Chang Beer (Domestic)
Cosmos Brewery (Thai Beverage Plc.)

Chang Beer (Domestic)Chang Beer (Domestic)
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From:
Cosmos Brewery (Thai Beverage Plc.)
 
Thailand
Style:
American Adjunct Lager
Ranked #151
ABV:
5%
Score:
67
Ranked #28,220
Avg:
2.85 | pDev: 22.11%
Reviews:
77
Ratings:
223
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 02, 2024
Added:
Dec 20, 2002
Wants:
  9
Gots:
  53
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Ratings by gos42:
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Rated by gos42 from New Jersey

3.5/5  rDev +22.8%

Mar 06, 2012
More User Ratings:
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Reviewed by MutuelsMark from Kentucky

3.61/5  rDev +26.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Very clear copper and color with a nice head on it. Very typical blogger nose and taste. Decent adjunct beer nothing to write home about but nothing or neither.
Mar 02, 2024
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Reviewed by ccoble

3.48/5  rDev +22.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Very refreshing. Pours a nice golden color with a tight frothy head. Nice lace on the glass. Sweet grassy nose with mild hops. Clean taste, nice balance of malt and hops.
Dec 09, 2023
 
Rated: 4.1 by JoshuaPerraton from Ireland

Oct 17, 2023
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Rated by AmeliaGoldstein115 from Connecticut

4.69/5  rDev +64.6%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Good solid beer with food also!
Sep 01, 2023
 
Rated: 3.75 by HabaJohnTheReal1 from Illinois

May 19, 2023
 
Rated: 3 by bundy462 from Texas

Feb 24, 2023
 
Rated: 2.4 by BeerWasp from Germany

Aug 28, 2022
 
Rated: 4.06 by beerrat from Virginia

Oct 31, 2021
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Reviewed by NiceTaps from New Jersey

2.94/5  rDev +3.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
12 ounce bottle in a tall curvy glass.

Clear golden color with active carbonation. Thin white cap, a few specks of lacing.

Aromas are wet grain, flowers and herbal mix, some funky skunk.

Herbal, rice, and elements of a sour in the flavor.

Light and sweet.

It complimented the spicy Tai food, so that’s something good.
Jun 20, 2021
 
Rated: 3.88 by Daneve76 from Australia

Jun 04, 2021
 
Rated: 2.99 by arini10 from Oregon

Jan 19, 2021
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Reviewed by milkshakebeersucks from Maryland

2/5  rDev -29.8%
look: 3 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Don’t know why I always expect something a bit more exotic when I pick up a beer from a distant country, even if it is a pale lager. And almost always end up disappointed. Here, the restrained aroma is vegetal; the sweetness from the rice is distracting enough that you forget about the hops (are there any hops grown in Thailand?) and the light bodied, passive palate gives way to a short lived finish. Rated to style (generously) rather than personal taste.
Oct 15, 2020
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Reviewed by elNopalero from Michigan

2.51/5  rDev -11.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.5
Another one I’ve somehow overlooked for ages.
Pours clear and fizzy, with a white cap that rapidly dissipates.
Musty aroma, like a memory of faded hops. Sweetish on the palate, with a quick finish. Blink and it’s gone.
Jul 03, 2020
 
Rated: 3.1 by chrishiker1409 from New York

Mar 06, 2020
 
Rated: 2.52 by morrowd3 from Vermont

Feb 22, 2020
 
Rated: 3.28 by BobsBrewReview from Missouri

Sep 13, 2019
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

2.97/5  rDev +4.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Yet another in the long running series of "how have I not reviewed this yet?" Chang is one of those beers I don't think I've ever drank when not eating Asian food.

Pours the industry standard yellow with ample clarity and a quickly dissolving head that goes up no higher than 1/3" but really settles into a 1/16" film soon thereafter the pour. The aroma is mostly just grain, but barley does seem to lead the way. Hoped for a bit of skunky lager to it, but I think the green bottle just made me optimistic because it wasn't there.

Taste is mild, mostly that watery barley sense, sometimes if you get the real hot shit (food wise) you can pull out a little noble like hop bite and bitterness out of it. Mouth feel is a very carbonated light beer like quality. Seems slightly heavier and less cut with rice or sweetness than Budweiser. Pretty similar stuff at the end of the day.

Ultimately, there is not a lot of substance to this beer, but parse it through the style, its kind of meant to go that way. I didn't find any off flavors, so temper your ratings, this isn't a beer you rage about, its a beer you have with food.
Aug 21, 2019
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Reviewed by chitoryu12 from Florida

2.79/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
Look: Clear gold with lots of visible carbonation. Two fingers of foamy white head with decent retention.

Smell: Skunked, as expected from the green bottle. Mild sweet malt behind it.

Taste: Corn malt with some skunk. Nothing else.

Mouthfeel: Watery and extremely carbonated.

Overall: As you could probably guess, yet another cheap macro lager.
Aug 21, 2019
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Rated by Nass from Florida

3.32/5  rDev +16.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
It taste like your typical Euro Pale Lager. I highly recommend this beer. Cheers! B-
Jul 09, 2019
Chang Beer (Domestic) from Cosmos Brewery (Thai Beverage Plc.)
Beer rating: 67 out of 100 with 223 ratings