 DarkElf (2627), La Jolla, California, USA
Aug 12, 2008 19-Mar-08 (334-ml bottle: Purchased 17-Mar-07 for $2.99 at Holiday Wine Cellar in Escondido, CA) Pale golden in color with gorgeous clarity and a fluffy, semi-rocky, white head that builds to almost half an inch before settling to a thin layer. Aromas are very grainy, sweet, somewhat corny and very lightly hoppy. For an all-malt beer, this is smelling perilously close to a macro. On the palate, this light-bodied beer doesn’t really distinguish itself much from macros either. Mildly sweet, grainy malts lack the character of better pilsener-style lagers, and at best, hops add a touch of flavor and bitterness. Carbonation is medium to high, the bubbles are large and rough on the palate, and the combination leads to a rather bloating feeling in the stomach. If the label didn’t say this is an all-malt beer, I’d tend to think it was a slightly better version of an adjuncty pale lager.
Snojerk321 (943), San Diego, California, USA
Aug 8, 2008 12oz bottle from BevMo Mission Valley. Not worth the $4 price tag. Tasted like a beefed up Sapporo, nothing special.
BMan1113VR (762), Los Angeles (and Dallas, TX), California, USA
Aug 4, 2008 Pours a golden yellow with a rocky white head that goes in about a minute. Decent lacing left. Aroma of malt and some cinnamon. Taste is malty and metallicy. Fizzy.
Bragesnak (1134), Aarhus, Denmark
Jul 17, 2008 From Sushi+, Aarhus, DK.
Bottled, 170708.
Yellow with small head. Aroma is weak of malt. Flavor is slightly sweet with some malt.
gkao007 (26), Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Jul 17, 2008 Considered Sapporo’s flagship, this showed more German heritage than the plain Sapporo, but still didn’t do it for me.
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