Matsumoto Brewery Traditional Bitter

Traditional Bitter

 

Matsumoto Brewery in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵

  Bitter Regular
Score
6.74
ABV: 4.0% IBU: 20 Ticks: 6
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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Draft, but they also had cask: Poured a golden amber color with a creamy off white head. Aroma is full on malts. Taste is malty, light caramel.

Tried from Draft at Bakushu Club Popeye on 29 Nov 2025 at 08:16


7

Malty, bit of sweetness, caramel. Pretty good.

Tried on 25 Mar 2024 at 09:06


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Copper. Malty with some fuller citrus notes. Finish is toasted grain. Solid.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Apr 2022 at 08:10


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from the brewery. Pours clear amber, just some carbonation, bubbles seem to be large at first but quite soon they are gone. Aroma sweetish and caramelly as you would expect from a bitter, not very hoppy. Taste similar, caramel, nice clean bitterness, some sweetness and well drinkable. A bit watery as well maybe - but this is only 4% abv beer. Overall, simple bitter, OK.

Tried from Bottle on 15 May 2017 at 10:30


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

Copper color. Very minerally malt focused nose. Seems pretty British. Medium body with decent hop notes of apricots, slightly sweet. Kinda new world take on a Bitter but pretty decent. Decent.

Tried on 21 Aug 2016 at 04:00


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tap at the brewery tap room. Mineral nose, some caramel, earthy hops, light lemon / orange. Crisp flavor, caramel and biscuit, spicy English hop. Decent bitter.

Tried from Draft on 06 Aug 2016 at 19:12