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For as much as foreign visitors and residents take a liking to Japanese beer, the way it's served when poured can be a bit jarring for some beer fans. While many see too much head on a beer to be off-putting for reasons such as "not getting what you paid for" or simply depriving them of the amount of beer they desire, in Japan a healthy serving of foam is seen as a plus. This partly because to many in Japan, a hefty amount of head on a golden beer is an ideal aesthetic, and conveys a feeling of added freshness in taste.
While it may not be everyone's cup of tea (or beer, rather), Asahi is providing an at-home treat for those who miss the feel of a frothy mug of beer with a new release: Asahi Super Dry cans with a special lid that replicates drinking from a mug and generates more foam when opened.
The new Super Dry comes with a wide mouth lid and inner lining system that Asahi says creates more of an instantaneous rise of finer fizz and foam when opened, compared to pouring from a normal can or drinking from one. A double safety structure on the mouth of the can makes it safe to drink from directly. On the label is a picture of a freshly poured beer mug, emphasizing the nama biru (生ビール, fresh draught beer) experience that the cans aim to recreate.
The new cans won't go on sale for quite some time (April 6 for convenience stores, and April 20 throughout Japan), but they may be a suitable answer for those at home looking for a foamy beer experience without any glassware.
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Desert Tortoise
Barley pop.
BertieWooster
My post above got four minuses as well as four pluses. Do I take it that there are people who actually like Asahi Dry?
Nippori Nick
Still sold in Canada that way..pretty sure in the USA as well
Sven Asai
Beer? Who needs that new type of canned sparkling water? If you like to watch foamy liquid, put a drop dishwashing detergent into soda and enjoy the bubbles for free...tastes probably the same. Putting sugar into cola also does, just for fun and much more taste....lol
kaimycahl
What the new Asahi Super Dry cans generate is more head with wide-mouth to recreate beer mug drinking so that you can drink quickly and move on to the next beer!
Kobe White Bar Owner
Would you like some beer with your foam sir?
3RENSHO
I visited a local watering hole in Belfast during The Troubles. There was a large butcher knife on the bar, laying in a puddle of beer. I asked the bartender about it, and he demonstrated how the foam was scraped off the top of a draft glass after each pour.
Mr Kipling
Kniknaknokkaer..... I know what you mean... Kirin city, 10 minute pour.. most of the beer goes down the sinkhole.... I went twice thinking the first time was just a useless staff member. Second time they explained “that is how to correctly serve beer”. I left..
James
I actually prefer my beer without a half a glass of head thankyou very much and I usually order it without it and tell them not to take a sip (meaning to full it to the top) so with this can does it mean more head less beer ?
yokohamarides
Hoppy beers like IPAs should be canned like this. With many craft beers a big part of the taste experience is actually the smell - which is lost with regular cans unless poured into a glass.
Bill Lewis
Beer, not foam. I pay for beer, not air.
Cosmos1
I normally ask the local Mama san if she can get 4 wiskey's into my glass of aesthetically poured foam
Mocheake
No. They have been told that this is what you are supposed to like and just go along with that. If you want a half a glass of foam, order foam not beer. Just another way you get ripped off in this country and the reason I NEVER order nama unless there is no choice. When you go to the Hub, they usually leave only a bit of a head because they know foreigners like drinking BEER.
kohakuebisu
They had these on the Sapporo cans sold in the UK in the late 1980s. The can was also shaped like a posh pint glass, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. It was a very striking design that many who saw will remember.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HIGHLY-COLLECTIBLE-1980S-ORIGINAL-SAPPORO-JAPANESE-BEER-CAN-GLASS-MIMIC-DESIGN-/373382432989
BertieWooster
Nice idea, but it would have been better if they had done something about the taste. Super dry is not a good beer.