Asahi Breweries Black (Kuronama)

Black (Kuronama)

 

Asahi Breweries in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵

  Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular Out of Production
Score
6.03
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 80
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.
 

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5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
bottle gift from nice barman at the old "cafe lasse" at vesterbro, now an asian restaurant. clear dark brown, smooth very light brown head. faint roasted grains, faint metallic aroma. flavor is roasted grains, almost smoked, brown sugar, sugary roasted stuff. palate is pretty thin and watery overall a decent macro attempt at a black beer, but it do seem like they sort of economized most of the good flavors away. Abselutely decent cheap macro though.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Apr 2010 at 16:45

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 7
Pours black with a small beige head. Mild aroma of lightly roasted malt and cocoa. That’s how it tastes too, with a little hazelnut in the slightly oily body. Easily the best Japanese beer I’ve had.
Tried on 16 Mar 2010 at 04:05

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Pours very dark brown with copper highlights and a small tan creamy head.Soft, sweet aroma of roasted barley, tar, and faint hints of cocoa. Other than that, very clean.First up in the flavour department is some toasty and bready sweet malt, before a moderately roasty note kicks in along with some chocolate hints, with support the gently bitter finish.Carbonation is much too high, and the body is very watery.
Tried on 09 Mar 2010 at 02:20

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Dark brown with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of caramel and toffee. Dry and roasted grainy malt flavour
Tried on 26 Jul 2009 at 13:10

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle from a Sashimi sushi bar in Aarhus. Brewed in England. Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Very dark brown colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. Light roasted. Moderate bitter flavor. Light roasted and chocolate notes. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate. A little thin but ok.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Jun 2009 at 08:55

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle from Sashimi Sushi in Aarhus. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, coffee, caramel and hops.
Tried from Bottle on 02 May 2009 at 16:19

5.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pours with a small tan head over a dark brown body. Aroma of coffee, rice, biscuity. Bland and weak. Taste is light roast, adjunct filled, light ash. Thin, fizzy and forgettable except for the fact that they are charging $14.99 for a 6 pack!
Tried from Bottle on 20 Apr 2009 at 11:20

5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
334 ml bottle at Haket, GöteborgOn March 6, 2009BB 23/06/2009Clear dark red to black color, big brown head. Malty, grainy, slight acidic, chocolate scent. Thin, grainy, malty, salty taste. Thin mouthfeel, low bitterness.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2009 at 06:59

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. Near black with no head and slight carbonation. Sweet caramel aroma with a touch of roastiness. Flavour was much the same, with some chocolate thrown into the mix and a Camp Coffee finish. Ok.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2009 at 17:32

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 2 Overall 5
Bottle. Very faint caramel aroma. Slight caramel and chocolate flavor. Way too fizzy and gassy. Thin too. Nothing finish. Drinkable, but not interesting. A bit better on draught. The label calls it Munich style, which would make it a Dunkel.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Jan 2009 at 20:36