Again a very delayed beer review from an owl-coholic :D
Many a year ago I set off on my journey into the world of alcohol in a small bar in Kyoto. I was offered an umeishu on the rocks. Umeishu is a liqueur made from Japanese plums. It is not just sweetness with a fruity flavour. Its profile is a bit complex it has a nutty tartness to it. After that I slowly began to fall in love with the more mature flavours you can find in beer (but also in gin, whiskey and rum :D ). Anyway, I still like my vitamins. So I was quite intrigued when I saw a Yuzu-beer!
Yuzu are a type of mandarin-oranges which have a lemony-yellow peel. In Japan it is quite common to find Yuzu-drinks as a non-alcoholic beverage from the vending machine. It is then mixed with honey and it leave the machine pre-heated. It is great for when you have a sore throat. Besides Yuzu drinks I absolutely love Yuzu marmelade which is korean thing.
Nikita from Russian Federation, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Anyway, this is an alcoholic post so let's get back to the beer-review!
Taste was a bit disappointing. Looking at the ingredients it seems like it was made using Yuzu juice as opposed to the peel (for example for Limoncello you would use lemon peel because the tasty oils can be extracted using alcohol). This yuzu beer pretty much tastes like yuzu juice, with sweeteners mixed together with beer. I suppose for a summer day wouldn't be that bad. But I suspect that you won't be far off if you put lemon juice, sugar and a light beer together :(
Next week try something new again^^
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