Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
One-cup. Clear colour Nice marcipan aroma. MOderate marcipan flavor. Average finish. Oily palate. Nice futsu-shu.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
One cup bottle. No head. Color is water. Aroma and taste are almonds, rice malt and alcohol. Full bodied and warming. Decent sake.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
33 cl bottle @ hotel room, kyoto. Production date 15.07.11
Aroma has slightly sweet, a bit cornish malt. Flavour is also malty, grainy and sweet, but slightly stale and harsh. Has also some sake elements like footsweat and rice. Drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Rounded, estery aroma with umami and honey. Slightly funky, with citrus, wood, rice flavor and a nice sour edge. Ok stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle. Rich, worty nose, malts and grains, plus some soft citrus. Interesting deep gold color with a nice head—looks about normal. Thin, somewhat watery body. Flavor of Wheaties, barley,and some Sprite. Big grainy, bready character. This is an inoffensive grain-flavored soda pop with a bit of hop grassiness and bitterness. Tastes little like beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
Lost my track through Japan beers, sorry 2010-06-05, thx to deft AP: golden body, white head, cs color, white head. ¨medum low bitternes
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
At a beer tasting on JMune 5, 2010, thanks to deft!Hazy golden color, white head. Sweet, apple taste. Sweet apple scent. Thin mouthfeel, low bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Clear, deep red color with lace. Aroma of cherry, butter, and sweet, light malt. Tastes like their kolsch with cherry added. A bit too much diacetyl. Decent cherry flavor, light, not too sweet, but not all that interesting either. Rice is included in the recipe. Not bad. Decent bitter finish. Rather bland but inoffensive.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
180 ml cup sake, in a box, with a little piece of Blowfish fin in a ziplock with it. Following the directions, I put the fin into the cup and heated it in the microwave. Interesting aroma of smoky fish, sweet rice. Quite food-like. Smoky, salty flavor, with some rice, and a bit of fruity sweetness. Leaving the fish in there a couple hours and coming back to it proved too much--overwhelming. Had to thin it out with some Kinbishi. Strange and interesting, for sure. Goes well with, well, fish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
300 ml bottle form the brewery. Aroma of vanilla, melon, banana. Sweetish and rich. Fruity, sweet flavor of caramel, grapes, vanilla, banana. Too flowery and cloying. Ok but not good.