Spring Valley Brewery Copeland

Copeland

 

Spring Valley Brewery in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵

  Lager - Pilsener Regular
Score
6.32
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 27 Ticks: 5
A new dimension of pilsner named after W. Copeland (*). A beer that becomes a "place to return to," making you want to drink it again after enjoying other beers, not just for your first drink. It has a complex harmony of the umami and sweetness of malt, the high-quality aroma of aroma hops, and the bitterness.

(*) Founder of Spring Valley Brewery, the founder of the Japanese beer industry.

■maker: Toshihiro Kamata

Specification
OG (Original Gravity) = 13.0°P
Original gravity. It represents the strength of the wort before fermentation of that beer. The higher this value, the more the beer's body and alcohol content increase. It is sometimes called an original extract.

IBU (Bitterness Unit) = 26.5
It's an international bitter unit, and it depends on the type, amount, and usage of hops used in the beer. Generally, it increases in proportion to the bitterness of the beer.

ABV (Alcohol Strength) = 5.5% (v/v)
Alcohol content: 5.5%

Color = 10.0 EBC
A numerical value that represents the color depth of beer.
(General pilsner beers in Japan are around 6-8 EBC.)

Key Hop = Czech Saaz (Bale)
Czech Saaz is a Czech hop characterized by its rich, deep aroma and high-quality bitterness. The "bale" indicates that it uses marijuana hops. Often, hops are made in the form of compressed pellets. )

Filtration = Unfiltered
It's an unfiltered beer that hasn't been removed from the yeast.
 

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

Can in Okinawa.
Pours clear dark golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Malty, grassy, earthy, floral.
Good

Tried from Can on 03 Jan 2026 at 06:05


5.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

Draft at Spring Valley Brewing, Kyoto. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of grain, light hops, floral notes and light malt. Flavour is light sweet and bitter. Light bodied with light carbonation.

Tried from Draft at Spring Valley Brewery Kyoto on 15 May 2019 at 23:54


5.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3.5

Worst of the bunch.Tasting Set at Spring Valley Kyoto, brewed in Shiga. Grainy sweet aroma, taste is the same on a medium full body. Tastes like a decent macro-lager but not a crisp dry Pilsner.

Tried on 21 Sep 2017 at 22:10


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

Nice yellow golden pour, not very foamy. Aroma has slight grain character, bit of hay. Taste is full on malty, bready and grainy, a bit of crisp bitterness there as well, works wonders with official cucumber pairing. Saaz hops seem to work with cucumber quite nicely. Finish is short. Well, I would say this one is quite OK pilsner, nothing special but decent.

Tried on 27 Jun 2017 at 01:09


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tap at the Daikanyama brew pub. Nicely fruity Saaz nose, oranges, not much malt detected. Medium golden color. Sweet and fruity, nice hop, but not lagered enough. Sweet, thin, oily. The malt character is more pale lager than pilsner.

Tried from Draft on 24 May 2015 at 19:21