Orion Draft Beer

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Pours a crystal clear pale straw yellow in color with light amounts of visible carbonation and has a small white head that instantly dissipates to an extremely thin patch and a slightly thicker ring at the edges of the glass. Light to moderate amounts of lacing is observed. The aroma as some adjunct malt as well as a stronger aroma of rice and toasted rice with just a hint of some earthy hops. The taste follows pretty closely to the aroma, there is a pleasant sweet malt malt (mostly adjunct malt with grain sweetness). There is a pleasant toasted rice flavor as well as some hints of earthy hops with very light bitterness. The mouthfeel is light bodied with light to moderate amounts of carbonation.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

It pours a light golden with a few traces of a white head and a ring of lacing. An aroma of rice malts, soil, funk, bread and yeast, some lemon and light spice. The mouthfeel is smooth, silky, rich. Flavors of rice malts, hops, lemon and citrus, earth, light funk, bread and yeast, bitterness, and light spices. The flavor is somewhat funky, but altogether not bad..

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

Pours a little dark for a "pale lager". Long lasting head with slight lacing. Flavor is mild with a hint of hops to liven things up a bit. In general the flavor is ok, but not too special. Great "heavy bottle" should working well to bop your neighbors head when they disagree with your stupid bar bet!

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Aroma is crisp and malty, OK, but nothing special. It pours a clear straw-yellow with a fairly thick white head. Flavor is rather wan, malty and rather sweet with just a hint of hops, again nothing special but still drinkable. Texture is smooth, fizzy and just a tad on the thin side. I won't be seeking this out again, but it was worth a fair shake.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Quit a suprise when I popped the top of this behemoth bottle and poured the contents into my glass. A fresh blast of fresh baked bread and a light lemony touch. I kept pounding my glass because the aroma was so inviting for a pale lager. Really suprised. The body was a standard piss-yellow color, 1" frothy tan head which melted into a oil-slick-like island of scum that petered around the middle of my glass. Flavor has some solid citrus notes, light grassy bitterness, some yeast and grainy. Clean finish. Very refreshing.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Aroma, flavor and mouthfeel were always dependent upon the water supply in Okinawa. In the early 70s it was the only local beer one could find in Okinawa, and compared to preservative filled Ameircan beer it was very good. By the time I got back to Okinawa in late 80s there was a lot more choices in Japanese and other beers. However, many of us old timers still enjoyed the Orion. If one found it on draft, which is true with most beers obviously, it had a much bette aroma and flavor.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

The aroma is a little skunky. The appearance was nice lots of head and lacing nice carbonation bubbles. The mouthfeel was also nice. This is the only beer in Colorado that you can get that is actually brewed in Japan. I have had a lot of Japanese beer in Japan (Japanese beer in the states are brewed in canada or USA). Compared to Japanese light beers in Japan this is ok. Compared to United States light beers this is so much better. This beer has a nice hoppy flavor. Crisp and mild great for a hot day.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Pours with a pale yellow body topped by a very thin, white head with no lacing. It’s slightly swett with a touch of bitterness, a grassy note and corn notes with little else. Light bodied and crisp.

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Canned. Pale golden colour, minor white head. Aroma is diacetylic, maizeish and malty. Flavour is totally crap, diacetyl and very harsh grassy mould and skunked hops. Very unpleasant. No points for this one. No, none whatsoever.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

Bottle. Mid golden colour with a slim white head. Grainy, hoppy and wet paper aroma. Taste is bad, real bad. Can’t go on. First one of these filler sentances I've done in a while.