Nihonkai Club - Oku Noto Beer Dark Lager

Dark Lager

 

Nihonkai Club - Oku Noto Beer in Hosu, Ishikawa, Japan 🇯🇵

  Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular
Score
7.12
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 8
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5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

250mls at CBM, pours a watery cola brown with some creamy, beige head.  Nose has malt, yeast, metal.  Flavor is a bit flabby too much crystal malt maybe?  Otherwise sweet with cream soda and bread.  Watery finish.  6 3 6 2 10

Tried on 15 Mar 2020 at 17:45


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Tap at Gar Eden. Sweet malty aroma, bit of caramel. Taste is lightly burnt, malty again, good stuff. Light treacle. Little bit of bitterness at the end. Good stuff.

Tried from Draft on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:02


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

On tap at ibrew Akihabara. Pours a almost pitch black color with a medium beige head. A light malty nose. Chocolate, light roast, licorice. Really smooth. Solid.

Tried from Draft on 30 Jun 2019 at 12:20


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at Beerfes Kamikochi 2015. Pours dark brown, edging on black. Bit of beige-brownish foam. Aroma is clean, a bit of roast coming through. Taste is actually surprising for me. There is good amount of body and roast is also medium strong. Normally I have expected Dunkel’s to be more watery and they usually have had some lagery cardboard character. Not here. This could even pass as a dry stout, has the body and flavour. Surprise for me.

Tried from Draft on 26 Jul 2015 at 19:19


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

On tap at CBM Jimbocho. Dark brown with a small beige head. Very subtle aromas of malt, toffee, coffee and caramel chew with a hint of resiny hops. Taste is very subtle and muted on the palate. The coffee and caramel chew come out nicely. Mildly creamy mouthfeel with a medium body. Medium carbonation with a nice dry finish. Great stuff. --- Beer merged from original tick of Dark Lager on 06 Jun 2015 at 15:00 - Score: 7

Tried from Draft on 29 Mar 2015 at 08:59


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap at the GJBF in Osaka 2014. Very dark brown. 5% light caramel aroma, medium to light bodied. The taste is a well balanced light chocolate malts and just the slightest hint of roastiness. Probably the subtlest dark lager I have seen in Japan but great.

Tried from Draft on 21 Jul 2014 at 03:43


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Drank after not having for a few years. Very nice stuff and a lot more roasted character and body than i remember before. I just came back from Czech a couple months ago and this would be very respectable. Raising from 3.4 score Original Light mouth, nice toffee, coffee character. Definitively Czech style dark lager. Refreshing with a decent amount of hops. Nice.

Tried on 28 Jul 2011 at 06:42


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draught at the brewery. Deep, shiny black with a lovely tan head. Rich, flavorful dark malts. Not very sweet, though, like a big hunk of black bread. Rich and dry. Very nice and drinkable. Steady and smooth.

Tried on 04 Jul 2010 at 19:59