Black (Kuronama)
Asahi Breweries in Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.01
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Bottle & can: Pasteurised.
Ingredients: Dark roasted malt; hops; rice; maize; Asahi’s pure cultured yeast.
Japan’s favourite dark beer. Brewed in Osaka, Asahi Black is made from three different roasted malts. This gives it a rich, nutty flavour and makes it incredibly smooth-drinking. Unlike other, more bitter dark beers and stouts, it’s brewed in a process called bottom fermentation, which gives it a subtle, sweet edge and smooth 5% abv.
Ingredients: Dark roasted malt; hops; rice; maize; Asahi’s pure cultured yeast.
Japan’s favourite dark beer. Brewed in Osaka, Asahi Black is made from three different roasted malts. This gives it a rich, nutty flavour and makes it incredibly smooth-drinking. Unlike other, more bitter dark beers and stouts, it’s brewed in a process called bottom fermentation, which gives it a subtle, sweet edge and smooth 5% abv.
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5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Light roasted malt nose with some toasted caramel. Sweet but not overly so. Some weird notes as it warms: fishy and slightly natto like. Not bad overall though.
Tried
on 20 Apr 2016
at 08:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Clear deep amber brown color, large beige head with good retention. Aroma of burnt caramel. Taste is sweet, sticky, malty caramel. Tasty. My 100th tmavy rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2015
at 12:38
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
30.04.2014, 0,33l bottle @ Sushi Lovers Torvehallerne, Copenhagen:
Nice light brown creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sour-ish, minerals, dark malts, grass, licorice, hay, roasted grain. Taste is slightly dry malty, dark malts, grass, licorice, minerals, roasted grain, hay, paper. Medium bitterness, slightly dry mineraly mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Nice light brown creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sour-ish, minerals, dark malts, grass, licorice, hay, roasted grain. Taste is slightly dry malty, dark malts, grass, licorice, minerals, roasted grain, hay, paper. Medium bitterness, slightly dry mineraly mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2015
at 15:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from Seoul Plaza. Aroma washing cloth, yet at the same time chocolate, dark malt notes, which seem promising. Very dark colour, clear. Moderately sized head, very short duration. Taste actually quite acceptable, maybe even slightly enjoyable. Simple, roasted flavours, toffee, chocolate. Initially rather sweet, eventually bitterness slides in to balance things in the finish. Okay beer. Easily drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2015
at 07:50
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle from Seoul plaza, Bratislava. Dark brown color with medium beige head. Caramel malt, chocolate, nuts. Sweet caramel malty taste with coffee, nuts, rice. Maybe this is Japan’s favourite dark beer, but definitely not mine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2015
at 11:12
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle 33cl. Black with a minimal light brown head. Aroma of malt, coffee and some soy sauce sence. Light bitter with a minimal malt end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2014
at 15:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
334ml bottle from Alko. Poured near black with a thin, but lasting brown head. Aroma has soy sauce, roasted malt and hint of coffee. Flavor is roasty, smooth and has some coffee and cocoa notes. Thin body, dryish finish. Overall quite tasty. Leans more towards Schwarzbier than Dunkel IMO.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2014
at 04:05
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
A very dark brown, slightly red beer with a medium, and beige head. Thenose is malty, bread, slightly roasted, also sweet berries. Taste has bread, some roastiness, tense. Medium bodied, quite harsh palate. Not very convincing beer, quite tasteless and tense.
Tried
on 02 Oct 2014
at 08:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
330ml bottle at home. Pours clear brown, thin, short-lived tan head. Aromas of light roast, liquorice. Taste is more liquorice, light sweet note. Decent body, long finish. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2014
at 07:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours deep brown with a lighty brown foam, settles fast. Roasted malt, pear and light floral hops in the aroma, taste is initially roasted malt, light coffee and dried fruit and then quite fast a dry finish. Medium body, low to medium carbo. Stylistically true.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2014
at 14:40