4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Medium coarse offwhite head shrinks quickly. Yellow body with carbonation. Unbalanced alcohol and corn aroma with chemical notes. Dry lightly chalky apple taste with chemical aftertaste. Nice grassy hop background. Not bad for a happoshu. (0.35l can.)
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2007
at 05:27
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Medium coarse gray head quickly shrinks. Yellow body. Very light corn aroma. Taste is bitter corny chalk. Dry empty aftertaste. Pointless. (0.35l can.)
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2007
at 05:25
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Biggish white shiny head. Pale yellow body with carbonation. Light softly hoppy aroma. Dry grassy hop taste with malt and chalk notes. Aftertaste is dry straw and grass. It’s decent, but aftertaste could be improved. (0.35l can.)
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2007
at 01:43
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Medium shiny white head shrinks quickly. Yellow body with carbonation. Light clean malty aroma. Taste is light malts with grassy hop notes. Dry all the way through. A decent pale lager. (0.3l can.)
Tried
from Can
on 05 Apr 2007
at 21:08
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Biggish creamy white head. Pale yellow body. Light malt and hop aroma, very clean. Clean light hop and malts taste with faint floral hop notes. Light, grainy aftertaste. Very clean, but little taste. What little there is is mostly hops. (0.3l on tap at Suntory brewery.)
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Apr 2007
at 20:53
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Label for 2007 is a bit different and is called Malt Selection, but idea is essentially the same and given the exact same alcohol it is likely same beer. Deep golden color, frothy white head. Very sweet perfumy malty nose. Adjuncts were mentioned in other ratings, but none are in the ingredients. Sweet malty mouth with cheap six-row grains. Blah, I hate the use of six-row grain in Canadian beer so they put it in this blah blah and blah. Sweet malty finish. This beer defines Japanese taste in beer, sweet and malty.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Feb 2007
at 08:09
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Slightly hazy straw colour. Big, almost sugary malt aroma. Clean, fresh malt taste. A little grainy in the finish, but pretty good macrobrew.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2006
at 17:02
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Biggish white head over pale yellow body with carbonation. Clean fruity malt aroma with grassy hop notes. Taste is clean grassy metallic hops with fruitym malt background. Relatively bitter. Aftertaste is dry grassy hops. One of the better pale lagers I’ve had. (0.35l can, titled Suntory The Premium Malt’s.)
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jun 2006
at 11:58
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
[Canned, as Suntory The Premium Malts] Clear golden, rich head. Very light grassy nose. Firmly malty with dense mouthfeel. Notes of butter before a lightly spicy and bitter finish. A solid, well balanced lager.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jun 2006
at 04:56
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
A bold golden color with a mild hint of PNW hops in the nose. the mouth is quiet hoppy, very fragerant with colombia and cascade hoppiness that is supposed with a solid does of malts. The finish is moderately bitter and comes together like an excellent hoppy pilsner should!
Tried
on 16 Apr 2005
at 09:02