Traditional Bitter
Matsumoto Brewery in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵
Bitter Regular|
Score
6.83
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7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Smell of malt, faint caramel. Deep copper colour, beige head. Aroma of sweet malt, caramel, some grassy hops. Soft carbon. Medium sweet. Pleasant.
Tried
from Draft
at
Bakushu Club Popeye (Popeye Beer Club)
on 18 May 2026
at 03:38
6.4/10
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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 (Popeye Beer Club)
on 29 Nov 2025
at 08:16
7/10
Malty, bit of sweetness, caramel. Pretty good.
Tried
on 25 Mar 2024
at 09:06
6.9/10
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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
6.8/10
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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
7/10
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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
6.5/10
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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