And here it is. Not in a crazy bottle, but most definitely Otaru Beer. The bottle with the orange label is an ale and the green is a lager. I actually preferred the latter. Budweiser and Miller have done lagers no favors and most folks associate the word lager with mass-market watery concoctions lacking in flavor and character. Not this Otaru lager. It's light, to be sure, but light in the way Darjeeling tea is light, or Mozart. I can't say much about oak undertones or hints of cherry. I can't really describe the flavor at all. It tastes like...good beer.
Friday, February 12, 2010
And here it is. Not in a crazy bottle, but most definitely Otaru Beer. The bottle with the orange label is an ale and the green is a lager. I actually preferred the latter. Budweiser and Miller have done lagers no favors and most folks associate the word lager with mass-market watery concoctions lacking in flavor and character. Not this Otaru lager. It's light, to be sure, but light in the way Darjeeling tea is light, or Mozart. I can't say much about oak undertones or hints of cherry. I can't really describe the flavor at all. It tastes like...good beer.
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Yeah, I remember that beer, it was from Michael Jackson's Great Beer book, which I still own.
The bottle was a growler (I think) with a silver fish for a handle.
And while a lot of people think of me as a beer snob, I often cannot taste the "flavors" that some people claim to be able to in beers.
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