Fuki No Tou Pilsener
Brasserie Rancho El Paso

Thin froth disappears in moments and just random, large bubbles come up from the thick and cloudy body. Looks like an Orangina, with a frosty yellow orange color. Active in the glass.

Nose is roasted veggie chips and creamy. Dead on "fuki to tou" (butterbur) tenpura smell. Cheap tenpura, however, as the smell holds some low-quality oil.

I'm not sure if this is really a pilsener, but who knows. Salty fuki no tou tenpura taste, or buttery potatoe chips or french fries. Occasionally feels a clean and refreshing vegetal-ness. Carbonation is felt gently on the throat and then dissipates.

Drinkability goes down as I think of how often I would want to eat cheap tenpura. Feels like a meal. I would be curious to drink this beer WHILE eating tenpura. Something crazy might happen.

No hops added to this beer, replaced by the butterbur/fuki no tou plant.

Almost no head on a beautiful opaque glittering golden color body. This beer uses a mountain vegetable instead of hops, and the smell apparently shows strong aromas of this vegetable. For those like me who don't know the actual vegetable, my first impression was of pizza, and more precisely of anchoves. The taste is quite citric, with limes, and a crazy mountain vegatable flavor (anchoves for me again...) The mouthfeel is a bit weak and watery, with an interesting persistence of the vegetable thing. Quite smooth and sweet in the mouth though. Definitely interesting. A very innovative beer.