rumore (5447) reviewed Daydream from Spring Valley Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draft in Sapporo, Japan. Pours pale canary gold, with limited white foam. Aroma is lemony and reminding of soda. Body and carbonation are average. Taste is slightly tart. Finish is kind of short.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Sansho Weiss from Spring Valley Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at SBV Kyoto. Pastel yellow, cloudy, low head. Nose is sansho pepper, lemon, banana, clove. Rather light, sweet, simple weizen base with prickly, tingly sansho in the right amount. Not really my thing but done pretty well.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Kyoto Yosano IPA from Spring Valley Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap at SVB Kyoto. Cloudy, somewhat muddy, deep amber to brown with lace. Nice hoppy nose, tropical fruit and grpaefruit, bit of caramel malt. Malty, fruity flavor, nice hops this time, slightly old school malt profile. Tasty and well done.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Hojicha Brown Ale from Spring Valley Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at SBV Kyoto. Medium brown color, clear. Nice chocolate malt nose, caramel, hojicha in the right proportion. Malty though not thick or heavy, somewhat sweet, the tea showing up a bit more than the hops, in a somewhat classic English brown. Decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Spring Valley Brewery Houjicha Brown Ale 4.5% Bottle picked up at SVB KYOTO(450 yen). Orange-brown in color with a light beige head and the aroma is caramel biscuits with chocolatey houjicha. It’s not bad and kind of reminds me of a houjicha latte I had once. As you drink it, it does get a bit too sweet.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5
Tap at SVB Kyoto. Pale clear gold, with a really grainy sweet macro-lager nose, maybe a touch of floral but minute hop premise. The flavor was the same but this is a slick overly sweet macro-lager with no real dryness or crispness or anything notable as being "fresh hopped" it could be that the Ibuki hop is on the weak side but I am guessing they were cheap and barely hopped it. So. Damn. Lame.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Tap at SVB Kyoto. I was walking by on my way to the station and saw that the Kyoto 2017, 4.5%, beer was back on. It was limited to a small size but as that is all I wanted no worries. An opaque hold with a minimal head and rough grainy aroma. Very sharply carbonated, overly so and sweet and grainy. This is like a crappy macro-lager brewed badly on a micro-system. How on earth did this sell out? It has a tart citrus zest edge, a bit eggy, and just plain weird. Way too gassy, some version of a Kirin beer from 1988 called no. 1497 according to the menu though the English menu doesn't mention any connection to Kirin and just says it is made with Kyoto grown Koshi hikari rice. So delving into the menu I see it was made with wheat and koshihikari sake rice making this a golden speciality grain beer, I guess. Meh, way too bloody gassy, nothing is off with this beer but it is pretty frikin' boring.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Kyoto 2017 from Spring Valley Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap at SVB Kyoto. Said to have 20% wheat, 20% rice, plus koji. Grainy, rice nose, porridge, light citrus hops. Pale gold, light haze, with lace. Sweet rice flavor, grains, mild and balanced with not much hop. Plain.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Hop Fest 2017 from Spring Valley Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap at SVB Kyoto. Pale gold with a light haze and lace. Rough vegetal and resin nose, a touch of citrus, malty. Rather harsh and astringent hop flavor, resiny, ok malt. These Ibuki fresh hops are not very convincing. Low carbonation. A taster is enough.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Tap at SVB Kyoto but made at the Shiga Kirin plant. I am guessing it is a schwarzbier. Why can they put the OG and FG, Brewer, ABV but not the style??? Wtf??? The Japanese tasting sheet says it has a latte aroma, I'd say it smells like a sweet stout dosed with chocolate syrup. The taste is rich chocolatey and has dry roasty chocolate notes. Brewed by Munenori Matsumoto I'd say it is the best of the "core"