Rio Brewing Japan
Microbrewery
in Kashiwa,
Chiba,
Japan 🇯🇵
Owned by
Rio Brewing and Co.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Tap at 2025 Beer Expo. Muddy medium to dark brown. Nose is grape juice, caramel, chocolate, buttered popcorn. Also seems to have popcorn added. Flavor is like a brown porter with grape juice, diacetyl, and DMS. It's the popcorn, but that comes across as my two least favorite off-flavors. Not poorly made, just a terrible idea to put popcorn in here.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Social Gravity from Rio Brewing Japan 2 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
On tap at WIZ Craft Beer & Food, pours a cloudy yellowish blonde with a small white head. Aroma and flavour is pure chalk, with tons of hopburn and the usual undrinkable hazy garbage. Egregiously chalky mouthfeel. Very bad.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Afterglow from Rio Brewing Japan 2 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
On tap at Wiz Craft Beer & Food, pours a cloudy golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma is pure diacetyl - nasty butter. Flavour is pure butter… get fucked. Fuck off. Undrinkable.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Moment from Rio Brewing Japan 2 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
On tap at WIZ Craft Beer & Food, pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma is way overmalted, with caramel malt, butterscotch and subdued resinous hops. Flavour is extremely overmalted, with sweet caramel malt, subdued resinous hops, and diacetyl. Oh god — this isn't drinkable at all. Terrible stuff.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Rison from Rio Brewing Japan 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at WIZ Craft Beer & Food, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out gentle esters and some rustic saison yeast in good balance. Flavour is spicy and estery, with lots of carbonation, spicy fruity esters, and a bit of white pepper. Decently constructed though maybe not exactly on point. Pleasant.
tokyobeerdrinker (9001) ticked Rison from Rio Brewing Japan 4 years ago
Quite sweet but it’s nice enough. Soapy with a bit of fruitiness.