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Asahi Black (Kuronama)

Percentile
46
overall
Brewed by Asahi Breweries
Style: Schwarzbier

Tokyo, Japan

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
1843.01/5.03/5.05%42.5Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein
Commercial Description:
Bottle & can: Pasteurised.
Ingredients: Dark roasted malt; hops; rice; maize; Asahi’s pure cultured yeast.
Japan’s favourite dark beer. Brewed in Osaka, Asahi Black is made from three different roasted malts. This gives it a rich, nutty flavour and makes it incredibly smooth-drinking. Unlike other, more bitter dark beers and stouts, it’s brewed in a process called bottom fermentation, which gives it a subtle, sweet edge and smooth 5% abv.
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 peter (385), Dallas, Texas, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/517/20
Jan 6, 2006  
Draft. Pours a red darker than a black steer’s touckus on a moonless night. Aroma is heavy of malt and notes of spice. Extremely smooth palate washes the tounge with a complex variety of flavours. Roasted barely, butterscotch, pepper, and a fast disolving bitter finish. True to japanese style of finishing quickly with little or no aftertaste.


ervan (37), Redwood City, California, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/104/511/20
Jan 2, 2006  
Bottle. Dark, somewhat maltey and failry good palate, but lacking in any real flavor.


 Ungstrup (15111), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/56/102/514/20
Oct 13, 2005  
[At Stockholm Beer Festival 2005] A red-brown beer with a huge brown head. The aroma is sweet with light notes of roasted malt. The flavor is sweet malty with light roasted notes and a dry slightly bitter end, but the body is thin. A nice Schwarzbier.


 maeib (4711), Wootton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/56/102/512/20
Aug 10, 2005  
Bottle. Almost black beer with nice off white head. This soon disappears however. The aroma has some roasty notes but also a bit of metal. The taste is also a bit roasty, some caramel but it’s all a bit thin and metallic.


 Norton (294), The Fan, Richmond, Virginia, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/104/513/20
Aug 9, 2005  
Bottle. Miniscule tan head vanished kind of quickly. Deep brown almost black color, vague light penetration. A bit of roast aroma. Smooth drinker, goes down easily. Sweet bitter chocolatey toasted flavor does not overwhelm. Carbonation just right. I’d drink it again.


 duff (5475), Surrey, Greater London, England
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/511/20
Jul 18, 2005  
Bottle. Pretty much sweet brown sugary sort of stuff. There is some light toastyness and roasted malt. Pretty smooth and all the rest of it (drinkable etc) but its just a little too thin and sweet or something. An average schwarz.


 Dredd (491), Ormond, Australia
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/56/103/514/20
Jun 25, 2005  
Burnt toffee nose, caramel flavour. Very clean and drinkable. It is also very well balanced, however, the head is a bit dissapointing.


kibbs (10), Ontario, Canada
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/104/57/103/514/20
May 14, 2005  
Aroma is very light, the taste is roated malt, color is very nice and over all a pleasant beer



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