IPL (India Pale Lager)
Miyazaki Hideji Beer Brewery in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - India Style Regular|
Score
6.84
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at Molto Stand. Hoppy noise—could it be Nelson? Citrus, grass, bready malts. Sweet cake and bready malt flavor, with very nice clean and bitter hops. Rich, thick, good. Very hoppy. I would make it a touch less sweet. Good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Deep golden color. Creamy white head. Grassy hoppy nose. Very light body, tons of grassy hops. Excellent malty backbone, clean dry and wickedly hoppy finish. The hops never disappear from your palate. Wow, amazing beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at Bungalow, I ordered this as I was curious to see just what an Indian or India Pale Lager was. The concept seems to have been to supercharge a lager with extra hops. It poured a nice slightly opaque gold with a nice 1cm of fluffy white foam. It had a nice citrusy floral hop aroma. Unfortunately, the taste kind of didn’t live up to the look of the beer. It was bitter with notes of pine & funk followed by a bit of a grassy taste. As I kept drinking the beer the bitterness got kind of overpowering... it is pretty odd, a nice idea but the execution was lacking. I think they didn’t use so many different kinds of hops, the bitter taste was pretty one dimensional. A for imagination, A- for looks but C- for taste.