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Kirin Tanrei Alpha Happoshu Beer
Kirin Brewery Company, Limited
- From:
- Kirin Brewery Company, Limited
- Japan
- Style:
- Happoshu
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- Needs more ratings
- Avg:
- 1.93 | pDev: 3.63%
- Reviews:
- 2
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 14, 2006
- Added:
- Aug 07, 2003
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Naerhu from Japan
1.86/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
1.86/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
99% cut in purine
60% cut in sugars
Less than 25% malt
Ingredients: Malt, hops, wheat, sugar, yeast extract, aroma, caramel color.
Purine apparently causes gout, so if the beer cuts the purine content, it will decrease you chances of suffering from gout.
A - Yellow body with pure white thin head.
S - Smells like bread crust from cheap wheat bread.
T - Dry, absolutely no bitterness, bland malty flavor, odd caramel-like butter flavor on the finish.
D - This is hard to choke down. If I had gout and my only option was giving up beer or drinking this, I would give up beer.
Feb 14, 200660% cut in sugars
Less than 25% malt
Ingredients: Malt, hops, wheat, sugar, yeast extract, aroma, caramel color.
Purine apparently causes gout, so if the beer cuts the purine content, it will decrease you chances of suffering from gout.
A - Yellow body with pure white thin head.
S - Smells like bread crust from cheap wheat bread.
T - Dry, absolutely no bitterness, bland malty flavor, odd caramel-like butter flavor on the finish.
D - This is hard to choke down. If I had gout and my only option was giving up beer or drinking this, I would give up beer.
Reviewed by donnebaby from North Carolina
2/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.5
2/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.5
This Tanrei Alpha just came out--and they're managed it seems to bring the 90% less level of "purine" (from the previous review of this beer) down to an amazing 99%!! I'm fired up about this, although I, too, have no idea what in the world purine is. There's a market for it in Japan, apparently, and I dream to some day get to the bottom of the matter.
Clear-looking, empty-looking gold color, with a poor turnout on the bubbles. Sort of wet-smelling, hard to find anything worthy of words. The taste is pretty flavorful in the mouth--sweet grains--but there's an awful synthetic aftertaste, which really drops the drinkability for me.
Apr 22, 2004Clear-looking, empty-looking gold color, with a poor turnout on the bubbles. Sort of wet-smelling, hard to find anything worthy of words. The taste is pretty flavorful in the mouth--sweet grains--but there's an awful synthetic aftertaste, which really drops the drinkability for me.
Kirin Tanrei Alpha Happoshu Beer from Kirin Brewery Company, Limited
Beer rating:
1.93 out of
5 with
2 ratings
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