{"id":4244,"date":"2010-11-24T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2010-11-24T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:09:11","slug":"beer-is-good-yebisu-premium-the-black-dark-lager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/24\/beer-is-good-yebisu-premium-the-black-dark-lager\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer is Good – Yebisu Premium “The Black” Dark Lager"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yebisu_black_color\"<\/a>\"Yebisu_black_front\"<\/a>This Yebisu<\/a> varietal is available year round, unlike the Kohaku<\/em> and Silk<\/em> seasonals, along with the standard Yebisu Premium lager\u00c2\u00a0and “The Hop” Pilsener.\u00c2\u00a0 A dark lager, The Black pours slightly thicker than standard Yebisu or the Kohaku amber.\u00c2\u00a0 The decoction seems to be slightly heavier, and as a result, the attenuation is lower which\u00c2\u00a0lends a slight sweetness – not quite a molasses sweetness as found in some darks, but more of a hint of kuromitsu<\/em> or brown sugar.\u00c2\u00a0 The color is very dark, even darker than coffee.\u00c2\u00a0 The initial flavor is dominated by the\u00c2\u00a0smoky overtones of the dark roasted malt and the bitter of the hops, but the malt flavor comes forth in the middle followed by an even finish.\u00c2\u00a0There is no significant sweetness or floweryness from the hopping.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0The head comes on strong at the outset, but disappears quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 The carbonation didn’t seem particularly strong.\u00c2\u00a0 Although I wouldn’t say this is my “go to beer” in the Yebisu lineup (that honor would go th the Kohaku and Silk in that order), it makes for a good change from the norm.\u00c2\u00a0 Give one a try if you encounter the choice.<\/p>\n

Recommended<\/p>\n

5% ABV<\/p>\n

210-yen for the 350 ml can<\/p>\n

Available in the JDM and certain areas of the USDM<\/p>\n

Three out of four drunken monkeys<\/p>\n

\"Yebisu_black_info\"<\/a>\"Yebisu_black_upc\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Yebisu varietal is available year round, unlike the Kohaku and Silk seasonals, along with the standard Yebisu Premium lager\u00c2\u00a0and “The Hop” Pilsener.\u00c2\u00a0 A dark lager, The Black pours slightly thicker than standard Yebisu or the Kohaku amber.\u00c2\u00a0 The decoction seems to be slightly heavier, and as a result, the attenuation is lower which\u00c2\u00a0lends a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-16s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}