Smooth Trap Special Bitter
Y Market Brewing in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan 🇯🇵
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
7.11
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TimE (11144) reviewed Smooth Trap Special Bitter from Y Market Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Light medium amber color. Cloudy. Nice frothy white head. Some orange pekoe and apples in the nose. Soft hops, mineerally with lots of orange and apples. Medium hopped. Well balanced and modest bitterness. Decent stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap into a shaker showing half finger of clean white foam and a moderatelu filtered dark caramel orange. The nose shows a hop forward light pineapple. The palate is lightly carbonated with a similarly light body. A well hopped fruit forward, a light tea like astringency throughout, malts on the mid-palate, and a traditional ESB bitterness on the finish. A modern and extremely well done take on an ESB
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Watering Hole. Citrus all over the nose with white grapefruit, lemon and iyokan dominating. Good carbonation with a bitter, pithy dryness on the palate. Finish is clean and dry. Really great hoppy hybrid ESB. Another one to Y Market.