House IPA
Tamamura-Honten (Shiga Kogen Beer) in Shimotakai, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.33
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
330 ml bottle poured into a hotel glass. Hazy golden brown with off-white head. Aromas of grapefruit citrus, floral, tropical fruit. Tastes of grapefruit citrus, floral, light pine and caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2014
at 07:03
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Aroma fruity, hoppy, orange, citrus, lychee. Clear orange colour. Fruity hoppy flavour, same as above, fresh crisp. High bitterness, but also decent balancing sweetness. Long fruity hoppy finish. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2014
at 09:35
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap at Keg, Nagoya (as "Shiga Kogen Beer House IPA"). Amber color, small white head. Very piney, fresh hoppy aroma. Light-bodied to medium-bodied. Piney, resiny bitterness. Hops are overpowering weakish maltyness. Ok.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jul 2014
at 03:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home in London. Thanks to Tim for this one. Pours hazy, rich orange-gold, fairly effervescent with a large, frothy white head. Lovely aroma, lots of ripening citrus fruits, grapefruit, mandarin orange, touches of doughy pale malts. Medium sweet flavor with further rich citrus, some juicy melon, cantaloupe, grapefruit, mango and papaya, some bitter pine, plastic grass. Medium to full bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Moderately resinous to finish, some faintly pithy citrus, more grapefruit, mango, peach. Very tasty. Good balance for the strength.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2013
at 08:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at Bungalow’s 1st Anniversary Shiga Kogen Tap Takeover event. 8% a nice clear gold color with a foamy white head. A really nice floral/herbal aroma, tasty! Smooth, lightly carbonated body, citrus, sweet sugary light caramel, white grape & a herbal hop finish. Nice easy drinking stuff at 8%. A pleasant surprise. ---update Jan 2013--- On tap at Arcadian, 650 yen for 200ml. Great orange gold color, 1 cm of off-whit filmy head. Aroma of citrus, pine & resin - classic west coast hops. The body is medium-full, smooth & slightly slick. The taste puckers your mouth with bitter grapefruit, pine & resins notes it really lives up to the nose. It has a lingering bitter finish that veers more towards the pine/resin flavors. Really good stuff, an exceptionally solid IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Sep 2013
at 06:45
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle bought on Good Beer.JP and brought back from Tokyo by the wife. Pours a mostly clear copper color with a medium white head. A fruity nose with orange peel and marmalade. A really good flavor of intense citrus, some resin even, bitter enough but not a generally bitter product, biscuit and lingering zest and bitterness on the palate in the finish. Very damn good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2013
at 23:00
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a pale golden color with a white head. Has a fruity hoppy citrus aroma. Fruity malty hoppy bitter citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter citrus finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2012
at 04:15
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, grassy and slight straw. Smooth fruity, grassy and citrusy. Smooth fruity. fruity, lingering hoppy and crisp bitter. Smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2012
at 16:13
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
No head, pale orange-yellow beer. Flowery hops, suggesting serious bitterness, citrussy. Bitter, resiny & piney hops, but not really harsh. Orangepeel finish. Not heavily bodied at all, but sufficient, slick, oily; well-carbonated. More than decent IPA. Again a good example of what is happening in Nippon.
Tried
on 09 May 2012
at 06:19
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