Takata no Yume
Sekinoichi Shuzo / Iwate Kura Beer in Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan 🇯🇵
Wheat Ale Regular|
Score
6.95
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
This poured a milky honey gold but with some floaters which was off-putting. It had an off-white beige head that dissipated fast. Spicy clove and Yuzu aroma. The taste is spice, Koji, rice and Yuzu but dry Soda-bread too. Decent flavor. The sake type it most reminds me of is a sparkling nigorizake.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from the brewery via Furusato Nozei. Super cloudy orange-pink-amber color with lace. Looks like a dark nigorizake. Spicy nose of ginger, yuzu, creamy rice, biscuits, lilies and narcissus and other flowers. Very stragne flavor, mostly yuzu, somewhat flowery, creamy but not at all sake-like, except in the body, which is creamy and smooth like a "bihappo usunigori." Light carbonation also fits that. A strange, interesting, totally unique beer. I would suggest adding koji to make it more sake like, and being careful with the yuzu, as it tastes rather pithy and a bit too astringent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Tanakaya. Pours a hazy, lemon juice pale yellow. Lemon, yuzu and faint ginger notes on the nose. Pillowy, soft mouthfeel with lowish carbonation. Like a sports drink in some ways texture-wise. Some scratchy graininess and lots of lemon on the palate with some faint ginger as it warms. Grainy with a lingering soft tartness. I’m digging this. --- Beer merged from original tick of Takata no Yume on 27 Sep 2016 at 21:21 - Score: 7. Original review text: Kinda digging this. Named after the rice from iwate-Kura. Light bitterness, some tartness. Scratchymineral water like mouthfeel. Soft.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours white and hazy, not that much foam. Reading the name, it sounds like "yume" could be derived from two words: "yuzu" and "ume" (that was before I did some research and found out that Takata no Yume is basically a rice brand - that has been used in this brew). Anyhow, I could get some strong yuzu in the nose and when drinking it, the body was quite soft and pillowy, sort of reminding me ume plums. Surprisingly good, fresh and fragrant fruity rice ale - that actually has yuzu in it as well, so my initial guess about the name wasn’t that wrong. If you asked what I’d like to drink in Japanese summer, then I would answer "something like this"