Echigo Koshihikari
(Translated from the Japanese on the can)
We’ve used the delicious water and Koshihikari rice that Niigata’s nature has provided and made this in a German-style decoction mash. This is a dry beer with a crisp palate and finish.
We’ve used the delicious water and Koshihikari rice that Niigata’s nature has provided and made this in a German-style decoction mash. This is a dry beer with a crisp palate and finish.
2.7
242 reviews
Nishikanbara-gun, Japan
Community reviews
11.8oz can, yes 11.8, not 11.2 or 12.0 - not the beer I ordered but not the beer's problem. Lager. No off flavors. A little sweet. Corn finish which is impressive since this is a rice beer.
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.
at Busshari Japanese Restaurant
Malty, grassy, crisp, dry, sparkling. Some bitterness. Pretty ok.
Purchased at Busshari Japanese Restaurant
Can poured a clear gold with a small lasting white head. Aromas of straw, rice, yeast and light fruitiness. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a smooth dry finish. Flavors of bread, rice, yeast and a hint of fruitiness with a smooth dry finish.
I have picked up this beer from más que cervezas at Madrid. Drinking and enjoying it, at home, Epalinges, two days ago. The color is yellow/gold, clear with a normal carbonation, white foam. In my point of view, it is a classical and generous lager, malty, side of rice, rather bready and smooth, classical hop, watery and refreshing.
Tasty classic Japanese beer. Light, slightly sweet D4+
Reasonable crisp, clear, rice lager. Easy to drink. Moderate carbonation. I don't remember it being noticeably dry, but it is light. Mostly light malt/cracker flavors.
50cl bottle from Tagawa Store in Brussels.
F: big, white, good retention.
C: pale gold, clear.
A: light malty, bit rice, bit bready, bit grassy.
T: light malty base, bit rice, vaguely caramel, it is rice beer so no such disaster no flaws here yet hardly to be really enjoyed, medium carbonation.
Grainy with a light sweetness. Honey and citrus, a bit earthy. Light, but not thin.
From a can at Tachibana in McLean. Pours a clear gold with a thick white head. Slight grain aroma. Flavor is moderately sweet with little bitterness. Crisp finish.
330 ml. can. Pours a medium thick, well retained, off white head, with slight lacing, over a clear carbonated light gold (SRM 4) body.....nose is sweet rice malt with slight herbal tones from either rice or hops......taste is mild sweet tones with slight light apple pear type fruit tones, becoming dry with very mild hop bitterness.......mouth feel, light body, no alcohol, high carbonation. This is a light mild Lager type with rice tones for the Specialty Grain beer. It is very, very simple in both aroma and flavor and is utterly uninteresting. BJCP 6/2/8/4/5
Pours clear solar yellow with a thick and fairly persistent ivory head. Aroma gives up crisp malt and a hint of apple - and something else. From the rice? Flavor presents raw malt and sweet apple, not spectacular but refreshing. Texture yields fair body and peppy fizz. Crisp, clean, satisfying.
Basic pale lager, a bland wave of rice sweetness and mild esters against a grainy backbone and almost no hop presence. Accessible, I guess, and probably a decent alternative to Asahi when you’re at the sushi restaurant, but otherwise as no-frills as it gets. Drinkable; not much else going for it.
Pours pale gold with little aroma and no head; pleasant sweet palate with no discernible hop presence.
Bottle at Sushi Ogawa 8-3-18
0.5 bottle @ Matcha Ta House
Clear, gold, no head. Malty, fruity, a little DMS-y. Taste is sweet, fruity, malty. Light, slick, lively. Finish is bitterer, some hop counter appears. Overall, your classical pale lager.
Bright and bold yellow. Slightly puffy head. Aroma is rice, malt, and hay. Taste is rice with some citric sweetness in the background.
350ml can.
Light gold colour with good head.
Grainy aroma. Sweet grainy palate with hardly any bitterness to speak of. Meh.
Bottle pours golden with a white head. Aroma of grass, grains and a hint of floral. Taste is basically the same as aroma
I just had to try it. 5% alcohol, so nothing special there. Cool that it's made from rice, though.
Can pours a clear light gold with a thin white head and minimal lacing. Aroma is a light sweet lager. Taste is light and crisp with minimal bitterness and flavors similar to American mass produced lagers. The primary difference here is the aftertaste, which is a quite pleasant light citrus honey.
A pretty decent golden lager. Much smoother and sweet than I was expecting. Tried with Jess at Ise Ramen in Omaha in 2017.
Flesje @ Ku, Amsterdam, IX 2017. Een rijst biertje. Op zich geweldig idee maar in de praktijk best een vlak biertje. Maar in Azië vast wel meer gebruikelijk. Nauwelijks geurend een helder lichtgeel biertje met weinig koolzuur. Licht bitter maar meer op de achtergrond. Maar in een sushi bar zoals hier natuurlijk geweldige sfeer verhogend als je sushi gaat eten.
Clear golden coloured body with a thin white head and a bunch of bubbles rising from the bottom of the glass. Aroma of crisp malt, alcohol, light earth and a touch of grain, all with some dry flavours and a dose of hay. Light-bodied; Strong grassy flavour at first with a nice fresh crisp malt flavour and little else, along with some mild sugars and a touch of hay -nothing really too strong here, either. Aftertaste shows the grain and alcohol and not much else - mild and bubbly without much else. Overall, a very subdued beer without much flavour at all, but showing some dry malt and grasses and a deep hay flavour. I sampled this 350 mL can purchased from City’Super! at Harbour City, in Kowloon, Hong Kong on 29-July-2017 for HK$19,00 sampled on the streets of Hong Kong on 30-July-2017.
Can pours a clear pale golden with a medium white head. Sweet malt sweet rice and caramel aroma, musky. Sugary almost sweetness to the malt, rice. Simple not very crisp or dry. Good with Asian food.
Bottle - Light soft grains. Clear gold with a small white head. Honey like notes with a long slightly sweet finish.
Nothing complex, but a great companion to sushi. Dry, clean and not too hoppy.
Bought for an exorbitant amount in the 7-11 Spring selection, Taipei Taiwan. Very light, Budweiser colour. The bubbles and head fade very quickly. Tastes like Super Dry meets Sake. It is quite dry but not as dry as Super Dry. Not as wheaty as the afformentioned. Has a slightly weird sake aftertaste. Still like it tho.
Bottle from Dashi in Menlo Park, CA. Aroma is earthy grains, some metallic notes, maybe some light hay. Taste is earthy and a little spicy yeast / bread with a nutty finish. A little dirty at times but actually paired with with sushi.
Bottle 17fl.oz. at [ Pre-Borefts Ratebeer Tasting ] @ Deanso’s place (former ABC Beers), Korte Koediefstraat 5 Den Haag, Netherlands 2511CE.
[ As Echigo Koshihikari ].
Clear medium yellow color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, hay, corn, rice. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, corn, sweet malt, pale malt, rice. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20160922]
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