Sheequarsar White Ale
Helios Craft Beer in Yaese, Okinawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
5.97
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This white ale used wheat, adding Sheequarsar (Okinawan Citrus depressa), which is a fruit resembling a lime. Fruity flavored, light & smooth taste.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can picked up at Helios Distillery.
Pours clear light golden with a small white head, light lacing. Fruity, tangerine, yeasty, honey, herbal tea.
Ok. I have had other beers and drinks with Shikuwasa, this is more sweet and herbal than most.
Pours clear light golden with a small white head, light lacing. Fruity, tangerine, yeasty, honey, herbal tea.
Ok. I have had other beers and drinks with Shikuwasa, this is more sweet and herbal than most.
Tried
from Can
at
Helios Sake Distillery - Nago
on 09 Mar 2026
at 05:04
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Aroma has the sheequarsar (however you want to spell it), sweets, seems a bit artificial or maybe even plastic like. Taste is nice enough, lots of citrus, definitely like a soft drink, little bit of a burpy feeling even though it's not that fizzy. Finish is more fruity and maybe shows something more beer-like. Coats the teeth a bit.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:03
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Tasting at Matt’s, can
Hazy blond color, small head. Dry and weak beer, with light bread flavor, and a weird citrus fruit (lime and tropical) more evident in aroma than flavor. Astringent and dry in the final.
Clumsy but a bit refreshing.
Hazy blond color, small head. Dry and weak beer, with light bread flavor, and a weird citrus fruit (lime and tropical) more evident in aroma than flavor. Astringent and dry in the final.
Clumsy but a bit refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jul 2016
at 20:05
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Can, pours a cloudy dirty blonde with a medium white head. Aroma is very floral, with weird fruity floral notes dominating, along with coriander and wheaty notes. Flavour is along the same lines, with lots of citrusy weirdness, some heavy floral notes (probably from the fruit as well) and a little spiciness. Odd, but not too bad.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jul 2016
at 20:02
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Can. Slight haze, light colour. Not much head. Aroma mixes some stank yeast, and also the nectarish bright fruit. Sweet, with a light fruity character, maybe some fruity acidity, too. Odd character, not sure how much is attributable to the fruit and how much attributable to the base beer. I won’t say it’s bad, but it’s definitely odd.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jul 2016
at 20:00
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
(can) clear pale yellow colour with a tall white head; vigorous carbonation; aroma starts with sourness and rubber, then ginger ale, lime; balanced flavour with a medium long, light sour finish
Tried
from Can
on 11 Sep 2015
at 20:28
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Pours slightly hazy, yellow-pale. Not much of a head and what it has, doesn’t stay for long. Aroma is funny - bubblegum, some funky citrus, lemon tart. Feels more like some kind of fruit-beer cocktail, not really like a beer. Taste goes down in the same vein, artificial citrus fruit, perfumy and not really good. I usually like when brewers are using local ingredients but well, the beer has to taste good also. This time it doesn’t.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2015
at 09:05
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Can from Daiei. Drank straight form the can. Nice shikwasa nose with some metallic and bread-like notes present. Taste is like sugar syrup in a chuhai. The flavors separate into something not good. Metal, plastic, corn syrup and sweet citrus all present. Body is ultra thin and sugary with a slightly chalky mouthfeel. No body to speak of. --- Beer merged from original tick of Sheequarsar White Ale on 15 May 2015 at 20:14 - Score: 4
Tried
from Can
on 15 May 2015
at 06:22
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Can from Le Collier. Citrus and wheat nose, not as sour as lemon. Bread, sugar. Ok nose, but I see that this has a lot of adjuncts, and it comes through. Sweet and fruity, citrus, bread, and again something quite candy-like. Rather full, creamy body. Fruit flavors are decent, but they need to take the malt bill more seriously. They are getting away with the lowest Happoshu category tax on this, and we are paying beer prices, so it makes good profit, but they are cheating on the malt. No wheat used, it seems. A nice idea, could be much better.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jun 2014
at 02:52
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Can, a slightly cloudy pour with a thick fluffy eggshell white head, the nose is fruity mostly some kind of citrus/orange type aroma. The body is smooth and quite full, the taste is decent more fruity than weizen like, a good wheat profile, no hops really and mostly classic orange sheequarser fruit notes. Ok.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2014
at 07:52