 03, 2013
Echigo Pilsner from Echigo Beer Company Limited
Beer rating: 76 out of 100 with 29 ratings