Imperial Red Ale
Ise Kadoya in Ise, Mie, Japan 🇯🇵
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular|
Score
7.08
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at Komachi. Marketed as a new version. Hazy amber-brown. Nose is tropical fruits, citrus, caramel, molasses. Rich and smooth with big fruity hops. Tasty. Sweeter, fruitier, not as bitter and aggressive as before, I think.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Oct 2021
at 02:02
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Beer Rize in Okinawa. Pours cloudy dark amber with a small beige head, good lacing. Citrus, caramel, nutty and pine. Good
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2019
at 10:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Beer Republic. Dark amber colour with golden creamy head. Aroma is hoppy and spicy malt. Nice and spiky. Taste is good spicy, nice citrus hops, smooth malty sweetness. Pretty nice in a red ipa way.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:53
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours unclear amber. Aroma is piney hops, grass, low citric fruit, some dust. Body is medium, strongly bitter with a low sweetness. Low carbonation, lots of malt character. Pine again, some toasted malts. Quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2018
at 18:57
8/10
Bitter monster. Me like.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2017
at 21:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330 ml bottle. Pours dark amber, somewhat reddish as suggested by the name. Some nice foam, actually stays a bit, then comes down leaving a nice lacing on the glass. Aroma is a bit skunky - in a sense that you can feel the hops but there seems to be not much to balance them out. Bit of fruitiness, bit of caramel, toffee. Taste reveals somewhat rough and edgy but nevertheless enjoyable hoppy beer. It is unpolished but I guess that’s part of the allure. Not bad and for 6% has enough to be pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2015
at 06:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Popeye in Tokyo. Served in a shaker half pint glass. Beautiful eye of Jupiter red color with a minimal head. Floral hops on the nose along with some malt sweetness present. Initial taste is strongly malt and grain. Malt flavor does overpower the floral hops at the start, but the bitterness from the hops stands out on the finish. Caramel sweetness and creaminess also present on the palate. --- Beer merged from original tick of Imperial Red Ale on 13 Jul 2015 at 21:02 - Score: 7
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Feb 2015
at 07:46
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Small glass on draft at Tadg’s. Clear amber with off-white head. Aromas of floral, citrus, light toasty notes. Tastes of citrus, malt, toasty and floral notes. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Dec 2014
at 20:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at the GJBF Osaka, 6%. Kind of an amber reddish pour, the flavor is a spicy malt, full bodied rich and more on the bitter side. A really solid red ale though the color is a bit light but flavor wise they nailed it. Subsequently many times in bottles and it’s a lovely hoppy red ale.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jul 2013
at 06:44
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Deep reddish amber color. Aroma of pine, grass, light spice. Taste is spiced caramel and nuts.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Apr 2013
at 17:38