Nagano Gold
Slow Hand Beer Co. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Collab with: Northern Alps VineyardsLager - Rice Regular
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Score
6.53
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Japanese Golden Rice Lager 🍺🌾 Brewed in collaboration with Northern Alps Brewery of Omachi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
Southern BC and Nagano Prefecture are similar in many ways: both feature prime agricultural land nestled among mountains, both have populations who enjoy year round outdoor recreation, and in both places it’s common practice to finish a day of adventuring with a cold, delicious beer.
Nagano Gold is brewed with rice from Nagano, Canadian & German malt, and BC hops. It’s a crisp and dry Japanese style rice lager perfect while golfing on a hot summer day, for après ski in the cold of winter, and anything in between.
Southern BC and Nagano Prefecture are similar in many ways: both feature prime agricultural land nestled among mountains, both have populations who enjoy year round outdoor recreation, and in both places it’s common practice to finish a day of adventuring with a cold, delicious beer.
Nagano Gold is brewed with rice from Nagano, Canadian & German malt, and BC hops. It’s a crisp and dry Japanese style rice lager perfect while golfing on a hot summer day, for après ski in the cold of winter, and anything in between.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
473mL can, pour a hazy blonde with a medium white head. Nose is pretty laid-back, with soft rice and straw-notes. Flavour is much the same, with lightly sweet, doughy, biscuity malt, straw, and a touch of sushi rice. Clean and easy-drinking, but how good could this possibly be?
Tried
from Can
from
Jak's Beer-Wine-Spirits - South Granville
on 09 Feb 2026
at 05:56
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Threefold. Pours clear blonde with a white head. Very gentle rice and grass on the nose. Flavour has a very gentle sake-like rice character, cracker malts, a good amount dry grass. It's clean and crisp, but pretty uninteresting.
Tried
from Draft
at
Threefold
on 28 Aug 2025
at 19:14