Bottle from Bine & Vine.Pours like clear water. For me the aroma suggests greenish melon. Rather \"medium\" body. Flavor is clean with melon notes. Mostly for me there’s not a lot of flavor, unless it’s \"rice\". The heat hardly burns. This is very smooth.

Bottle (from Koht). Pours dark amber-ruby with light beige head. The head stays. Aroma is sweet, caramel, fruits. Flavor is sweet and malty, fruits, caramel. Overall: ok.

A hazy golden beer with a huge white head. The aroma has notes of straw and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and straw, leading to a bitter finish.

How: Bottle.

Where: From an asian store in Copenhagen.

Appearance: Clear colour, no head.

Aroma: Rice, some fruit.

Body: Light body, no carbonation.

Flavour: Rice, alcohol, some fruit.

2016 Kizakura Pumpkin Ale 5% Available at Isetan in Kyoto and Asahiya in Osaka. I had this at last year’s Bincan Fest by Minami Harborland in Namba. At that time it was a pretty one dimensional cinnamon bomb so let’s see how they do this year now that they’re canning it in these festive Jack-o-lantern cans. Served in a half-pint glass, it’s a cloudy brushed copper color with a soapy head of foam. As opposed to last year’s cinnamon overload, this year it’s very much on the fruity side and also unfortunately includes a dose of diacetyl but it doesn’t clash as much as expected - it just feels kind of muddled. Light bodied with a sweet candy flavor, for some reason I’m thinking candy corn. Underattenuated and with a minimal spice component. This is a completely different beast from last year. I think 2015’s version was a wholly spiced ale but this one is a kabocha beer. I applaud the experimentation and hope 2017’s version becomes a clean mix of fruit(pumpkin flesh) and spice. 2015 Kizakura Pumpkin 5% Limited brew for Halloween on tap at the Bincan Fes. It pours a nice golden orange. The aroma is liquid vanilla and possibly cinnamon. Very spritzy and sharp carbonation with a light body. The taste is sweet Pilsner malt, vanilla and pastry shell. Not super pumpkin but nice enough. I am glad to see them trying. 2023 Well this year Kizakura’a pumpkin beer seems to be barely available and has gone from cans back to bottles… I was going to start off by saying this is a pretty solid pumpkin beer but this year’s batch has gone downhill. The aroma is still really good with loads of rich roasted pumpkin. However, the body is watery and the pumpkin flavor minimal while the carbonation is too aggressive/gassy. I am pretty let down. 3.3—>3 or less

Bottle from Yamaya. Ricey nose, grains, bread. Light lemon, a bit of sake-like spiciness. hazy gold with low lace. Sweet and creamy flavor, rice, biscuit. A bit boring, nose is better.

5% made with Yamada-Nishiki sake rice, served in a tumbler it’s a slightly cloudy gold with a foamy white head that left on a flash. It has a floral & fruity (stone fruit) aroma. Med-light bodied with a dry peppery noble hop finish. This is a subtle beer that won’t wow but didn’t disappoint. Tasty refreshing stuff.

Sample at Kyoto in SLC

Cloudy white. Aroma is fruity and rice. Creamy mouthfeel, fruit and pear

Nice, smooth

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a huge white head. Aroma is grassy, toasted malty. Smooth fruity, citrusy and bitter. Toasted malty. Bitter and slight fruity finish.