Daisen G Beer is a craft beer brewery located in Tottori prefecture, in the Chugoku region, just north of Okayama. Located at the base of Mt. Daisen, which is more commonly known as Hōkifuji in the area, the brewery opened in 1997 as an off-shoot of the sake producing company Kumezakura Shuzō and San-in Sanso Corporation, a company that deals with high-pressure gas. The local area is famous for its clear spring water, sourced from the snow at the top of the mountain, and its black soil, kuroboku in Japanese, which is said to be some of the most fertile in Japan. This fertile soil has resulted in Daisen G Beer being able to grow its own barley, in the form of Daisen Gold, in the spring; Daisen G Beer’s own hops, called Weihen Hop, which are harvested in the summer, and also Yamadanishiki, a sake yeast that is used in the production of the beers such as Daisen G Yagō.
2014 keg on tap at Kamikaze. Deep orange-golden color with a tall, fine head. Malty nose, lots of melanoidins, biscuits, peach, orange. Rich and malty, bread, biscuit, peppery hop remaining with a nice bitterness. Estery. Nice stuff. Want to try it young as well.
Tap at Kyoto Festa. Bright gold, cloudy. Great fruity nose, citrus, orange, apricot, wheat / rice, spicy yeast. Crisp and clean, bright, light version of Yago. Tropical fruits. Great.
Pours brownish, nice and quite resilient beige head. Aroma has caramel, maybe some sweeter dried fruits, such as fig and black plums. Some washing detergent and prickly fresh cut grass. Taste has some bitterness long and persisting but not fragrant at all, somewhat damp. Reminds me Baird’s Teikoku IPA, which is also logical as both of them should be takes on English IPA. This on feels with more watery body though. Overall, not really bad or anything but nothing here to enjoy either.
cloudy golden color. Very phenolic with some bananas and cloves with some odd sake yeast notes. But doesn’t come together that well. Boozy finish which For 5.5% is surprising.
Daisen g hatahata 24 ale 5.5% A fruity clove and white pepper aroma. The taste is phenolic sweet cloves and yeasty chewy malts. Effervescent like champagne on a light body but kind of boozy for 5.5% Not bad.
Another I had ages ago and part of my lost ratings I guess. Had a sample shared at CBM Mitsukoshimae. A cloudy dark reddish amber. A candy fruity hop aroma. Watery and limp flavor wise with just a bit of bitterness and sweetness. Meh, kind of below what Daisen G can usually do.
RBWG16. Shared by the impeccable KyotoLefty, thanks Mark. The bottle pours with a hazy deep gold body that supports a near white head of foam. The aroma offers up smooth big sweet banana with a bit of spicy cloves around the periphery. The taste is similar as a soft volley of smooth near sweet banana hits first followed by a modest level of softened spicy clove filling in around the edges.