Libushi IPA
AJB - Anglo Japanese Brewery in Shimotakai, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵
IPA Regular|
Score
6.90
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Tap at Gremlin. What a difference a year makes (apparently). Wow, nice. Very fruity, very west coast, grapefruit, resin, and a bit tropical too. Reminds me of house IPA. Got that stinky thing going on that I like. Quite bitter and hides the booze well. Lemon drops, papaya. Find something new with each sip. Biscuity malt. Good stuff.
jinroh (4381) reviewed Libushi IPA from AJB - Anglo Japanese Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap @ Shinshu Osake Mura. Probably a new version of this beer as this one is brewed at their new production brewery for sure. Amber pour, slightly cloudy, minimum foam on top. Fruity tropical and sweet nose and bit of honey, malt body there but balanced with bitterness. Good bitterness in the body, slick with resins, very bitter citrus peels. Bit on the heavier side, chewy and super intense - but delivers well on IPA-ness.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Served in a small half-pint glass & shared with KyotoLefty. The IPA pours a cloudy honey amber, the nose is nice & hoppy. I got mostly pine needles & citrus. A nice smooth medium body with a soft carbonation. The taste is pine needles, citrus passionfruit & some mild resin. A good IPA that is already better than many Japanese craft breweries offerings, especially considering they’re such a young brewery. It shows lots of potential though they need to work on the look of the beer, this bottle conditioned one was very cloudy but the photos I’ve seen of it on draft looked markedly better. A solid start.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle with KBL. Hoppy, spicy nose, oranges, peaches, a touch of cinnamon, pine. Brown-pink-orange colored, muddy, floaties. Sweet and fruity, passion fruit, pine, orange, peach, gum balls. A bit too sweet, seemingly under-attenuated, but a good start for a new brewery. Nice flavors.