I'm not a beer person, but their logo made a huge impression on me when I was at an impressionable age, thanks to wasting so much of my childhood watching the Japanese-language station in Hawai'i. The commercials straight from the olde country were always some of the trippiest bits of programming (I swear I still get earwormed with the Lipovitan jingle every time I hit the Asian groceries, and I haven't even seen that ad in twenty years!), and Kirin had one of the coolest ones -- there was an animated sequence with the logo-kirin, drawn in the same style of course, galloping through the clouds...

Man, I wish I could find a clip of that on YouTube or something. I'm sure the production quality wouldn't hold up compared to my memory, but in my mind's eye I can still see it and he looked so very magical and elegant in motion...