Can, 5.5%. Clear golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hop, citrus, grapes and a little earthy. Flavour is malt, fruit, hop, little sweet, grapes, spicy, little earthy and medium bitter.

Can. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are citrus, malt, grass, fruits and hops. Nice and easy drinkable.

Bottled at Narita Airport. Clear pale bronze colour, small head. Generous grapefruit aroma. Mid sweet with solid body and rounded mouthfeel. Citric hops and bready malt. Long bitter finish. Harmonious.

Bottle from Oto Market in Sacramento, CA. Pours light golden amber with a slight white head. Aroma is light fruit - melon? grape? Med body or nearly. Flavor is grapey with a touch of citrus, plus breadiness. Certainly much tastier than the average sweet Vienna.

Updated Rating Jan 2015 ---Won a silver medal in the American Style Amber Lager catagory at the 2014 World Beer Awards. What started off as a Vienna Lager now seems to be an India Pale Lager this pours a deep gold with a fruity hoppy nose of light pine and citrus. Not sure when this beer changed but it is nothing like what I had before. The body is light with a decent mouthfeel. The taste is a clean crisp hoppy pine, good malt light character with a dry finish. Easy drinking at a nice price. ----original rating 2013---- A can from Eki-marche in Osaka station at 280 yen. Drunk on the train home staright from the can. A subtle dark malt aroma, malts then some hops. a pretty nice smell. The flavor is a bit too one dimensional hop bitterness over a malt backbone, kind of a rough finish. Not bad but it could be better with a bit of tweaking. Ok but fairly average, the top quality ingredients don’t really gel together so much... as it warmed up it mellowed out and the malts stepped up to counterbalance the hops and the roughness became more subdued. I think you should drink this in the 12-15C range for best results.

Draught at Craft Heads, Tokyo. Clear golden colour with a white head. Caramel, honey aroma. Sweet hops, caramel flavour.

Bottle from a high quality food store in Tokyo, Japan. An amber/brown coloured pour with a small off white head on top. Hoppy, malty aroma. Tastes hoppy, malty, caramel, slight sweetness. Smooth and easydrinking. Enjoyable.

Tangerines on top of oranges and brandy. Dry hoppy and drinkable. Nothing too hardcore, but nice.

Draught at Molto. Pretty medium amber-orange color with lace. Grassy hop nose, light Vienna malt and citrus. Light and clean flavor, crackers, with bread, light caramel and big grassy hop. Very drinkable and nice. A bit of Nelson-esque catpiss too, but just a touch. Much better than the old recipe.