Raw Beer-Unfiltered
Tsingtao Brewery Co., Ltd.
- From:
- Tsingtao Brewery Co., Ltd.
- China
- Style:
- Helles
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.31 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 10, 2014
- Added:
- Mar 10, 2014
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Reviewed by pinyin from New York
4.31/5 rDev 0%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev 0%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Tsingtao's Raw Helles Lager.
Served only at the tap room inside of the brewery, and a few restaurants on Beer Street.
According to one of the brewmasters, this beer is only good for one day, as there is no preservatives and it is not bottled. Occasionally some restaurants on Beer Street will have smaller barrels of the Raw Lager, but it doesn't taste the same as the drafts served inside the taproom at the actual brewery.
Color is a golden yellow, with minimal head.
This is a very drinkable beer, not too heavy and packs a decent punch in the flavor department. One of if not the best German Style lagers I have ever had.
Another plus is that the tap room and brewery serve everything cold, and not room temperature like the local restaurants in the city do, because they are too cheap to refrigerate the bottles.
If you are in Qingdao, do yourself a favor and take the the tour of the brewery, and load up on their "Raw Unfiltered Beer".
The taproom at the brewery also has take out of their Raw Beer in 2 litre mini kegs for the price of 30RMB.
The barreled version downstairs in the tap room does taste slightly different than the version upstairs inside the actual brewery that you would taste on the tour. Even the coloring is slightly different. Which I suppose has to to do with the age and freshness of said offerings.
PRC beer purity laws dictate that all bottled beer must be clear and filtered, no cloudiness or yeast sediments.
We can thank the German occupation of Qingdao in the early 1900's for today's outdated laws and purity standards, or as some would say, watered down beer.
Mar 10, 2014Served only at the tap room inside of the brewery, and a few restaurants on Beer Street.
According to one of the brewmasters, this beer is only good for one day, as there is no preservatives and it is not bottled. Occasionally some restaurants on Beer Street will have smaller barrels of the Raw Lager, but it doesn't taste the same as the drafts served inside the taproom at the actual brewery.
Color is a golden yellow, with minimal head.
This is a very drinkable beer, not too heavy and packs a decent punch in the flavor department. One of if not the best German Style lagers I have ever had.
Another plus is that the tap room and brewery serve everything cold, and not room temperature like the local restaurants in the city do, because they are too cheap to refrigerate the bottles.
If you are in Qingdao, do yourself a favor and take the the tour of the brewery, and load up on their "Raw Unfiltered Beer".
The taproom at the brewery also has take out of their Raw Beer in 2 litre mini kegs for the price of 30RMB.
The barreled version downstairs in the tap room does taste slightly different than the version upstairs inside the actual brewery that you would taste on the tour. Even the coloring is slightly different. Which I suppose has to to do with the age and freshness of said offerings.
PRC beer purity laws dictate that all bottled beer must be clear and filtered, no cloudiness or yeast sediments.
We can thank the German occupation of Qingdao in the early 1900's for today's outdated laws and purity standards, or as some would say, watered down beer.
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