Pear Lager
Hokkaido Brewing

330 ml stubby bottle with pull top cap

pours a cloudy light yellow color with greenish tint with thin head. definitely has a big pear aroma. taste is sweet and a little tart. Almost more like a cider. nice flavor. thinner bodied.

Hokkaido Brewing "Pear Lager"
10.14 fl. oz. brown glass bottle coded "082119 TO. 9. 4. 7"

Notes via stream of consciousness: This is brewed with Yoichi pears. It's a hazy straw gold beneath a very short head of white foam that fades readily. The aroma is clearly of sweet pears, and nothing else. It's not as candy-like as some of the other beers that I've had from Hokkaido Brewing. The taste is as the aroma suggests it will be with little deviation. It's a little more actual fruit-like, and it has that edginess that pears have. There's no bitterness that I can find and yet it's not cloying. In fact, it dries better than some of their other beers. In the mouth it's medium-light in body and smooth with a very moderate carbonation level. Very nice.
Review #7,928

10.14oz stubby bottle into a teku. Cap says 08/21/01, so 5 months old.

Looks like champagne in the glass, though a duller body. Small white head shrinks to a ring, no lacing.

Aroma is of very overripe pears.

Fortunately, taste is the usual Hokkaido delicate fresh fruit flavored Happoshu. Nice light pear flavor, lightly sweet. No bite at all from the lager base.

Mouth medium, finish light and refreshing.

Overall, not my favorite offering from this brewery. Would be killer on a baking hot day.

this is a weird one alright. also drinking this during a heat wave in july. Its murky and basically looks like goya pear nectar. no head. basically no carb. it thickk. sugary. mildest tinge of hop and some alcohol flavor like in a magner’s cidre. the sweetness reduces a little over time. way too wasy to drink. dangerous.

 

10.14oz stubby bottle (cap stamped OB1903 200111) poured into a pokal glass at fridge temp 5% ABV. The beer pours hazy in a soft, green tinted yellow with nearly white head. The head recedes to a thin ring and leaves a few dots of lacing. The aroma is mild with sweet pear. The taste follows with semisweet pear and very little malt. No bitterness. The mouthfeel is thin bodied with average carbonation and a dry finish. No off flavors. Overall, enjoyable taste and feel. If I tried this blind & you told me it was a sparkling pear cider, I would not argue.

I am currently engaged in drinking (hopefully) refreshing fruited beers in the hopeless hope of beating the heat during the current heat wave. I spotted four stubby grenades in this series at The Beer Shoppe in Ardmore, PA & you better believe that I bought every one!

From the Bottle: "Brewed with Hokkaido Yoichi Pear".

The cap was an unusual Pull & Pop!, kind of akin to an early pop top beer tab. No church key required. I had one of my fave Pilsner/Lager glasses at the ready & I followed the Pop! of the cap with a slow, steady C-Line pour. It foamed up nicely to form just under two fingers of dense, fizzy, foamy, bone-white head with surprisingly good retention. It really hung in, even in the face of today's oppressive heat! Color was an oh-so-slightly-hazy Pale-Straw (SRM = 1 - 2). Nose was the real thing, very evocative of the pear tree in the upper lot. If the Lemon Lager seemed to taste slightly artificial, this was the real deal! It smelled like ripe pears, sliced for snacks. Mmm. I have always really liked eating FF&V, even when I was a child & adults marveled at my willingness to scarf & snarf. Yum. Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, not watery, but close. The taste was very much of pear, very dry, almost like a dry white wine, but sans the vinousness. Mmm. Finish remained dry, just the sort of thing that I really wanted on this sweltering day!