Tap. Clear golden color with white head. Aroma is herbal, earthy, pale malts. Taste is pale malts, some grapefruit, estery, herbal spices. Oily mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Refreshing.

Sampled @ Borefts Beer Festival 2017. A almost clear pale golden beer with a small white head. Aroma of herbs, spices and pale. Taste of herbs, ginger, medicine, herbal finish.

Tap at Borefts 2017. Clear pale straw with white head. Dry grains, lots of ginger, dry minerals. Soft flowers too maybe. Light sweet, lots of ginger bitterness. Light bodied.

Borefts 2017 day 2. Unclear yellow golden with thin white head. Sweet malts, tangerine, grassiness. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of Miyama Blonde Shoubu on 24 Dec 2017 at 14:29 - Score: 7. Original review text: 3.4

Keg at De Molen 2017 Friday... Golden amber.. Thin white lacing.. Soft zezty floral fruits nose.. Soft sherbert orange fruits.. Light dry grassy bitter finish

Japanse but basically Belgian-style spice beer spiced with sweet flags, a swamp plant I vividly remember visually and aromatically from my childhood as it has been introduced in western Europe in the mid-16th century and got quite well established here. Bottle shared by tderoeck, cheers! Moussy, bubbly, snow white, lightly lacing head, hazy yellowish golden beer. Aroma indeed reminiscent of the sweet-and-spicy, almost ginger-like fragrance of sweet flag rhizomes, overruling subtler hints of green banana, white bread, soap, apple peel and unripe pear. Fruity onset, bit estery with pear and unripe banana notes, green melon, sourish green kiwi touch, medium fizz, cereally and 'white' bready malt base; the sweet spiciness of the sweet flags dominates retronasally, ginger- or galanga-like, 'Asian' as it were, with breadiness, some residual sweetishness and a herbal hop bitterish accent below. I will never be the greatest fan of spice ales to begin with but this one is admittedly well-made, technically correct and very 'Belgian' in style.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Shiga Kogen Miyama Blonde Shoubu (by Tamamura-Honten (Shiga Kogen Beer)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

8/IX/17 - 33cl bottle from a trade @ home with Alengrin - BB: n/a (2017-1487) Thanks to brokenshoulder for the trade!

Little cloudy yellow to orange beer, small creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: bit sweetish, caramel touch, some banana, yeast touch, some marzipan. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet, spicy, yeast, some banana, bit herbal, some galanga root maybe? Aftertaste: little sweet, soft bitterness, yeast, banana, yeast character in general, bit metallic, spicy touch, pretty dry finish, bit medicinal, bitter finish.

Bottle from Tanakaya. Pours a clear gold with a tiny white head that dissipates almost instantly. Nose is spicy with some ginger, cardamom and arugula on the nose. Body is kind of watery with a nice bitterness present on the palate. Some rhubarb light sweetness present as well? Must be the shobu coming through. Some light fennel and nutmeg on the finish. Interesting beer. --- Beer merged from original tick of Miyama Blonde Shoubu on 06 Aug 2015 at 19:45 - Score: 7

Pours nice golden with a thin head that does not really stay. Looks maybe a bit watery. Aroma has some funny anise, herbs, something sweet and medicine-like. taste is also bitter and this anise flavour sort of overpowers everything else. I guess that is this "sweet flag" or whatever it is (googled it, wow, this waterweed is sweet flag? interesting...). Well considering that they are using this weed that does not look even edible, this beer tastes surprisingly nice. Pretty cool actually, I do like the innovative spirit of Shiga Kogen. Overall, unique beer that I cannot really say that I like - but I do have great respect for this experiment.