Ibuki Hop Saison
Tono Zumona Beer in Tono, Iwate, Japan 🇯🇵
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.68
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Strong spiciness, clove? Nice saison feel but not so easy drinking.
One more time:
Dunno what happened last time but this is really nice. Light strawberry and cream, hops work really well.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Zumona Ibuki Hop Saison Tap at a festival in Kyoto Art Center near Shijo. 500¥ spicy cloudy be and wheat aroma, medium bodied with a rough chewy wheat character, the taste has cloves and spices. Rough around the edges but ok, better than I expected from Zumona. Looks like it's improved over the 2017 version, who knows maybe 2019 may even start to edge into the good-above average range.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Ibuki Hop Saison from Tono Zumona Beer 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught at the Ichinoseki Beer Fest 2017. Cloudy orange with lace. Phenolic nose, oranges, peaches, biscuits. Very spicy, yeasty flavor, phenols, a bit astringent in the finish. Oily, minerally and a bit rough. Need to work with this yeast a bit.