Sapporo Premium Draft

Brewed by Sapporo Breweries
Style: Pale Lager
Tokyo, Japan

Straw colored lager pours from bottle with thick but receding foamy white head. Aroma is sweet grass and faint hoppy bitterness. Respect to the brewers for bottling this one brown to avoid skunky phenols. Flavor is very light sweet malt, grain and a crisp metallic finish. Almost no hops in flavor. Mouthfeel is crisp and refreshing when cold. Better than half of its competition in a weak category.

(bottle). Pours a clear yellow color. Medium white head. Light grain/malt aroma. Light grain, malt and alcohol flavors. Avg duration. Sligthly astringent. Thin texture. Moderate carbonation. Spare lacing. Not great by any means, but I would rather have this than a Bud Light, Coors Light, etc.

Bottle. Pours golden body with a white head. Grain, rice, light paper notes and some light earth y tones. Not so good.

Hey! This crap is brewed "under the strict supervision of Sleemans".....The can also says "Japan’s oldest brand" - can you say misrepresentation? What a load of crap. Too bad the beer is palatable. Solid gold in colour and pours out a pretty big white bubbly head that soon goes to a skiff. The smallest dots of lacing. 97% clear. Smell is non-offending, but too light with the only noticable odor consisting of weak grainy malts, faint hops and something else. Not skunky. Taste is on the weak side: sweet, dry and not much else aside from the obvious metallic overtones, but this does not make it undrinkable. Mouthfeel borders around it being light bodied with some weak syrupy quality. Fairly smooth, nice tasty and appealing bitter finish with an unknown flavour that fades. Totally drinkable, in vast quantities and a definete candidate for the march for membership into the Century Club. Also totally forgettable. Just had a flashback of getting a body stone at an old girlfriends house after consuming way way way too much Southern Comfort with her and her dad - worth noting for sure!

Appearance: Clear golden. Good amount of white head. Aroma: Fruit, some malt. Earthy. Taste: Malt and some hops. Little aftertaste. Standard. Info: 330ml bottle, 7/6-2009

Corn yellow with a frothy white head. Not much aroma, flavor is weak standard lager but not too offensive.

Clear yellow with a thick frothy head with good retention. Aroma is very faint bready malt. Flavor is water with some grains. Boring.

On tap at a resturant. Aroma is very sweet almost of corn and of pale malts. Taste is too sweet for a lager, makes it hard to want to drink more than one. Mouthfeel is bubbly, heavily carbonated with overall sweetness lingering as an aftertaste. Moderately sufficient but wouldn’t seek this one out ever.