Been drinking Asahi 'Super Dry' beer all weekend. Imported by CUB, it's around and it's affordable.Fine stuff. Wonderfully refreshing -- perhaps just a touch sweet -- and a very subtle malty after-taste.
A perfect accompaniment to the summer -- and it goes just fine with Miso soup.
Cheers.
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Hey PC, if you like it - got for it! Myself, I haven't tried this since I spat it out in digust as an 18 year old...
Offensive, for me, in it's effort to remain inoffensive.
Rated in the bottom 10% of beers, by beer lovers, at www.ratebeer.com.
Not sure just how seriously those beer-lovers can be taken, Stu:
"Pours a golden clear liquid that gets almost no head at all."
Nope.
"Typical asian lager: little aroma, but refreshing and easy to drink."
True, but a cut above the other Asian lagers.
"Nose of sewer and a hint of hops."
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"Very dry and intense iron flavour."
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"Sour with no finish at all."
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"Feels like a battery on the tongue."
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And finally some sense from a Canadian:
"Well now I think that this beer is the best dry or super dry in the world, it has a wonderful dry and silky taste."
Quite right. :-)
Anyway, that said, their Top 18 widely distributed beers look pretty sound. Thanks for the link, Stu.
It also gives you one hell of a hangover.
I used to drink this on tap every night (Japanese pubs often serve only one type of beer) at my local in Osaka. I'd invariably wake up with a splitting headache the next morning, no matter how much I drank. Thank god work started at 2pm.
Yep, I'd have to agree, there are some blatantly biased comments in there... the folk at ratebeer are not exactly your typical asian-lager drinkers.
You'll find that most of those "widely distributed" beers are not distributed this widely.
Call Rumble's Wine Cellar, in Wellington, for an order list - they have a superb order coming in mid-Feb and the shipping is not all that expensive.
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