Alt
Karuizawa Brewery Ltd. in Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵
Altbier Regular|
Score
5.98
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willisread (9741) reviewed Alt from Karuizawa Brewery Ltd. 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can from Daiei in Himonya for the trip home afterwork. Drank straight from the can. Light caramel malt aroma with some candy sugar on the nose. Taste is similar but sweet on the palate. Fairly bland overall, but drinkable. Finish is kind of dry and lingers a little. --- Beer merged from original tick of Alt (赤ビール) on 26 Jun 2015 at 00:08 - Score: 5
jinroh (4381) reviewed Alt from Karuizawa Brewery Ltd. 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
350 ml can from Shinshu Osake Mura @ Shinbashi. Pours clear amber with a large frothy head - that disappears in seconds. Aroma is quite sweet, malty, with a sour plastic note. Taste has some carbonation, caramel malt, mildly bitter touch, relatively short aftertaste. It leaves mouth dry but no lingering taste at all. Not bad (or not enough taste, so it doesn’t taste bad) but not really interesting at all.
omhper (44378) reviewed Alt from Karuizawa Brewery Ltd. 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Canned, from Tokyo Station (Daimaru and Hasegawa Liquors), Tokyo. Clear pale amber, small head. Fruity nose with slight bubblegum and earth. Mid sweet with light body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Bread and blueberry. Low bitterness.
KansaiBeerLovers (8914) reviewed Alt from Karuizawa Brewery Ltd. 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Can also from Le Collier in Tokyo station. It pours into a flute a nice clear amber with a thick foamy beige head. The aroma’s interesting it makes me think of cheesecake or an egg tart that mix of caramel/butterscotch. Definitely more butterscotch than caramel, but it does have some almost chemical notes around the edges which detract from the aroma. The body is on the thin/watery side while the flavor is candy like caramel sweetness with no real hop presence. Drinkable enough but too sweet, much better than that horrible "dark" beer I had from one of their weird frosted bottles. I think I will stick to the cans with these guys, green bottles are too likely to get lightstruck.
Kyotolefty (14846) reviewed Alt from Karuizawa Brewery Ltd. 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can from La Collier. Fruity, malty nose, caramel, cherry, spices somewhat candy-like. Glowing orange-amber with lace. Sweet, caramel and candy malt flavor. Very lightly hopped. Also, the malts are not terribly convincing. All-malt, it says, but it tastes thin. Drinkable, but not very nice. Sweet and simple.