Sunday 29 January 2006

Have a drink. Have an Asahi.

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.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

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.

Peter Cresswell said...

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."

??

"Very dry and intense iron flavour."

??

"Sour with no finish at all."

??

"Feels like a battery on the tongue."

!!

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.

Charlie Tan said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.