Brewery: Suntory Country: Japan ABV: 5% Style: Czech Pilsner
Brewer Description: (from bottle) The Master Brewer’s dream brought to life. An unprecedented harmony of heritage and innovation in Beer.
My rating: 3 My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.1 My ratebeer.com rating: 3.1
Intro: A 305ml pull cap bottle with a best before date of April 2017, poured into a Moonzen teku glass. Appearance: It poured a wonderful clear golden orange colour with a slightly less than two finger white head that dissipated quickly and left some sparse lacing. Aroma: On the light side, but there’s sweet malt, biscuit, grass, caramel and a touch of lemon. Taste: Sweet malt, grain, grass, floral notes, lemon, apple and honey. Mouthfeel: Medium to light bodied with moderate carbonation. Overall: If only Suntory made their beers as good as their whiskies… Master’s Dream was easy to drink and was not bad, but at the same time nothing special either.
Brewery: Asahi Breweries Ltd. Country: Japan ABV: 5.5% Style: English Pale Ale
Brewer Description: Unfortunately words on the can was in Japanese and I can’t read Japanese!
My rating: 2 My beeradvocate.com rating: 2.61 My ratebeer.com rating: 2.5
Intro: A 500ml can with a canned date of March 2015 and poured into a pint glass. Appearance: The beer poured a clear copper amber colour with a one finger white head that dissipates quickly. Leaves only some light lacing. Aroma: Starts mainly with sweet and bready malts, some caramel and apple juice with hints of plum, lemon and floral hop. Taste: Sweet biscuit malt and caramel, bland apple juice, light bitter grassy hops with a hint of lemon. Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Overall: This was ok, its not terrible or anything, but I’m not sure I’d spend money to buy this again.
Brewery: Abashiri Beer Country: Japan ABV: 5% Style: Fruit Beer Other Notes: Happoshu based. Brewed in Hokkaido.
Brewer Description: Its in Japanese, which I unfortunately cannot read…
My rating: 1 My beeradvocate.com rating: 2.19 My ratebeer.com rating: 1.9
Intro: A 330ml bottle dated best before 28th October 2015 and poured into a pint glass. Appearance: The beer poured a slightly hazy dull pinkish red colour with a half finger head that disappeared almost immediately. Aroma: Strong aromas of candied cherry, some bubblegum, cherry syrup. Taste: Immediate taste of candied cherry (like cherry soda) but then all of a sudden less than 2 seconds later, it all disappears. You’re expecting some sweetness or something, but its not there at all. It pretty much becomes like extremely watered down cherry water. Mouthfeel: Light bodied with light carbonation. Overall: I saw cherry, and I didn’t need any more persuasion to buy this beer. This beer was happoshu based and there’s nothing wrong with that. I also enjoy cough medicinal flavours, and this kind of had this at first, but then it disappeared even quicker. Watered down cherry water, that’s what I got… it started off fine and then just fell off. I don’t know how I finished the whole thing… It was also damn expensive at around USD4 a bottle. Not worth it at all, save your money!
words of another dreamy traveller 