Yanjing 11º Premium 4.5%
Top grade Australian malt, selected rice, fine aromatic hops and pure natural fountain produce out the beer with pure liquid, satin smoothness, affluent and long-lasting foam. Its fragrant taste and sharp beer strength will impress you deeply
1.6
155 reviews
Beijing, China
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This is terrible....if this is premium, I don’t want their lower one. It’s like a bitter and bad Nat lite. Thanks Carter.
Bottle. Standard boring lager flavour from China, could be worse. Sweet in the finish
Bottle. Light golden, very small and fully diminishing head. Light, malty - corn and sweetish aroma, faint vegetables. Body is light, malty – corn and sweetish flavor, faint vegetables. Finish is short, malty – corn and lightly sweetish, faint vegetables and light alcohol. Almost like water.
11.2oz bottle, green glass, no abv marking, assuming this rating is in the right spot (GTIN=819538001508). Nose is sultry with corn, light dust and flowers. Dull clear golden with a soapy white head. Ultra-watery body sweet and grainy, no corn here, faintly floral. No bitterness whatsoever, but at least the sweetness is controlled; there is a slowly grating and warming sensation at the back of the throat and something of a foul aftertaste. Strange, considering how nondescript the main thrust is.
Had this on a flight from Beijing to Sydney. Light golden clear body with normal size head. Lemon, grass and hops in the nose. Hops and bitter in flavour and bitter in aftertaste.
Rated in 2010 (Backlog) - Yellow in color with a small white head. Aroma is of corn and skunkiness. Taste is of corn and grain. Blah.
This was the official beer of the recent Beijing Olympics. I’m pretty sure this beer was chosen because it goes down easy and would make it very easy to obtain urine for drug tests (Carl Lewis needed 5 beers in Barcelona for one test - this beer would have been perfect). It’s swill. It’s Chinese Bud Light.
The head is fast going, the body is blond. It smells malty, soft, watery. the taste is boring watery, sweet, rice, malty. boring. 8/7/6/6/9/7
Gul i färgen, vitt skum. Doftar och smakar söt malt, gräs, lite unket, kolsyrat. Bättre än många andra Kinaöl.
11.2 oz green bottle gifted to me as part of a World Market beers of the world 9 pack. The pour is a clear yellow golden with a 2 inch white head that breaks down quickly with with thick bubbles. The aroma is cereal grain, lightly sweet, faint and not much going on. The taste is a weird chemical sweetness right away, unpleasant, followed by a flat floral sweet, and then a bit of cardboard in the back. The palate is light to medium bodied, low carbonation level, and the dirty vegetal finish. Flat, watery and flabby, I could only drink a few ounces of this. Gross stuff.
bomber. pours extra pale yellow with a small white cap, no retention or lacing. faint lightly sugary malts, rice, corn - adjuncts, herbal blandness for a very short, if not absent, finish. watery - light body, aggressive carbonation. already forgotten. drain pour.
33cl bottle. Golden colour with minimal and quickly diminishing white head. Aroma is light grassy and cerealish. Flavour is very light malty, with notes of rice. Carbonation is medium. Body is light.
Bottle at Night Markets, Hong Kong. It is another typical Asian-style macro lager with barely there aroma and taste of corn syrup, rice, cardboard and a very light hop presence. Light-medium body with a watery texture. Clear straw yellow appearance with transient small white head.
33 cl bottle as ”Yanjing Beer”, 11°, 4,5%. Rated on 02.02.2010
Bright yellow-orange colour. Disappearing head with small bubbles. Aroma has metal and malt. Flavour is really light with some butter and malt. Typical Asian bulk lager.
Bottle (330ml):
Straight away the smell of this beer reminded me of Becks but a little sweeter towards the end, there is a clean and crisp aroma with a tinny bit of skunk in there and some grain too. Very much a pale lager with a touch of lager hops and corn with some rice as well.
Quite a pale straw looking beer with a thin, bubbly looking white head that fades to a tiny lacing around the glass after about twenty seconds.
Quite a crisp and very sweet tasting pale lager with a lot of corn and more grain than I would have liked from it. It is light tasting and full of various adjuncts. It is perhaps a little watery right at the end too.
A thin and light bodied lager with not much in the way of substance and slightly too watery for my liking. It does get it right with regards to carbonation though and is easy enough to drink as opposed to being overly gassy as I was fearing.
This wasn’t nearly as bad as I had feared. It is drinkable and has a nice crisp sweetness about it and would be an excellent thirst quencher in a warmer climate.
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Bottle @ Hotelroom, Kunshan. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, grain, corn. Taste is weak malt, grain, corn, notes of straw. Medium body, lively carbonation. 060112
Tasted from green bottle into standard pint glass. Part of a Beers of the World mix-pack. Poured a straw color, with a fluffy white head, somewhat lasting with a tiny bit of lace. Aromas of grain, grass, extremely faint (noble?) hops. Flavor was almost entirely neutral, just clean, mellow, cereal grain water. Dry finish, no aftertaste at all. Not bad, not very good either.
Interesting beer to look on, the green bottle filled with chinese characters on the label. However it is somewhat unlikely that a mass produced Chinese ricebeer would be a taste revelation. The beer smells quite well - fresh and lightly hoppy as other Asian lagers. taste is soft and light and fresh. a nice little beer you could easily drink many of without getting tired of them.
330ml bottle -
Suprised to find this on the menu at a local Chinese restaurant. The only thing they’d ever served was Tsingtao, and I do think that this one was just a step up from Tsingtao. Standard piss yellow body with a foamy 2" airy cap, with really quick soda-pop like dissipation. Aroma is a "blink and you’ll miss it" kinda of aroma. Really light hay, touch skunky and bready. Flavor is light, quick, with just a hint of sweetness, clean finish. It went well with the food I had ordered, and didn’t detract from the flavors of the food. Not sure I’d plunk down $8-10 for a sixer, but you could do worse.
300ml bottle. Slightly metallic hop aroma with biting carbonation and light toasted malt with sweet finish. Certainly not horrible but pretty bland.
Bottle. Kind of offensive. Skunky and watery. Really not a good beer at all.
Ich habe das Bier schon in China getrunken, zwischen den wässrigen Bieren dort war das hier noch herausragend, das kann ich jetzt nicht gerade behaupten. Es präsentiert sich typisch wässrig, einzig der herbe Ton im Mittelteil, der anschließend langsam mit süßem Touch weicht ist erwähnenswert. Wenn ihr in China seit, das ist eins der besten Bier, wirklich....
Test vom 15.11.2006, Gebinde: Dose Noten: 3,3,4,2,9,3
330 ml bottle. As Yanjing Beer (4.5%). Finland.
Clear golden colour with small white head.
Skunky aroma of mild hops, cereal, rice and some sweetness.
Flavour is sweet malty with some cereal and mild bitterness.
Low carbonation.
supposedly the most popular beer in china, it was skunky at first, but surprisingly unoffensive.
33cl bottle. Poured very pale golden with a soapy white head. Aroma is citrus and rice. Watery, very thin. Flavor is malt and rice. No bitterness.
17th October 2006
Warning! Early amateur rating! Light and insubstantial like an ice lager. Moderate carbonation. Dull muted flavours make a dull beer.
I don’t know if this is the right one, but anyway it looks like this: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1JmMJ_qDjRs/S06TATI7TkI/AAAAAAAAAUY/ZUpb14EGsvA/s400/yanjing-beer.jpg and there’s 4.5 % alcohol.
It tastes smooth, and there’s funny kind of roastiness, cereal-chocolate. A bit bitter and, but very little. This is very great beer for those who like creamy, mild, yet good tasting beers. No any yeast/bacteria or other stupid aromas. The beer somehow "takes" the mouth, fills it with a weird little little bubble taste.
[330 ml bottle, Citymarket, Lahti, Finland]
66cl bottle. Pours a clear pale golden color with e small white head. Aroma is too soft with hints of cereals. Taste is lightly malty with cereals again. Palate is inconsistent with medium carbonation.
This was a pretty stadard asian beer with a little bit of flavor but nothing heavy. Enjoyable, almost like a tsingtao.
Bottle. Poured clear golden color with an average frothy white head that was slowly diminished with fair lacing. Moderate grass aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium grass bittersweet flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met with an below average beer.