Mugi To Hoppu Kuro
Sapporo Breweries Ltd.
- From:
- Sapporo Breweries Ltd.
- Japan
- Style:
- European Dark Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.38 | pDev: 6.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 13, 2019
- Added:
- Nov 04, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by shigg85 from Japan
3.53/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Like a pretty decent schwarzbier -- try it and you'll enjoy!
May 24, 2015
Reviewed by pettis from Virginia
3.47/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.47/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Kuro ("black") version of Sapporo's Mugi to Hoppu ("Barley and Hops") happoshu.
Pours a dark brown, almost black, with a fizzy head that disappears far too quickly into nothing—no lacing or anything. Looks like flat cola sitting in a glass. Only the faintest of roasted malt in the nose. So far, not looking good.
The taste, however, is surprisingly pleasant for a happoshu. Despite having such a low malt content, the fact that what malt is used has been roasted goes a long way in providing a (relative) richness of flavor that most happoshu necessarily lack. (The high overall rating is thus only in comparison with other happoshu.)
[Note: Technically, according to Japanese tax code product classifications, this is a "Liqueur (Carbonated): 1" since it is a happoshu with barley spirits (barley vodka?) added to bring up the abv at a low cost.]
Nov 04, 2011Pours a dark brown, almost black, with a fizzy head that disappears far too quickly into nothing—no lacing or anything. Looks like flat cola sitting in a glass. Only the faintest of roasted malt in the nose. So far, not looking good.
The taste, however, is surprisingly pleasant for a happoshu. Despite having such a low malt content, the fact that what malt is used has been roasted goes a long way in providing a (relative) richness of flavor that most happoshu necessarily lack. (The high overall rating is thus only in comparison with other happoshu.)
[Note: Technically, according to Japanese tax code product classifications, this is a "Liqueur (Carbonated): 1" since it is a happoshu with barley spirits (barley vodka?) added to bring up the abv at a low cost.]
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