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Oriental Brewery

🌍 South Korea · Regional · Known for American Lager
Known for American Lager

South Korea's largest brewery by volume, founded in 1948. Now owned by AB InBev. Cass Fresh is Korea's best-selling beer — a clean, light lager that dominates the Korean convenience store and restaurant market. OB's portfolio covers everything from the budget Cass to the premium OB Golden Lager. The beer of Korean BBQ restaurants, PC bangs and late-night pojangmacha street stalls.

3Beers
1Styles
4.4%Avg ABV
1948Founded

Beers by Oriental Brewery

3 beers
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Cafri
American Lager · 4.2%
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Cass Fresh
Cass Fresh
American Lager · 4.5%
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OB Golden Lager
Lager · 4.5%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 3 beers in the catalogue.

Emerging signature · based on 3 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
cleanevery beer
3 of 3 beers
lightevery beer
3 of 3 beers
crispevery beer
3 of 3 beers
refreshingevery beer
3 of 3 beers

With 3 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Focused3 beers · 1 style family
Lager 3

Everything sits in one family — which makes the comparison below the interesting part. It isn't what they brew that sets them apart, but how.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with 104 other breweries making American Lager.
Three beers is enough for a first read, not a full house style — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
typical for American LagerOriental Brewery
in no beersin every beer
hoppy
in none of their beers · typical American Lager brewery: 3 in 5
Absent — the field expects it.
Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 30%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
3 / 3
beers above the median
#801
best ranked beer
Cafri

Their beers place in the Top 30% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Oriental Brewery

South Korea's largest brewery by volume, founded in 1948. Now owned by AB InBev. Cass Fresh is Korea's best-selling beer — a clean, light lager that dominates the Korean convenience store and restaurant market. OB's portfolio covers everything from the budget Cass to the premium OB Golden Lager. The beer of Korean BBQ restaurants, PC bangs and late-night pojangmacha street stalls.

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