Black (Kuronama)
Asahi Breweries in Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.01
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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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willisread (9761) reviewed Black (Kuronama) from Asahi Breweries 9 years ago
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.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Black (Kuronama) from Asahi Breweries 10 years ago
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.
Inbreak (10170) reviewed Black (Kuronama) from Asahi Breweries 10 years ago
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.
Gurthnar (14451) reviewed Black (Kuronama) from Asahi Breweries 11 years ago
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.
cuso (17193) reviewed Black (Kuronama) from Asahi Breweries 11 years ago
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.
CambridgeUtd (3880) reviewed Black (Kuronama) from Asahi Breweries 11 years ago
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.
Hermod (17967) reviewed Black (Kuronama) from Asahi Breweries 11 years ago
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.
TET (6603) reviewed Black (Kuronama) from Asahi Breweries 11 years ago
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.
allmyvinyl (21071) reviewed Black (Kuronama) from Asahi Breweries 11 years ago
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.
ninecats (617) reviewed Black (Kuronama) from Asahi Breweries 11 years ago
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.