Kyoto Brewing Company Shoukyou Secchuu

Shoukyou Secchuu

 

Kyoto Brewing Company in Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, Japan 🇯🇵

Collab with: Kumazawa Brewing (Shonan Beer)
  Wheat Ale Regular
Score
7.28
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 23 Ticks: 7
仲間シリーズ第7弾(48目の仕込み):偶然の出会いは2014年のデンバーにさかのぼります。Craft Brewer's Conferenceにひとりで来ていた湘南ビールのヘッドブルワー・筒井貴史氏は泊まるところがなくて困っていたところで、京都醸造のメンバーがみんなで借りていた家のソファーを提供したことがきっかけとなり、そこから1週間、たくさんのビールを飲んで、笑って、気がつけば友人となっていました。そして、今年フィラデルフィアで開催されたCraft Brewer's Conferenceでも、また同じことを繰り返しました(つまり、飲んだくれた)。さらにもう一つ偶然が重ねっていて、今年のけやきひろばビール祭は共同ブースによる出店をする必要があったのですが、お互いにそれぞれ共同ブースのパートナーを探していた、ということで、ここまでくると偶然にしてはできすぎるぐらいの話かもしれません。

今回のビールは、まずお互いの醸造所が用意できるオーストラリアとニュージーランドを組み合わせるところからレシピの組み立てを始めました。このホップのユニークな特徴をどうやったら生かせるのか考える中で、お互いの醸造所の個性を両方とも取り入れたレシピを考えた際、ベルジャンセッションIPAでは京都醸造っぽすぎ、IPLでは湘南ビールっぽすぎるという壁に突き当たってしまいました。・・・それならいっそ、2種類のコラボビールを仕込んで、けやきひろばのブースで出したらどうか?という発想に行き着きました。コラボをするなら、レシピは全く同じにして、イーストだけを変えたものを造ろう、ということで出来たビールが『湘京折衷』です。京都醸造バージョンはアメリカンウィートスタイル、湘南ビールはウィートラガースタイルで仕上げています。

名前の由来
コラボレーションをして仕込む際の精神は、それぞれがお互いの得意とするやり方から少しばかり踏み出して歩み寄り、新しい地平を獲得するところにある、と思っています。はるか昔、明治時代に文明開化とともに西洋の文物が入ってきたときに、それをうまく解釈・吸収する姿勢が『和洋折衷』という言葉に表されていて、それに通じるものがあると思い、『湘』南ビール、と『京』都醸造のコラボレーションにちなんで、『湘京折衷』としました。

スタイル: アメリカンウィートエール

ABV: 5.0%

Name: Shoukyou Secchuu

Our 7th beer in our 'Nakama', or 'Friendship' series (also our 48th batch): A bit of serendipity brought us together with Shonan Beer at the Craft Brewer's Conference 2014 in Denver, Colorado. Head brewer Takashi Tsutsui was attending alone and in need of a place to stay and we had an open couch at the house Kyoto Brewing Co. had rented. While we had never really spent much time together before the trip, a week of sharing good beers and great laughs made us quick friends. We repeated the experience during the 2016 Craft Brewer's Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the serendipity continued when both parties happened to be looking to share a booth at the Keyaki Hiroba Beer Festival later that year.

The beer started out as an excuse to use the small amount of Australian and New Zealand hops that each brewery was able to acquire. We were having trouble figuring out what the best way to express the unique characteristics of these hops while at the same time blending the character of each brewery. A Session Belgian IPA seemed too Kyoto Brewing Co., while an India Pale Lager seemed too Shonan Beer. Then it hit us: why not brew two collaboration beers and serve them side by side at the shared Keyaki Hiroba Beer Festival booth? To further the collaborative spirit, we decided to brew the exact same recipe at each brewery, changing only the yeast. The result is Shoukyou Secchuu, an American Wheat Ale brewed by Kyoto Brewing Co. and a Wheat Lager brewed by Shonan Beer.

Naming: The spirit of collaborative brewing culminates in both parties stepping out of their comfort zone a little bit in order to produce a beer that neither one would have brewed on their own. In a way, it is similar to the policy of Japan as it looked to modernise following the Meiji Restoration, sending diplomatic missions throughout the globe to learn the ways of the more advanced West in order to adapt them to their own methods when they returned home. Playing on this theme, Shoukyou Secchuu is the harmonisation or blending of Sho (Shonan Beer) and Kyo (Kyoto Brewing Co.)
 

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7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Keyaki. Aroma is good, earthy, citrus, little dank. Taste is good. Grassy, light sweetness, good stuff.

Tried on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:05


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pours nice hazy, just a bit golden. Aroma has some fruits, bit of farmhouse and apple juice taste that feels also funky, bit brett and smooth malt thing going on. Not sure if i am imagining that brett here but I feel it. Nice drinkable brew I’d like to session.

Tried on 14 Jul 2016 at 00:21


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

pale golden color. Big hoppy nose, with some wheat notes. Light body. Very hoppy for a wheat. Big wheat you finish. Pretty damn good. But hoppy.

Tried on 28 May 2016 at 07:45


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cloudy pale. Aroma is hoppy and blackberryish. Mellow, bit yeasty, light, berryish, just a touch of tartness.

Tried on 25 May 2016 at 05:28


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Keyaki spring. Hazy gold with a small white head. Grassy and citrusy nose with some light pear. Dry and pithy on the palate with good carbonation. Refreshing spritzy finish with lemon. Solid.

Tried on 17 May 2016 at 08:42


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap at the brewery. It’s got a welcoming fruity citrus aroma featuring prickly pear. It’s very crisp, light gold in color with pithy lemon,prickly guava and chewy wheat flavors. Really nice, an exemplary American Wheat ale.

Tried from Draft on 15 May 2016 at 05:56


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at Keyaki. Bright gold, cloudy, pretty, with a bubbly head. Grassy hop nose, orange, lemon, wheat malt. Tasty stuff, light, hoppy, grassy, creamy. Nice apricot. Juicy hops. Love it.

Tried from Draft on 14 May 2016 at 08:32