{"id":1889,"date":"2009-02-05T17:58:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T03:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2009-02-05T17:58:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T03:58:26","slug":"harbin-lager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/05\/harbin-lager\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Is Good – Harbin Lager"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>On the Friday before the Lunar New Year, I stopped by Kin Wah Chinese Restaurant<\/em> for dinner. For the New Year, they had a special on Harbin Lager<\/em>. I had never tried one of these before, so I gave it a shot. There was no indication of size on the ad, so I was initially shocked by the 600ml size. Flavor-wise, I was expecting a vile, overly-hopped, Pilsen-esque Heineken<\/em> clone along the lines of a Tsingtao<\/em>, but was pleasantly surprised with something wonderful. The initial mouth feel was dry not unlike a Japanese lager, but with more bittering hops. This gave it more of a Pilsen-like first flavor, but the middle had a distinct, full malt flavor like a Bavarian lager. The finish was clean. This was a good, refreshing, easily drinkable beer. I later called Fabio to tell him about it, and he stunned me with the revelation that Harbin fell under Anheuser-Busch<\/em> ownership in 2004. Oh man\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, I guess if that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the case, I probably wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have had the chance to try it in the States!<\/p>\n

Sorry\u00c2\u00a0the pictures are\u00c2\u00a0at\u00c2\u00a0crappy keitai camera resolution!<\/p>\n

5% ABV<\/p>\n

About $5 in restaurant service<\/p>\n

Recommended<\/p>\n

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On the Friday before the Lunar New Year, I stopped by Kin Wah Chinese Restaurant for dinner. For the New Year, they had a special on Harbin Lager. I had never tried one of these before, so I gave it a shot. There was no indication of size on the ad, so I was initially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-ut","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}