Sakura
Niigata Beer in Niigata-shi, Niigata, Japan 🇯🇵
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey Regular|
Score
5.98
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thebrewsader (2728) reviewed Sakura from Niigata Beer 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Thanks TimE for the bottle! Poured into a taster showing very dull yellow to white and a finger of clean white foam. The nose shows cherries and sakura. The palate is light bodied and moderately carbonated. A lot of sakura/ bright cherry flavors on the attack. Maraschino cherries on the finish. Seems slightly sweet, but mostly dry. Perhaps a bit too feminine for most. Surprisingly refreshing.
KansaiBeerLovers (8927) reviewed Sakura from Niigata Beer 11 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1
Bottled on March 14th, bought at Yamaoka. Served in a plastic IKEA glass along the Takasegawa in bloom. Light peach fizz looking pour, it is a cloudy orange pink! Incredibly sweet, yeasty, peach & syrupy aroma. The body is light very watery, ultra carbonated. The taste is sweet, sake yeast fruity notes, vanilla & not at all beer like - more like a cocktail or Chu-Hi. This is awful, it tastes like some kind of horrible candy sweet cocktail was filtered through cardboard. Avoid avoid avoid, this was a total drain-pour or rather a Takasegawa pour. I had to open a Tokyo Black to just to wipe the memory of this from my mouth.... Bleh... by far the worst beer I’ve ever had from this brewery.