Kirin Ichiban Special Premium Reserve
by Dallas Reimer
(Beer Delegate, MB, Canada)
Kirin Ichiban Special Premium Reserve: "special" because it's an A-B beer. So much for Japan
Japan
I've wanted to go to Japan my whole life (mostly due to Super Mario Bros, Cosplay and the general weirdness found in vending machines). Alas, Kirin Ichiban Special Premium Reserve on my World Tour of Beer is as close as I will get for now.
I crack the bottle and take a sip. I taste no Japan in this bottle. In fact, I don't taste a whole lot of anything.
This was uncannily American beer. A quick trip to the Kirin Ichiban website concluded that this beer was in fact produced by the Anheuser-Busch company – producers of Budweiser beer and (shudder) Michelob.
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