Nikko Brewing (The Nikko Monkeys)

Microbrewery in Nikko, Tochigi, Japan 🇯🇵

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木和田島1564-4, Nikko, Japan

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6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle shared, golden orange beer, medium head. Aroma is yeast, peppery, citrus. Taste is the same, yeast, fruit, peppery, bitter, dry, not bad
Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2026 at 14:51

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Better, creamy, light spice. Light interest.
Tried on 22 Oct 2019 at 10:11

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Bit boring. Bit macro
Tried on 22 Oct 2019 at 10:11

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Malty caramel, bit of sweetness alright.
Tried on 22 Oct 2019 at 10:10

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Coconut, fruity, not sure but fun.
Tried on 12 Oct 2019 at 11:57

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Tap at BeerFes Osaka 2019. Grainy nose like granola or muesli. Popcorn. Clear gold with a high head. Buttery, grainy popcorn flavor. You all know what I mean. Yuck.
Tried from Draft on 17 Jul 2019 at 06:55

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330ml bottle from Family Mart in Nikko. Pours dirty orange, bit cloudy and honestly not that good-looking. Nose however strikes fruits lots of fresh fruitiness, sticky tropical overripe fruits. Taste has more of that fruity character, hoppy with medium and sharp bitterness. Floral. Quite good dry-hopping, decent brew, just looking a bit off.
Tried from Bottle on 07 May 2019 at 18:36

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Can from Family Mart in Nikko. Pours nice golden, clear and some white foam on top. Looking decent. Malty biscuit nose, bit sourish but overall relatively crisp. Taste is crisp and malty, full bodied for a lager, not bad. A bit of sweetness there. Light to medium bitterness leads to a malty-bitter light herbal linger in the finish. Not bad.
Tried from Can on 07 May 2019 at 18:16

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Tap at CBM Lucua. Cloudy golden. They all pretty much look the same. Estery nose, citrus, tart. A bit bland flavor, citrus, not much wheat or esters or clove coming through. A bit watery and sour. Decent, but clearly the most amateurish of the three we tried.
Tried from Draft on 24 Jul 2018 at 03:41

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Medium light amber color. Beautiful (dry hopped?!) nose of apricot, apples and pears. However beautiful the nose is the mouth didn’t deliver. Low bitterness, marmalade, over ripe peaches. The beer was a bit all over the place. It could be I didn’t groove on the hops. Very light and easy to drink though. Over ripe apricots linger in the finish
Tried on 30 May 2018 at 12:10