6.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 7

Can from Japan Centre, Piccadilly, London. A nice looking brew- copper-coloured with a yellowy-cream head. Rather a metallic aroma, and the mouthfeel is a tad thin with rather a prickly fizz. However, the flavours make up for it - it's fruity and malty, with brown bread coming through at the end. Overall not a bad alt.

6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 5.5

Panda at home, thanks to Graham Grumbo, 31/05/2025.
Copper pour with an off white cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is stewed fruits, biscuit, straw, grains, herb.
Taste comprises light tangy fruits, biscuit, herb, hint of green apple.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close.
So so affair.

6.1

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

Can from Yutaka, London. It pours clear deep amber - brown with sturdy white head. The aroma is sappy, resinous, varnished wood, cereal , nuttiness and brown bread. The taste is drying, toothy, woody, bitter - sweet, dried fruits, raisin, sultana, touch of acidity, ryvita, earth, toasty cereals and nut with a drying finish. Average carbonation and moderate carbonation. Not much depth of flavour, but drinkable.

6.8

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

26/4/2025. Can bought from Yutaka Shop online. Pours clear bronze brown with a frothy off-white head. Decent pour. Aroma is malted, sweet, caramel, brown bread, dried fruits, hints of stollen cake. Fairly sweet, moderate bitterness and body. Oily. Prickly carbonation. Decent alt effort.

6

Ok, malty lager.

5

Malty, sweet, light

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

350ml can from Japan Centre, London as part of a delivery and drunk at home. Pours a reasonably deep reddish brown, crystal clear with a ring of off-white head. Basic malty aroma, hints of caramel, not a whole lot going on here but pleasant enough. Delicious sweet taste, very malt-led, a little artificial perhaps but very refreshing. Getting more caramel and perhaps a little stone fruit. More balance in the short finish with some bitter hop and metallic bitterness. Oily body, carbonation on the heavy side. I’m bucking the trend and saying I like this one.

6

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

Can from Japan Centre online. Pours clear copper with a thin off-white head. Aromas of toffee and nuts. Taste is more of the same. Sweet finish.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Can from Japan Centre, Piccadilly, London. Pours clear mahogany amber with a beige head. Aroma: malt, sweet bread, caramel, light toffee, nutty hints. Taste: light to moderate sweet & moderate bitter, grains, sweet bready malt, caramel, molasses, toffee, caramelised brown sugar, nutty, herbal, dry-ish finish. Light to medium body with soft carbonation.

6

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

Deep crisp amber and copper coloured body with a nice two to three centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of sticky and caramelised sugars with a light dose of toffee, some earth, a bit of nuts and a fairly large malt presence around. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong nutty and herbal flavours at first that show some rice and off/specialty grains around the edges with a touch of nutty and earthiness, but all finishing with some good and fairly well-defined caramel and sugar sweetness with a bit of nutty flavours towards the finish with a little bitterness, but all derived from sugar and malts. Aftertaste shows the grainy and sticky malt qualtities with only a handful of other flavours noticeable with some light toffee, subdued rice and earthy nuttiness at the end, but finishes a bit subdued and mild. Overall, a nice enough alt, and showing enough style-specific qualities, where this is passable for sure, especially considering the place and country of origin- this isn't a bad option at all. I sampled this 350 mL can purchased from World Liqour Mart here in Daimon, Tokyo, Japan for 288JPY on 03-August-2019 sampled two days later here in my hotel room in Tokyo, Japan on 05-August-2019.