This week, a different beer, a different company, but from the same country, is presenting to you:
First thing first, the name of the company.
Kirin, is a mythical chimerical creature known in Asian culture. As you can see in the logo, Kirin has the head of dragon, the body of horse and the tail of ox. It can breath fire, and call like thunder. Kirin represents prosperity or serenity in ancient China.
But if you use google translate, it tells you kirin is a giraffe.
Well, that is basically because of there was no Kirin in the western myth and all they could imagine is giraffe.
Anyways, the Kirin beer attracted me by its name when I first saw it. (Actually all animal names or logos do)
Skipping the history of the company (as I would write one about it in later future), this company produces different beer products, including Lager, Stout, and with other favours. And Nodogoshi is then one of them.
Nodogoshi is different from other beers.
The name, again, means more than name.
What is Nodogoshi (のどごし)? It means the feeling when the beer goes through the throat, that special moment you feel the freshness in your body. (Nama means draught)
So drinking the beer does not only drink its taste with your tongue, and also the Nodogoshi by your throat.
The other thing that makes this beer special, is the beer is gluten-free, yes, which means it is free of gluten and no gluten involved. Yup, you did not see something wrong, the beer has no gluten.
Oh, come on, don't ask me what is gluten (I wikied for you).
Which means the ingredient of the beer is not barley or wheat, but soybean.
One of the great things is people who have coeliac disease can also enjoy the specialness of beer. I just cannot imagine how am I going to survive without beer. (Thou I almost certain I would keep living).
As I have never tried another beer of soybean before, I cannot tell how much different from it, but definitely the differences from the normal beer.
According to the official website, Kirin Nodogoshi Nama embodies a crisp and full-bodied taste.
And from my unprofessional tasting test, it is
- Actually tasted like barley or malt.
- The sweetness of the beer fulfilled the whole oral cavity once swallowed, and
- The bitterness came in after 5 seconds, the aftertaste stayed for a while until the next sip.
In R scale, it would be 8/10. Definitely worth trying it.
And in May 2015, a product of Nodogoshi has been published, which the ingredient changes from soybean back to barley AND wheat.
How would that different from the soybean one or the normal beer, we will find that out.
At last, just cannot ignore, and can't deny Japanese's creativity and earnestness.
This is the experiment of the Japanese scientists using electromyogram to test the muscle movement when drinking different drinks, including cold water, carbonated water and room temp water.
And I did not read thru the whole article coz im lazy (Yes, they published it - "Effects of taste solutions, carbonation, and cold stimulus on the power frequency content of swallowing submental surface electromyography" Chem Senses, 2009 May; 34(4): 325-31 Eoub 2009 Feb 16"
But check that out if you are interested.
Cheers, drink safe!
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