Sapporo Premium Draft

Brewed by Sapporo Breweries
Style: Pale Lager
Tokyo, Japan

Golden yellow with a medium white head. Aroma of light malts, some fruit. Taste is pretty bland and watery. Finish is dry and astringent.

About as pale yellow as pale lagers get. Fizzy 7up like head that dissipates within seconds. Fairly nice nose for a pale lager with notes of wheat, yeast, and grass. Hop and malt apparent in the taste which has a nice little hoppy snap to it. As is usual with pale lagers, there’s no finish.

A decent lager with a bite at the end...not too big. Goes great with sushi and compliments hot sake making the beer taste sweeter and really brings out the hops and malts.

12 oz. bottle: Beery yellow pour with a fizzy head. The nose is really nothing special - some corn syrup, rotted vegetal notes and grassy hops. Thin, watery body offers little in addition to the nose. A smallish honey note rises from the corn and grass, but it is hard to detect. Drinks easy, but that isn’t saying much. Very watery and boring. I wasn’t expecting much, but this even fell short of those expectations. I would choose Singha every day of the week and twice on Sunday over this "beer."

Aroma is ultra corny, sweet, with a low noble hop background. Appearance is clear yellow with a low white head . Flavor is sharp and pils tangy, with earthy bittering. Mouthfeel is light bodied with a medium carb feel. Overall, simple and dry; not too refreshing.

bottle with sushi. I prefer this over the kirin, the other widely avaiable pale lager available at sushi restaurants. More maltiness with slightly bitter finish.

12 ounce bottle. What is the aesthetic import of "ethnic" cuisine upon the enjoyment of a particular beer? Do the background, country of origin, or lineage of the beer affect the food? The excitation of senses—visual, nasal, and palatal—is influenced by the atmosphere and environment of Happy Teriyaki #11, as well as the Japanese associations of the restaurant, whether known or not, conscious or subconscious, wrong or right. What would be mediocre or banal in other circumstances, is here transformed, albeit minimally. The slight spiciness of Sapporo is brought forth by teriyaki and tonkatsu. It is this minor hint of flavor that saves Sapporo, at least in this instance, from being just another run-of-the-mill pale lager. It is not spectacular, by any means, but it will suffice. And, it makes the meal complete.

Not much in the way of the aroma, but there is a nice lightly hoppy nose. Pours a modest, clear golden color with a textbook frothy head. Flavor is malty as it can be without running the show. Great use of the hops as this beer is neither too bitter nor too tame on the palate. Something happens during the finish that leaves me thirsty for more of this brew whether it be on draught, in a can, or in a bottle. One of my favorite "anytime" lagers.