French Rouge
Suntory Liquors Limited in Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵
Fruit Beer Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.39
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Made to celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau’s arrival in Japan. This pseudo-beer pours a handsome purplish-red that evokes it’s namesake capped with a pinkish-white fizzy head of foam which does in fact leave some lacing behind. The nose is a tart, definitely wine-like fruitiness that isn’t half-bad. It is fairly thin bodied with a somewhat artificial character to it(no big surprise there) but once again the flavor is decent - cassis, grapes, semi-sweet with a dry finish. My biggest complaint is it seems to be too gassy. Not too shabby for something of this sort
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed French Rouge from Suntory Liquors Limited 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can from Family Mart. Pours a deep, pretty red, clear, but with a fine airy head that reads something bad. Somewhat funky nose of cassis, biscuity malts, rose wine, a touch of honey and buttered bread. Weird, but not bad. flavor is tart and sweet cassis berries, creamy vanilla, wheat, and something a bit weird. not all that bad at all, though. A bit wine-like, a bit of alcohol. The berries are strong, and there is a bit of funk that is almost wild yeast, but it’s not, there is then a bit of chemical stuff that shows what this beer is made of. It almost transcended the shite category it is. Well done, better than expected, though could be great if it was only a real beer.