Tasting Notes: Sapporo: Yebisu – Black

Sapporo: Yebisu – Black (Japan: Schwarzbier: 5% abv)

Visual: Bubbling black with a decent toffee brown head.

Nose: Lots of roasted nuts, cherries and malt. Orange and coffee.

Body: Roasted malt, nuts (peanuts?). Smooth and quite sweet. Coffee whitener. Toffee.

Finish: Creamy, treacle. Charred elements.

Conclusion: Smooth, kind of satisfying, but pretty much middle of the road. Apparently the old Sapporo black was something quite special, but this, the inheritor of its legacy, does not hold such charm.

It’s forgettable, but not unpleasant.