Calpis Sour
Asahi Breweries Ltd

Welcome back to my New Russo-Japanese-Vietnamese-Chinese CANned Beer Sunday, CANrades (Week 754) (С новым русским-日本人-Tiếng Việt-中文 Пиво воскресное, товарищи (неделя 754)!

This CAN, as well as the next two, were brought back for me by a local acquaintance who routinely travels for work. He is a fellow beer person as well as a trivia buff & knows my predilection for beer in a CAN. He happily brings a few back for me in his travels since they are CANpact & lightweight, allowing him to put them in his checked baggage with little fear of breakage. I added them as needed, took & resized the approved pics & then just kind of shunted them aside until today. 8=(

From the CAN: "Original Calpis Sour"; "Refreshing Taste. Enjoy Its Crisp."

It came with an old-school tab, more rectangular then rounded like the current iterations. As such, I was cautious on the Crack! as I did not want it to snap off as they used to in the mid-1980s. I beCAN my slow, gentle C-Line Glug, but once it became evident that clarity was not in the picture, I allowed it to free-flow. I got a brief finger of fizzy, foamy, soapy, bone-white head that quickly faded to nothingness. Color was a milky, cloudy Milk-White (SRM = N/A), like I had just poured a glass of milk! 8=O Nose had a soft lemony quality, like Lemon Ice at Rita's Ices. 8=O Mouthfeel was medium. The taste had a pleasant lemony tartness & I was still thinking of Lemon Ice or the milky-white portion of a Bomb Pop! This was absolutely perfect on a hot, humid Summer's evening! Man, was this tasty. Wild? Sour? More lemony-tart, but I had no idea when I was adding it. My Kanji is weak, at best, but if anyone wants to get on their website & send an update, by all means, have at it! It was definitely tart & much better than crappy mass-produced powdered lemonade. Instead, it was very evocative of a liquefied Italian Lemon Ice. Finish was semi-dry, but highly refreshing. Wow! Thanks, Rod! YMMV.