Harbin Beer
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Ingredients: Two-row malt, European and Chinese “Qindao Dahua” hops, rice, and German yeast.
Harbin Beer, the earliest Chinese beer, brewed in 1900 in the origin of the beer industry in China. With hundred years of infusion of China’s traditional culture Harbin Beer brings a pure good taste.
Inspired by the Tradition and Culture of China’s Most Northern Province of Hellongjiang.
NOTE: Under this entry, rate ONLY exported Harbin that roughly matches the ABV and local Harbin that matches it completely. If it differs in any way and doesn’t match the other entries under the brewer, please send in a bug report with the alcohol percentage, degrees plato (important!), the GTIN and preferably a link to a picture of both the front and the back label so that we can set up an entry.
Ingredients: Two-row malt, European and Chinese “Qindao Dahua” hops, rice, and German yeast.
Harbin Beer, the earliest Chinese beer, brewed in 1900 in the origin of the beer industry in China. With hundred years of infusion of China’s traditional culture Harbin Beer brings a pure good taste.
Inspired by the Tradition and Culture of China’s Most Northern Province of Hellongjiang.
NOTE: Under this entry, rate ONLY exported Harbin that roughly matches the ABV and local Harbin that matches it completely. If it differs in any way and doesn’t match the other entries under the brewer, please send in a bug report with the alcohol percentage, degrees plato (important!), the GTIN and preferably a link to a picture of both the front and the back label so that we can set up an entry.
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329 reviews
Harbin, China
Community reviews
Bottle. Clear gold pouring. Decent head. Clean grainy aroma & taste. Low bitterness. Drinkable.
Canned. Thx anonymous
Pale yellow with almost no head.
Light cereal aroma.
Sweetand cereal flavour. Sugary.
Absolutely no bitterness. High carbonation.
Bottle. Pale Gold. Light, mild, slightly sweet, lightly malted lager. Not particularly exciting, but it is drinkable. (2008)
Burk i Changchun. Ljust gul med vitt skum. Besksöt doft med brödtoner. Mjölkig munkänsla med mycket brödsmulor och lite citrus.
Backlog. 610 ml bottle had with food in Singapore. Inauspicious macro lager. Some corn, rice.
Well it’s not bad for the style at least. Inoffensive and refreshing...........light flavors of corn, some malt and maybe a hint of wheat.
Dåse. Hotelværelse i Geyongdo. Hvad man kan forvente af kedelig makro lager. En del hvede i smagen men ellers kedelig. Mest interessante var den gamle måde at åbne dåsen på.
Canned. Lots of wheat taste. Very thin with a semi sweet aftertaste that turns to bitter. Okay.
Average pils beer, golden color and light taste, light on alcohol as well. Quite bubbly and goes down very well.
Bottle 0.33l at Dva Stapica Chinese Fast Food place Belgrade Serbia. 17.11.2015.Pour it clear golden color with small white head.Aroma corn.Taste malt, sourish corn, maybe also rice inside, not good quality.
Some people might claim that this beer is thin and watery, with a strong taste of either nothing, or of rice and corn. It’s pale, it’s thin, it has very little hop, and i LOVE it. It works really well with simple Chinese food like congee and preserved radish. Maybe not what I would serve with peking duck, maybe not what i would serve with kung pao chicken, but with simple hainan steamed chicken it is perfect.
Very pale gold with nearly not head in its traditional China’s bowl. Sweet aroma and taste. Rice, light hops. Better than average Chinese beers.
600ml Bottle in Macau as Harbin NBA, 5%
Sweetish malty beginning. Strange chemical aroma, smooth but no depth. No bitterness on a neutral sweetish body. Boring.
I though it had a promising start then it turned out to be neither one thing or another, aside from cold. Bit of hops not enough, malt aroma, but not enough in the body, bit empty really. But it quenched a thirst.
Had this at a team business dinner on my first trip to China (Shanghai). Basic pale lager. Nothing special but it tasted just great as the team cheers’d me one by one!
Bottle at mission hills, haikou. Light golden color. Aroma is malty. Taste is malty lager, not good.
Easy drinking session beer, nothing special, pours a light yellow with a small diminishing white head, earthy grainy aroma, what you would expect for a Chinese Lager refreshing but only just.
12oz can. Pours golden yellow with a white head. Standard lager but I enjoyed it less than most other lagers.
Bright yellow appearance, medium low head. Malty and grainy aromas, sweet, not much hops or bitterness. Average Pale lager style.
Extremely poor beer. Kind of taste like a shitty lager and tea infused with it. Very odd one. Don’t like it at all
Bottle: pours a light yellowish straw color with quickly diminishing white head. Aroma is almost non-existent, maybe a slight malty sweetness. Taste is very light, slightly grainy, and sweet. There really is no hop presence detectable, as it finishes with a light sugary flavor on the tongue. Carbonation is relatively high, body is very light. Really gives the meaning in the phrase "Beer is really just slightly contaminated water."
ours yellow with a thin white head that’s gone in seconds. Nose is a sticky kind of sweet graininess. Taste is not particularly pleasant; slightly medicinal and bland. Thin, watery, average carbonation. Not much. Perhaps better than Miller Lite.
Pours yellow with a thin white head that's gone in seconds. Nose is a sticky kind of sweet graininess. Taste is not particularly pleasant; slightly medicinal and bland. Thin, watery, average carbonation. Not much. Perhaps better than Miller Lite.
500 ml can from The Beer Store. Pours a clear pale golden colour with near instantly disappearing white head. Aroma is sweet grains with light adjunct. Flavour likewise. Thin-medium body. Weak but there are worse pale lagers out there.
Miami Heat / NBA. I cannot relate this to Harbin, but that’s what was on the can, from a HK grocery store. Not surprisingly, a sweet, flavourless uneventful pale lager, with only a flourish bite to mention. From the description above, than I’d say it was Russian, before becoming Chinese.
500 ml bottle pours light golden with zero head and light carbonation. Not much aroma or taste.
Fizzy golden yellow, foam not worth mentioning. I’m always alarmed at how bright some pale lagers can be. Anyway, taste is corn syrup, barley. Not much finish. Sweetish. Crisp, clean etc. Not offensive.
500ml can with a pull tab. 4.3% abv. Pale yellow, almost no head. Weak nose, some sweet grain. Taste has grain and straw. Drying and plain finish. Light body, fizzy. Bland brew, industrial swill.
(Part 2 of a 2-part “Macro Abyss Night” mini series, 1-Jun-2013)
600 ml clear bottle as “Harbin Bing Chun (Ice Pure)” at abv 5%. Having this with a group of friends during a raucous dinner / gathering at a famous Tai Pai Dong-style restaurant somewhere in North Point.
Pours an ugly urine amber yellow color onto Harbin-logo rice bowl; Razor-thin head and residual white foam which last for about 20 seconds;
Zero lacing and near zero carbonation; Low sweet smell of faint malt, rice and apple; Very light sweet taste of malt notes, sweet apple, and faint rice; Light body, watery palate; Mouth feel is beer-water at its finest, pretty much devoid of any taste except some apple sweetness and slight hint of rice. No other foul taste is detected; Hoppiness is zero on all fronts. No finish. Wet after taste, extremely easy to mouth.
Comments: I thought this one would be really bad, considering the clear bottle and my previous bad experience with restaurant-bound Chinese macros like Tsingtao 10°. It turned out just fine, because it’s a beer-water with no skunk, almost no smell and taste, just a horrid bowl of urine-like liquid with some sweetish apple nose and barely some taste. My friends, freed from an all-afternoon mock exam, were so receptive of this and we ended up having 10 bottles without any signs of getting knocked. That’s Harbin flagship beer for you, folks. One of our friends brought along a bottle of Chocolat Rouge Sweet Red wine, with a nice sweet milk chocolate taste and palate reminiscent of Young’s Double Chocolate Stout, was the focus of the night. Go figure.
Usual pale ale/ lager colour and flavour. Nothing new or exciting. Seemed well made. Was not off putting and did its job with some spicy dumplings.