Aaaaah! Kirin Ichiban- a really smooth and well brewed west coast style pale ale produced by Japanese brewer Kirin. You know it's them because the bottles and cans have a Kirin painted on them. One of my favorite ales for those hot heavy days where I just cant stomach a heavy stout. Being that I too brew my own beer I've made a few batches that were oddly similar to the ichiban taste. The thing with brewing, and more over carbonating is having just the right mix of sugar, time, and temp to assure a nice rich head can form, and the beer is not flat, secondly maintaining a good temperature once served to keep that vitamin rich foam. Well, it looks once more like Japan has come up with another crazy machine to make things better once more.
