Rio Brewing Japan

Microbrewery in Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan 🇯🇵
Owned by Rio Brewing and Co.

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正連寺 394-3 中央133街区7の芝生, Kashiwa, Japan
Description
This is the entry for the Rio microbrewery in Chiba. Please see the parent brewery for the three beers made in Belgium (Uijin, Uijin Yuzu, Belgian Chocolate Stout)

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5.4
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.

Tried on 14 Apr 2025 at 00:42


4
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.

Tried from Draft on 27 Jul 2023 at 15:09


2.1
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.

Tried from Draft on 27 Jul 2023 at 15:08


2.9
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.

Tried from Draft on 27 Jul 2023 at 15:08


6.1
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.

Tried from Draft on 27 Jul 2023 at 15:07


7.5

Quite sweet but it’s nice enough. Soapy with a bit of fruitiness.

Tried from Draft at Butcher Republic on 12 Jan 2022 at 12:31