House IPA
Tamamura-Honten (Shiga Kogen Beer) in Shimotakai, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.33
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, at Patricks. it pours a minimal sized off-white head over a hazy dark golden body. The aroma is on the hoppy side with pale malts in the back. Pine cones, citrus peel and a faint touch of vegetables. The flavor goes down the same road, piney and resiny flavors dominates with it’s bitterness, leaving the pale malts to a place in the back seat, where they do just what they are supposed to. It’s full bodied and deliciously dry, finishing bitter. I don’t like the little vegetal touch, but fortunately that’s only in the aroma. Else it’s a fine one, tasteful and quenching and it goes down almost too easily. 100213
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2010
at 12:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
330ml bottle, 8% ABV, served at Håndverkstuene and shared with KuntAlbert. Unclear, dark amber body. White layer. Dried fruity aroma with an underflow of apricot. Sweet sappy oranges in flavour coupled with dried fruits and spices. Bitterness of mellow fruits towards the finish. Dry in the mouth. Well bodied. Good drinking in friendly company (Oslo, 19.03.2010).
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2010
at 06:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330 ml bottle. Hazy orange body with a big, creamy off-white head. Aroma is caramel with a complex mix of fruity American hops. Flavor is sweet caramel malt with a more moderate bitterness than expected from the aroma, still bitter, but in a more balanced way with a fine maltbase. A nice experience and very easy drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2010
at 06:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle, as Tamamura Honten House IPA, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 8.0%. Deep golden to brownish orange colour, moderate white head. Aroma of earth, wood and slightly stale orange marmalade, fruity and resinous hops. The flavour has first a rich malty and fruity sweetness, then powerful American(?) hops take over with loads of resinous and grapefruity bitterness. Enough sweetness remains to balance some of the bitterness. Clearly a real treat for the hopheads.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2010
at 13:15
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 10
2010 Version, absolutely fresh, Draught at Tadgs. Wonderful. Huge hop aroma, with grapefruit, mango,, passionfruits, pineapple, honey, and lean golden malts. Deep gold color. No caramel flavors at all. Clean, crisp honey malts and big citrus and tropical hops. Perfect bitterness at the finish, bitter but not mouth warping. This has triumphed head to head over draught Sculpin, West Coast, Ruination, Islander. One of the best in the world. Amazing. 2008 version, on draught at Wachi. 8/4/8/4/17 Glowing golden / orange color with a thin head. Big citrus hop nose with caramel and warm light malts. Huge hops. Flavor of caramel malt and all kinds of fruits. Big, citrusy hops with come alcohol burn. Good, bitter, hoppy finish. Very good, very big. The best IPA in Japan for sure.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2008
at 00:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. Pale amber, small head. Aroma of grapefruit and caramel. Sweet and very malty with medium-full body and rounded mouthfeel. Perfumy and very hoppy with long grapefruity bitterness. This is not American?
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2008
at 03:56
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
12 oz bottle courtesy of hogfodder, who brought this back from Japan and shared it with after4ever and I on 3/20/08. Pour is orange golden, clear with little or no head. Aroma is very soft floral hops, rose hips and some rounded caramel maltiness. Taste is a nice balance, of the malt and hop with some nice resin - graininess through the finish. Aroma the highlight of this one. Thanks for sharing Rick!
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2008
at 14:05
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at home with Tom and Royce... Thanks to TIME for this ... dark amber ... nice wonderfullly interesting nose mellon and hops slightly sweet fruity caramel hop toffee malts again some mellon ...a really goood iipa. lots of character and depth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2008
at 13:45
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy orange with an off-white head. Citrus and earthy hops are subtle but noticeable. Caramel, malt and some floral notes as well. Nice body for an IIPA. Citric hops, some floral, caramel, and bready malts in the flavor. Finish has a nice lingering bitterness. Not a huge IIPA, but a pretty decent beer.
Tried
on 16 Dec 2007
at 07:28