But when the weather really starts to heat up this summer, it will be hard to keep that beer in your hand at the optimum temperature. If you’ve had a frozen-foam-topped Kirin beer from Dodger ...

The company's new Ichiban Shibori Frozen Draft stays at a low temperature thanks to a specially-developed machine that dispenses a topping of frozen beer foam like soft serve ice cream.

Apparently, it is just what it looks like — frozen foam, on a beer. The Japanese brewing company Kirin — the one that makes those light, refreshing ales we drink at Americanized sushi places ...

Kirin’s latest beer innovation looks a lot like something else we love: soft-serve ice cream. Though they’re dubbing it Ichiban Shibori Frozen Draft, probably to keep the kiddies from catching on.

Japanese beer company Kirin has developed a beer that comes with a special frozen foam head that is added to the top of the drink using a machine similar to a Mr Whippy-style soft ice cream dispenser.

Asahi, Kirin, Sapporo, they're all rolling out pale lagers as their biggest sellers. The design team had a goal in mind: the 7:3 "golden" ratio of beer to foam. They investigated bubble formation ...