Honkaku Karakuchi Mugi
Kirin Brewery Company, Limited
- From:
- Kirin Brewery Company, Limited
- Japan
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.19 | pDev: 4.39%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 06, 2015
- Added:
- Dec 11, 2010
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by 1mctous from Georgia
3.11/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.11/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
I can't imagine a better happoshu. Its non-malt character made itself clear in the pour and the sake-like rice and wheat aroma. Fortunately it tastes better than it smells. Kirin has done great work blending the grains, and it feels light but with alcohol in the finish.
Sep 06, 2015
Reviewed by sommersb from Tennessee
3.34/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.34/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Tasted On: 04-21-2013
Freshness: Best by 07-2013
Packaging: 12 oz. can
Glassware: Perfect pint
Purchased: Received in a trade
A big thanks goes out to HopFace for getting this from a friend in Japan. Happoshu is my last style to review, #104 after nearly 3 years on BA!
A: The beer is clear and pale golden in color, with a big offwhite head of 3+ fingers. Head retention is very good and lacing is pretty good as well.
S: Clean aromas are of sweet malts and corn, plus grassy hop notes. Smells much like a macro lager.
T: Taste is slightly sweet and bready with a low accompanying bitterness.
M: Mouthfeel is crisp, with medium-high carbonation levels and a light body. Finishes dry with a light bitter taste.
O: Overall I found this to be an enjoyable light-tasting lager. Not big on flavor, but served well as a thirst quencher.
Apr 21, 2013Freshness: Best by 07-2013
Packaging: 12 oz. can
Glassware: Perfect pint
Purchased: Received in a trade
A big thanks goes out to HopFace for getting this from a friend in Japan. Happoshu is my last style to review, #104 after nearly 3 years on BA!
A: The beer is clear and pale golden in color, with a big offwhite head of 3+ fingers. Head retention is very good and lacing is pretty good as well.
S: Clean aromas are of sweet malts and corn, plus grassy hop notes. Smells much like a macro lager.
T: Taste is slightly sweet and bready with a low accompanying bitterness.
M: Mouthfeel is crisp, with medium-high carbonation levels and a light body. Finishes dry with a light bitter taste.
O: Overall I found this to be an enjoyable light-tasting lager. Not big on flavor, but served well as a thirst quencher.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.32/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
3.32/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
Brought back from Japan by a friend of mine - he said that this was the newest thing, beer-wise, in the land of the rising sun and ever chintzier malt bills...
This dai-san (near beer) pours a clear pale straw colour, with lots of effervescent rising bubbles, leading to three fingers of thin foamy eggshell-white head, which settles relatively quickly, leaving a few streaks of sticky, filmy lace around the glass. It smells of a somewhat strange grainy, musty wheatiness, and dry citrus rind. The taste is more of the same mild grainy wheat, some very soft hay, and a lessened citrus component. Quite simple, on the whole. The carbonation is moderate, the body light, mostly smooth, and with a touch of alcohol burn. It finishes clean and dry, dry, dry - in fact, I don't think I got much of anything sweet in the whole deal.
'Honkaku Karakuchi Mugi' apparently translates to 'dry tasting wheat', and thus Kirin pretty much nails it. Given that there is a perceptible wheat character, and no off-putting flavours, it's easy to see this being quite popular, given its presentation, price-friendly tax status, and full booze strength.
Dec 11, 2010This dai-san (near beer) pours a clear pale straw colour, with lots of effervescent rising bubbles, leading to three fingers of thin foamy eggshell-white head, which settles relatively quickly, leaving a few streaks of sticky, filmy lace around the glass. It smells of a somewhat strange grainy, musty wheatiness, and dry citrus rind. The taste is more of the same mild grainy wheat, some very soft hay, and a lessened citrus component. Quite simple, on the whole. The carbonation is moderate, the body light, mostly smooth, and with a touch of alcohol burn. It finishes clean and dry, dry, dry - in fact, I don't think I got much of anything sweet in the whole deal.
'Honkaku Karakuchi Mugi' apparently translates to 'dry tasting wheat', and thus Kirin pretty much nails it. Given that there is a perceptible wheat character, and no off-putting flavours, it's easy to see this being quite popular, given its presentation, price-friendly tax status, and full booze strength.
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