The Dark
Orion Breweries Limited in Nago, Okinawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Schwarzbier / Black Lager Regular|
Score
6.67
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Light brown-amber. Bright. Medium head. Clean, with brown sugar notes, it's a decent macro dark lager.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2026
at 02:15
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours dark brown with a large off-white head.
Nose shows roasted malt, subtle bready malt, faint smoke and caramel.
Flavours include a bit of roasted and bready malt, little else.
Nose shows roasted malt, subtle bready malt, faint smoke and caramel.
Flavours include a bit of roasted and bready malt, little else.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jan 2026
at 09:30
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can in Okinawa.
Pours dark brown with a medium sized beige head, good lacing. Toasted malts, caramel, nutty, mild metallic taste.
Ok
Pours dark brown with a medium sized beige head, good lacing. Toasted malts, caramel, nutty, mild metallic taste.
Ok
Tried
from Can
on 21 Dec 2025
at 03:30
6.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Can) Pours clear dark brown with big loose tan head. Pleasant aroma of toasted bread although with some boiled vegetable and metallic hints. Light bodied with good carbonation. Dark roast / burnt flavours with vegetable and toffee notes and a bit of balancing acidity. Pleasant enough.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Sep 2025
at 13:59
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Osushi, Coolangatta. Brown/red beer with luscious creamy head. No carbonation. Fruit and malt nose. Smooth texture, really smooth. Light malt. Good lacing. Malty fruity dark lager. Very very nice. Great with Japanese food.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2024
at 10:24
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can, 6C. Deep brown with a dense pale beige head that never quite disappears. Aroma of singed toast with some caramel. Clean, barely sweet with some coffee, caramel and toast. Modest bitterness but enough. Refreshing. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Monsuta Okinawa Dark on 19 May 2024 at 12:39 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: Can. Another Dan Murphy partially-disguised house label beer. Brown with a good inch of pale beige head that fades after a while. Aroma of caramel, some toast, hints of nuts. Pretty sweet but clean and convincingly malty with modest bitterness. Not bad at all.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Nov 2024
at 10:48
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can at the Landronka diskgolf course. Dark amber-red body, off-white head. Dry meaty minerally aroma. Bit smokey, dry, lean taste, caramelly and roasty. Quite okay! And yay for my first Okinawa tick!
Tried
from Can
on 12 Aug 2024
at 15:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can shared in Forbes, Black colour with a tan head. Aroma and taste are roasted coffee bitter, crisp light body.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Mar 2024
at 21:15