the beers of Futenma: Sapporo White Belg

I picked this beer up at the Aeon grocery store, as well as a number of other beers that I will be reviewing. It is a Belgian White beer, as the name implies. According to the can "Inspired by Belgian White beers, this tasty brew is created using coriander seeds, orange peel and fine Belgian malt." ALC.5%. Coriander is cilantro, for those of you who have never heard it called that before, I've lived in the USA my entire life and I have never heard it called that until I came out here. I've already talked about the Sapporo brewery in a previous post, so lets skip to seeing that head.

Nose from the can in malty, with an orange scent. It is a remarkably clear orange tinted gold color, there is hardly any life inside the mug. Due to this, the head only exists immediately after pouring but quickly dissipates. No matter, I don't really care about head, I think it just gets in the way. From the mug, It's nose is heavy with orange, but the cilantro makes a stated appearance. The taste is the precise opposite, which is to say it is heavy with cilantro and orange makes an appearance after the fact. Mouthfeel is rather light/medium bodied and mildly acidic. This beer tastes like it uses artificial flavors after it is brewed, I'm not saying that's what happened, but that's what it tastes like. Not much of an alcohol taste, it's defiantly covered up with the flavoring.

So I watch this channel on YouTube called Forgotten Weapons. I watch it obsessively, every time a new video comes out, I watch it. It has eaten so much of my time but I can't stop, It's just too interesting. Maybe it's just because I'm a gun nut. It's put out by a guy named Ian, who is an expert in historical firearms, and he gets to go behind the scenes at auction houses, museums, and private collections to look at and take apart all kinds of old guns and makes videos. He gives you the history behind the gun, how it functions,  and really any interesting information about it. If you like guns or just mechanical doodads, I highly suggest checking that out.

To finish this review out, this beer was disappointing.  If you want a good mass produced Belgian white, grab a shock-top. This beer could have used much better execution, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either.