Craft Select India Pale Ale
Suntory Liquors Limited in Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵
IPA Regular|
Score
5.57
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Spotted this in Natural Lawson. Pours clean amber, filtered and watery, thick two-finger head, quite persistent. Aroma is faint, plastic and cardboard, not really getting any hops. Sweetish. First sip is carbonated, hops still missing - although this beer is probably a bit more bitter than usual Suntory Malts. Not better though, feels weird, far from a real IPA, more like a pilsner where they have just have used a bit too much of hop extract. Because hop extract it must be, with all this artificial-feeling side-tastes. Not good. Can still finish my glass.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Suntory Craft Select IPA 6.5% Pouring a deep yellow with a thick soapy long-lasting head of foam. It’s got that sweet fruity/floral hop character most hoppy brews from major Japanese companies tend to have. Medium bodied, a bit undercarbed with a sweet artificial grape fruity-floral hop character. Too sweet and the body is somewhat cloying. Pass.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can. Citrus nose, orange, grapefruit, a bit spicy, but of grass and flower and light biscuity malt. Gold with orange tints, thick medium head. Spicy, fruity flavor, oranges, biscuits, somewhat strangely spicy, with sage or chamomile. Decent hops, though. The yeasty spice character is a bit Belgian in character. Crisp, though just a bit too sweet. Not great, but not nearly as bad as so many people are saying. I’d have another.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Can from Lawson. Drank straight from the can. Cardboard, light fruit esters, peach and stale malt. Malty with a strange off-flavor...plastic maybe? Lager like in a way with some slight kolsch moves. Body is somehow watery with an almost cloying finish. This is not an IPA in any sense of the definition on top of that it is just not a good beer. One of the worst in this series. --- Beer merged from original tick of Craft Select India Pale Ale on 16 Dec 2015 at 19:35 - Score: 2. Original review text: Is this a fucking joke? IPA じゃない....あとは全然美味しくない.....