Alt
Karuizawa Brewery Ltd. in Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵
Altbier Regular|
Score
5.92
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5/10
Tried
on 22 Nov 2025
at 22:13
5.5/10
Thanks Graham B.! This is a bit banana and clove-y but nice.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2025
at 22:11
5.5/10
Malty and a little muted. Thanks for another Nagano tick Graham B.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2025
at 21:58
6.3/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
from
Japan Centre
on 13 Sep 2025
at 18:00
6/10
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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.
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.
Tried
on 31 May 2025
at 14:53
6.1/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2025
at 12:52
6.8/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Apr 2025
at 14:53
6/10
Ok, malty lager.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Aug 2024
at 20:03
5/10
Malty, sweet, light
Tried
from Can
on 22 Jun 2024
at 19:14
6.9/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jun 2023
at 22:46