Amber Swan Ale
Hyouko Yashiki No Mori Brewery (Swan Lake) in Agano, Niigata, Japan 🇯🇵
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
7.12
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
On tap at Beer Rize, New Year's Eve. Our 3rd year here for NYE dinner and drinks. Pours clear dark amber with a medium sized beige head, good lacing. Caramel malts, toast, bitters. Good
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Popeye, pours a clear amber with a small beige head. Aroma brings out bready malt and very subdued earthiness. Flavour is more nicely hopped, with bready malt, dry toffee and some earthy resinous hops. Nicely constructed and balanced. Fine for the style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Keg at pub Edo. Clear amber brown color with small beige head. Aroma is malty, bit of fruit, spicy kick. Taste, malty sweetness, lots of spice, maybe ginger, and spikiness. Finish is fading spice and a touch of bitterness. Not bad.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Draft at Ant ‘n Bee, Tokyo. Clear amber with an off white head. Aroma of malt, caramel, cardboard and fruity hops. Flavour is above moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap at Ant n Bee, Tokyo. Poured a clear medium amber with a lasting frothy white head. The aroma is toffee caramel malt, mineral, earthy, woody hop. The flavour is moderate bitter, light sweet, with a smooth, rich, grainy toffee malt, light fudge, woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average to soft carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap pours out amber topped with a sand head. Nose is nice sweet caramel malts a touch of roast herbal hops and a little nutty wood note. Taste is more of the nice nutty wood grain malts some caramel sweetness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draught @ LBK Craft, Nara. Pours reddish orange with a smooth head. Aroma of caramely malts, pine and toffee. Taste is smooth, slightly caramely malty with some pine and resin. Finish is smooth, slightly crisp and sweetish with some pine and caramel. Okay.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
On tap at Popeye’s. Pours a clear amber color with a small white head. A nice soft fruity nose, caramel. Smooth toast, caramel, light citrus. Very clean.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Waseda oktoberfest. Pours nice amber, looking beautifully clear in the glass. Some bubbles. Aroma has some roast caramel, bit of herbal hops. Mainly roast though. Taste is roast bitter. Clean and actually very nice. Had this from a bottle many times before but tap version really is nicer. Thumbs up!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Aroma is tropic fruit, some floral hops, no resin. Quite dry, only a little of everything. Nice fine bubbled mouthfeel. Not bad.