Koshihikari Echigo Beer
Uehara Shuzou Co. Ltd. / Echigo Beer Pub

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I picked this up at the local asian market. A nice lager for sure, better than your typical run of the mill Saporros. Crisp, light and a bit on the sweet side but nothing overboard. This would be a great beer paired with sushi.

350ml can - Super H Mart in Doraville, Georgia.

00353 indecipherable code stamped on the bottom of the can.

Appearance: Pours an ultra clean, clear body with a light yellow hue and a sudsy layer of white foam.

Smell: Aromatic rice, light barley with little cereal sweetness and trace hints of hops and fruitiness.

Taste: Gentle tones of rice and barley gain a squeeze of kitchen lemon. Relatively low level of bitterness. Though there is a kiss of initial sweetness, it slowly skews drier and drier as you reach the finish.

Mouthfeel: Light-bodied. Medium carbonation.

Overall: A likeable rice lager.

brown 12 oz bottle. poured into a 16 oz mason jar.

look: clear honey orange. 2 inch, white head fades quickly, leaving some lacing.

Smell: slight hops and malt, very slight citrus

taste: well blended flavors of hops, malts, and grains. hint of sweetness, but more on the dry side.

feel: medium carbonation. crisp, clean, refreshing. light to medium bodied.

overall: an amazingly good beer by any measure. kind of like budweiser done correctly. If it were as easy to get as budweiser, then I would convert for sure!.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pours from the can clear and gold. Thin foaming. Light aroma, only a faint hint of toasted brown rice. Crisp, finishes clean. Enjoyable, if unremarkable.

 

 

This one pours a clear pale yellow color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like crisp and clean malt, floral hops, and maybe a touch of lemon.

This is surprisingly solid, with a really crisp dryness to it. There’s crackery malt, and a nice light floral hop character. It’s not mind-blowingly flavorful, but it’s certainly well done.

This is really crisp and really drinkable. It’s just well brewed all around.

I don’t really have this style often, but it seems to be well done.

Out of a can into a shaker glass

Look: Pale yellow gold with a thick white head. As a lager like this should look.

Smell: Bready toasted malt, clean floral hops, fruity lager yeast.

Taste: Color me impressed. This has a very nice depth of flavor. Bready malt, toasted rice, floral noble hops, fruity lager yeast. Really pops.

Feel: Here is the one glaring fault. It’s not as crisp as it should be. Medium body that has depth instead of snap. Fine carbonation. No alcohol. Mild plus bitterness.

Overall: A rice lager with a ton of intresting depth of flavor just lacking that crisp lager note that would really set this over.

 

11.2 oz bottle

Pours clear golden, white lacing.

Aroma of light rice and cereal malts.

Flavor is of rice malt and fresh grassy malt.

Light body, fizzy carbonation on the tongue.

Bright, refreshing rice lager. The flavor is distinct from some of the other well known Japanese lagers. Worth a try if you can get it.

 

I really like this beer. It needs to be fresh and cold.

 

This is the best tasting (and most expensive) Japanese beer I've ever had. I bought it in a bottle form at a Chinese supermarket. Compared to typical American craft beers, this beer has little bitterness, but to my personal palate, it has the perfect balance of sweetness, acidity, and bitterness. It has a strong malty aroma with good hops. I love it.

 

 

 

 

 

Look: Very clear pale yellow. Very small white head that quickly reduces to a ring, then nothing.

Smell: Virtually nothing.

Taste: Extremely mild malt with a tiny hint of rice.

Mouthfeel: Carbonated water.

Overall: Like beer-flavored water.

 

 

 

Quite dull for a Japanese rice lager. I barely like it better than the Asahi I had & considering that I paid $9.99 for a pint this beer has probably been sitting on the shelf for months on end maybe even over a year. I would not pay $9.99 for this again. Orion Premium Draft Beer is a much better choice in this style. I am not going to knock this beer too hard because I don't think that I am drinking it at its full potential since it is sort of old. A little malty, a little flavorful, the body is on the thin side. I recommend that you try this beer out if you are into pale lagers. Cheers! B-