Doppo Pilsner
Miyashita Sake Brewery Co. Ltd. in Okayama-shi, Okayama, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Czech Pilsner / Světlý Regular|
Score
6.28
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home, thanks Kosuke. Clear golden colour, small white head that soon fades. Aroma is sweet maltiness, grainy, bit of bubblegum too. Taste is ok. bit sweet again, like sweetshop sweets, slight citrus bitterness at the finish. Having had a sip of their peach pils I feared the worst, but this is perfectly ok.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
This stubby 250ml (about 300¥) can dates from those early days where I guess to not seem overly pricey compared to macro-beers they had to reduce the size of their cans. The beer itself is a yellow gold beer with a decent though not so long-lasting head. The aroma is a bit too greasy sweet and may even have some butterscotch diacetyl. Medium bodied and fairly dry with a fairly crisp sweet honey bun with herbal hops. The taste is alright but I am not a fan of the aroma. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Canned. Cloudy golden, small head. Sweet and very fruity. Rather harsh and amibgeous, starting out with butter and almondy yeast followed by increasing resiny bitterness. Like an unsuccesful mix of Jever, De Koninck and Weihenstephan.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, as Hiruzen Kogen Beer. Need to give this a re-rate. Rich malt nose, rather Czech in style, Bread, light herbal hops. Rich, bready, malty flavor with Saaz-like hopping. Not outstanding, but a solid Svetly. Quite full, oily body. Yeast seems to add fullness. Medium golden-orange, cloudy. I’m not sure if they changed the recipe since 2009, but I have had this a few times since the first rating, and it was never that bad again. Decent bitterness in the finish. Bottle, 2009: 6/2/5/2/11. Light gold color. Sweet, buttery aroma with cookies and biscuits, and a bit of hops. Very sweet and biscuity flavor, lacking balance. Cloying, with not enough hops. Uninteresting. I expected better.