Burial Beer Extra Dry-Hopped American Pilsner
Oriental Brewery Cass Fresh Lager
I don’t know about macro beer in South Korea. But I was in the Gwangjang market in Seoul, Korea , and had lunch at a spot serving Korean Hot Pots. I couldn’t read the menu because I don’t speak Korean. So I ordered two beers and Cass Fresh Lager appeared. This pale lager is 4.5% ABV. Cass pours a clean and clear gold color with a bright white fizzy head. The aroma is clean, lightly hopped, and crisp. It smells pretty much like every mass-produced lager. The taste is much, but it’s clean, crisp, and has a light metallic taste. The flavor is not so great, but paired with a Korean dumpling hot pot it becomes better. This beer has a very light mouthfeel. Then it has a clean crisp finish. The aftertaste is almost nothing but a light sweet metallic flavor. This is a refreshing lager. Cass Fresh is a D. The fact that it goes well with Korean foods such as a dumpling hot pot helped, otherwise I scoured it much lower. I would not recommend this on its own. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!
Castlemain Perkins XXXX GOLD Lager
I have never seen XXXX Gold Lager in the US before, and I do not think that Castlemain Perkins imports in to the US. This macro lager is a low 3.5% ABV making it a sessionable lager. XXXX Gold is brewed in Milton Queensland, Australia with pale lager malt, Super Pride, Cluster, and Hop Extract. They also use yeast such as Australian Lager Yeast. This lager pours a gold color with a thin clear two finger bubbly head. The aroma is light and semisweet. The flavor is light bodied and full bodied. It starts light bodied then as it passes over the back of your tongue is becomes full bodied. It is smooth as well with a light metallic flavor. The mouth feel is light. This lager finishes soon with a low flavor. The aftertaste is slight sweet and that fades really quick. This is very easy to drink since it is 3.5% ABV. But this is okay, C- It doesn’t have much flavor and it is easy to forget the overall flavor of the beer. I don’t think I would rush back to have a XXXX Gold Lager. Please stay safe, be kind to each other l, and remember to enjoy responsibly. Cheers!
SABECO 333 Premium Export
333 Premium Export is a Lager brewed by SABECO Brewery in Ho Chi Man City, Vietnam. I have not seen much of this in the US, but I have seen it before. This is the first canned beer in Vietnam brewery first in 1985. 333 uses Hallertau hops from Bavaria and is preserved at 10 Celsius or 50 Fahrenheit. This lager is 5.3% ABV and pours a deeper gold color with a one-finger white head. The aroma is light, sweet, and malty. The flavor is clean, sweet, malty, and light. This is malted the Bia Saigon Special. This has a light mouthfeel. Then it finishes clean with a bit of sweetness. There is not much aftertaste other than a light malt note. This is not bad but it doesn’t blow me away. This a C+ beer. It is worth a try because I don’t see it very often. It has more malt than an average macro lager but it is not overly malty. Please stay safe, be kind to each other and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!
SABECO Brewery Bia Saigon Special
We do have Saigon Beer in the US, but we don’t Bia Saigon Special, a one hundred percent barley malt, hops, and water lager beer marketed toward young, dynamic, and successful consumers. This beer is 4.9% ABV and brewed by SABECO (Saigon Alcohol Beverage Corporation). This beer is only sold domestically in Vietnam. This lager pours a gold color with two finger bright white lager head. The aroma is clean and sweet aroma or malts. The flavor is crisp, clean, sweet, and has a bit of malt to it. This lager has a light feel in the mouth. It is a refreshing beer. It has a nice malted sweet light finish and a light clean malt aftertaste that doesn’t stick around long. This is an average beer much like macro beers in the US. But it is slightly better. I give SABECO Bia Saigon Special a C+. It has decent flavors but nothing to write home about. But I had to try seeing that I might never have a chance to have it again. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!
Pasteur Street Brewing Comapny
While traveling in Ho Chi Man City I found an interesting craft beer brewery Pasteur Street Brewing Company, which has locations across Ho Chi Man City and Vietnam. This one was on Pasteur St. down an alley off the street. I stopped in and order a flight of six beers, Passionfruit Wheat, Chanh Moûi Beer, Jasmin Amber, Pasteur Street Pale Ale, Session IPA, and Irish Dry Stout. The location is not far from the market in center city Ho Chi Man, and they do serve food as well.
They even have beer to go. The upstairs atmosphere is nice as the place is small but not tiny. Up from the tap room is an outdoor area. The staff is wonderful as was the bar snacks I order. All the beer in the flight was very tasty.
I particularly like the Chanh Moûi beer and the Passionfruit Wheat. Over all I would give Pasteur Street Brewing Company an A+ and I would highly recommend going in you are ever in Ho Chi Man City. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!
Garage Project Pickle Beer
Anything pickle I will pretty much like. Pickle Beer from Garage Project in Wellington City, New Zealand caught my eye on the Burn Ends menu in Singapore. This beer is a dill cucumber sour at 4.3% ABV. This beer pour a light pickle brine green with a thin one-finger head. It fades really quickly. The aroma is of faint/tart pickle. The flavor is not over briny with dill pickle, it rather light on the dill pickle. There is a nice tartness to this beer that is more of a sour/gosé. This beer has a light mouthfeel. Then it comes to a tart, light pickled finish with a sour/tart aftertaste. This is a good beer that is not overly pickled. I give this Garage Project Pickle Beer an A+. This is an easy drink beer that is refreshing and goes down easy. This would be great on a hot day. If you are ever in Singapore or New Zealand I highly recommend you drink this beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly. Cheers!
Paulaner Bräuhaus Singapore Beach Rd. Lager
Beach Rd. Lager is made Exclusively for The Raffles Hotel in Singapore by Paulaner’s Singapore Bräuhaus and is only sold at the hotel. This beer is 4.5% ABV and uses premium Franconian barley malt and Mandarina Bavarian hops. From what my waiter told me, this beer is made right across the street from the Raffles, named after Stamford Raffles, an English colonial official and governor of the East India Company who founded Singapore for the British in 1819. This beer pours an amber color with a one-finger white head. The aroma is malts and some light hay-like notes. The flavor is smooth and lightly malted. It has more carbonation than most lagers I’ve had. But that does not necessarily make this bad or good, it just is. This has a light mouthfeel. The finish is a touch bitter with light malts. The aftertaste is slightly less carbonated. This was not bad. I found this beer interesting, but I give it a C+. It was good, but Paulaner makes other better beers, and that is why I think it doesn’t get any higher than a C+. It is worth a try if you are in Singapore at the Raffles Hotel. You might never have it if you don’t. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!
Brewlander Lioness Session IPA
Lioness Session IPA from Singapore’s Brewlander, a craft brewery. This session IPA is in conjunction with the Singapore Edition hotel, which can be found in the hotel mini bar. This is one of many beers I will blog about throughout my journey through Asia over a month. This IPA is 4.3% ABV, which is low for a standard beer in the USA, even for a session IPA. That is just another way of calling a lower-than-standard ABV beer. A session is spent drinking beer at home or in a bar/pub. Lionless pours a light gold color with a light orange hue and a one-finger white head The aroma is light hoppy and somewhat sweet. The flavor is hoppy with light bitterness and light sweetness, with a smooth body. This has a lighter mouthfeel. The finish has a light, hoppy flavor. The finish is smooth. This is not a bad beer, and it goes down easy, but I wouldn’t say this beer is good. It is a C+. It has a light funkiness overall, but not in a bad way. I would recommend it, but then again, it wouldn’t be a beer I would look for. As for Brewlander, I would try some of their other beers. You really can judge a brewery on just one beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Atomic Torpedo Imperial IPA
Battle stations, battle stations! Man the Torpedoes, Atomic Torpedo, Imperial IPA from Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. This IPA is 9.2% ABV with Honey and Two-Row Pale malts. Cascade, Centennial, Magnum, and Mosaic hops with Ale yeast are also brewed into this big IPA. Atomic Torpedo is an imperial version of their Torpedo IPA. This big IPA pours light orange with a one-finger white head. The aroma is fruity, orange, and bitter. The flavor is piney, bitter, and orange flavored. The orange flavor is not really strong, but flavorful enough. Atomic Torpedo has a somewhat light feeling in the mouth. Then, it has a piney, strong, and light-fruited finish with a nice bitter pine aftertaste. This does not feel as boozy as it is for a 9.2% imperial IPA. That is a plus and why you should drink Sierra Nevada Atomic Torpedo. I give this an A+ It has well-rounded and delicious flavors without feeling overly aggressive in the alcohol department. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!
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