Niigata Japanesque Barrel-Aged
Hyouko Yashiki No Mori Brewery (Swan Lake) in Agano, Niigata, Japan 🇯🇵
Belgian Style - Dubbel Regular|
Score
7.47
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Loads of barrel. Bourbon sweetness, vanilla. Rich, lightly boozy. Dubbel fruitiness too, bit nutty. Good stuff.
Tried
on 02 Oct 2019
at 07:42
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Maruho Namba. What a surprise! Cloudy, almost muddy brown with lace. Nose is bourbon, vanilla, raisins, chocolate, treacle, ume plums. Complex, woody. Sweet flavor of raisins and plum, vanilla and whiskey, and some cola. Smooth, silky, soft and sweet. Light booziness. Quite lovely.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 May 2019
at 03:50
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft at Swan Lake Pub Edo in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Dark brown. smell-whiskey, dark fruit, caramel. taste-caramel, dark fruit, sweet whiskey, raisin. full body. This rating not sponsored by ZX Ventures or AB Inbev.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Feb 2019
at 02:39
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dirty medium amber color. malty creamy oak vanilla, apricot and pears, very smooth. Excellent
Tried
on 22 Sep 2018
at 10:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Light brown pour, not that much carbonation there. Nose is quite boozy, lots of vanilla and some lightly sweet dried yellow stone fruits. Toffe and caramel candy diluted in some clean vodka with raisins. Tastes sweet, dried apricot and raisins, boozy kick and light booze bitterness coming up in the finish. Vanilla and these dried fruits give some dessert characteristics, would probably work nicely with a vanilla icecream float. As it is now, quite nice but lacks in complexity, also relatively light bodied (which is still pretty amazing for 11%).
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2017
at 20:18