Pabst Blue Ribbon (China)
Guangdong Blue Ribbon Group
- From:
- Guangdong Blue Ribbon Group
- China
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
- ABV:
- 3.3%
- Score:
- 69
- Avg:
- 2.08 | pDev: 27.4%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 30, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 18, 2011
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
69
Poor
69
Poor
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Reviewed by beijingbrewer from China
2.68/5 rDev +28.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.68/5 rDev +28.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Had in Beijing.
500ml can poured into a pint glass.
Born on date: 5/23/13.
ABV: 4.3%
Ingredients list water, barely, rice hops.
A- Pours a big soapy head that dissipates quickly. Light Straw-yellow color.
S- Rice, metal. Not much going on here.
T- The faintest hint of bready malts gets washed away by rice and finishes with a watery metallic taste. The after taste is a bit fruity, like green apples and pears.
M- Thin, but there's a juicy center that manages to pop out before prickly carbonation whisks it off the palate.
This version licensed to Guangdong Blue Ribbon Group is a bit lighter than it's American counterpart. The fruity finish and high carbonation make it quite refreshing in the hot Beijing summer.
Jul 26, 2013500ml can poured into a pint glass.
Born on date: 5/23/13.
ABV: 4.3%
Ingredients list water, barely, rice hops.
A- Pours a big soapy head that dissipates quickly. Light Straw-yellow color.
S- Rice, metal. Not much going on here.
T- The faintest hint of bready malts gets washed away by rice and finishes with a watery metallic taste. The after taste is a bit fruity, like green apples and pears.
M- Thin, but there's a juicy center that manages to pop out before prickly carbonation whisks it off the palate.
This version licensed to Guangdong Blue Ribbon Group is a bit lighter than it's American counterpart. The fruity finish and high carbonation make it quite refreshing in the hot Beijing summer.
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
2.92/5 rDev +40.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
2.92/5 rDev +40.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
This arrived in my latest package from EinWeizenBitte, a frequent traveler and trader who supports The CANQuest (TM). I have added it because it was manufactured by a different company than the one that falls under the Woodbridge, IL umbrella. The CAN sports Chinese characters, also.
From the CAN: "Established in Milwaukee 1844"; "This is the ORIGINAL Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. Nature's choicest products provide its prized flavor. Only the finest of hops and grains are used. Selected as America's Best in 1893." The rest was all Chinese characters.
No Crack & Glug as this was a pop top, reinforcing my opinion that this is a separate beer from anything made in America. I'll tell you, though, pulling a pop top tab really took me back. My late Pops worked at ALCOA for years and made a lot of pop top CANs on the machine to which he was assigned. I got two fizzy, foamy fingers of bone-white head off of my pour but it fell faster than I could type. Color was a pale lemon-yellow with NE-quality clarity. Nose was what I have come to expect from the style - a lager sweetness adulterated with adjuncts, especially corn. The bottom line is that corn has NO business in beer! I have had corn likker before and that is fine, but please, not in my beer. Mouthfeel was thin and watery and it tasted like mildly hopped water that might have come out of a CAN of corn. I hate to be cynical, but this was just one more in an unending line of the same old, same old. Have the Chinese no shame? Have I no shame? The finish left me glad to be finished with it.
Dec 18, 2011From the CAN: "Established in Milwaukee 1844"; "This is the ORIGINAL Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. Nature's choicest products provide its prized flavor. Only the finest of hops and grains are used. Selected as America's Best in 1893." The rest was all Chinese characters.
No Crack & Glug as this was a pop top, reinforcing my opinion that this is a separate beer from anything made in America. I'll tell you, though, pulling a pop top tab really took me back. My late Pops worked at ALCOA for years and made a lot of pop top CANs on the machine to which he was assigned. I got two fizzy, foamy fingers of bone-white head off of my pour but it fell faster than I could type. Color was a pale lemon-yellow with NE-quality clarity. Nose was what I have come to expect from the style - a lager sweetness adulterated with adjuncts, especially corn. The bottom line is that corn has NO business in beer! I have had corn likker before and that is fine, but please, not in my beer. Mouthfeel was thin and watery and it tasted like mildly hopped water that might have come out of a CAN of corn. I hate to be cynical, but this was just one more in an unending line of the same old, same old. Have the Chinese no shame? Have I no shame? The finish left me glad to be finished with it.
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