Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can from Chitose Airport. Pours a deep brown with a modest beige head. Some dark fruit on the nose with some roasted malt and smoked prosciutto. There is a hint of smoke on the nose. Fairly dry with a little fruity sourness that comes out on the palate as well. Body is quite thin. Tastes like schwartzbier in 2015. Fairly run of the mill, except for the unexpected smoked character. --- Beer merged from original tick of Yubari Coal Mine Dark Lager on 06 Aug 2015 at 19:20 - Score: 5
willisread (9761) reviewed Pilsner from Susukino Ji-Beer 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at Tsuki to Taiyo Brewing. Clear straw-gold with a nice big pillowy white head. Nose has some grass, wet grain, cheese and butter notes. Taste is grainy with some hop flavor coming out but as it warms it becomes like buttermilk. Diacetyl bomb. --- Beer merged from original tick of Susukino Pilsener on 17 Jul 2015 at 18:46 - Score: 4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
35 cl can, souvenir from trip to Japan. Black color. Light brown head, not too long retention. Aroma’s: roasted malts/ground coffee, drop/licorice. Flavor is light sweet, roasted. Thin mouthfeel. Finishes with roast, slightly dry and light bitterness. Nice enough.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
350 ml can from The Garden, Jiyugaoka. Pours pitch black - of coal black. Has a nice beige head at first but it reduces soon. What remains is creamy and fluid, leaving nice lacings on the glass. Aroma has some roast with dark fruits, maybe dried plums. Taste is also nicely creamy, some roast malts, brewed nicely into a dry beer - that has a lot of flavour for the meagre 5% abv it packs. Bitter and charred aftertaste, remains for some minutes. Quite enjoyable, actually much better than I expected.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Can from Kita Recipe in Umeda. From Susukino Beer in Hokkaido comes this black pour with a beige head with rusty accents and ok lacing. Served in a snifter it gives off an aroma of soft chocolate. Medium-light bodied with an energetic carbonation giving it a spritzy mouthfeel. The taste is roasty, bitter dark chocolate & cacao beans. The finish is somewhat ascerbic giving a kind of mild puckering palate cleansing effect. A decent enough schwarzbier and much better than their pilsner.
KansaiBeerLovers (8927) reviewed Pilsner from Susukino Ji-Beer 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
This brewery is not closed, they shut-down their restaurant and stopped making anything but a standard lager which is sold in cans around Sapporo. It is aimed at tourists I guess with the can covered in photos of Sapporo. It poured a clear straw color with minimal head. I’d heard it sucked but it was quite drinkable. Sweet & easy to drink when straight from the fridge but it didn’t have a whole lot of flavor. When it warmed up some grassy notes came through. It’s an ok lager which is not what I want from a craft beer.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Pilsner from Susukino Ji-Beer 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Hazy straw, malt-accented aroma with paint or glue phenols. Bland, although is does have some fresh grains. Fairly soft body, but this boring stuff isn’t my can of beer.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Pilsner from Susukino Ji-Beer 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at the brewery, 2007. Decent malt and hop aromas, nice rounded, slightly buttery flavor in the Czech mold. Decent hopping and good flavor generally, a bit fruity. Nice beer, well balanced, though I was not as impressed this time as the first time I had it in the bottle! Can, 2012. Very sweet malts, too much diactyl, much less hop aroma and bitterness. Going downhill, it would seem, unless I just got a bad one... 6/3/6/3/13= 3.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at the brewpub. They call it a stout. I was not sure whether it was a stout or a schwarz. Tastes more like a dry stout. Dark black with a nice tan head. Burnt malt aroma with coffee. Very creamy flavor, strong roasting and coffee. Sweetish, light but with full flavor, good malt. Clean and flavorful.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Märzen from Susukino Ji-Beer 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught at the brewery. Light amber/orange color. Malty aroma, sweet and not complex. Sweet, malty taste, though without much distinction in the malt character and not enough hops. Decent enough but too sweet and rather uninteresting.