Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can at the lodging in Kyoto - picked up at 7-Eleven. Pours clear gold, effervescent, with a creamy white head. The nose has some white bread, a little honey, dough. Light-medium sweet flavour with notes of pae grains, simple white bread, low bitterness. Light bodied with average carbonation. Finishes with more sweet, pae bread, some grainy accents, white sugar. Very, very basic.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from the Antarabangsa Enterprise, Penang, Malaysia. Poured a clear straw colour with a short-lived fizzy white head and lots of bubbles. The aroma is sweet malt, light hop. The flavour is moderate sweet, light bitter with a light, crisp, light fruit, light mineral, floral hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with lively carbonation.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
pale dirty dishwater color. Very strange taste that is light with eggplant and just a bit of chemically strange aftertaste. Not sure what to think
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home late night, I blew my internal budget on a perry I wanted so skimped on sake and got what I paid for. Yellowish pour not what looking for in daiginjo. Nose is almond and melon. Taste of almond milk, honey dew, rice, white raisins. Syrupy and not clean palate. Eh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled 330ml. -from 8 a Huit Val Thorens as Kyoto Yamadanishiki Ale. Unclear yellow coloured, medium sized white head, mild grainy nose. Sweetish malty, light yeasty, some grain and rice with slightly acidic finish. So-so.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottled 330ml. -from 8 a Huit Val Thorens as Kyoto Flavor of Sake Brewery. Golden coloured, small white head, weak grassy nose. Sweetish malty, rice, some notes of grass and fruits with short bitter finish. Rather plain brew.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled 330ml. -from 8 a Huit Val Thorens. Unclear yellow/golden coloured, medium sized white head, some canned corn in the nose. Sweetish malty, bready, light grassy hops and notes of hay with touch of fruits in rather short and almost neutral finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle from Suvaco/Kyoto Isetan. Kizakura Kamo Eggplant (Nasu) 5% I was expecting something purple but this is your typical pale lager looking beer but it has a fruity aroma.
Very light seltzer like body. The initial flavor is fruity, then cardboard thin light maltiness and it finishes with dirt like notes. Better than the Chili beer... But both are just odd...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from Suvaco/Kyoto Isetan. Kizakura Fushimi Tougarashi (pepper) beer 5% It pours a surprising pale opaque gold with a fizzy white head, it looks like a lager.
It has a big vegetal pepper aroma, think freshly sliced pizza toppings.
Light bodied with a scratchy carbonation, the taste is full on Tougarashi pepper. Vegetal, green, not much heat but more like a vegetable drink than a beer. Just weird...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
330 ml bottle from Suvaco in Kyoto Station. Now, fushimi chilis are generally sweet, but this has a hot chili nose. Spicy and green, vegetal, a touch of lemon. Veg is coming through much more than in the Eggplant beer. I find the nose extremely unpleasant. Slightly pale gold, hazy, with low head. A shade deeper than the other. Flavor is better than the nose. Lightly spicy peppers, green pepper, lemon. Tastes a bit like a roasted sweet chili with lemon juice squeezed over it. Body is light, with rather low carbonation. There is a tingly, peppery chili finish with a touch of hops, maybe. Nothing great about this, but it makes for a laughable and slightly drinkable gimmick. The veg character is much more prominent here than in the eggplant beer (for better or for worse).