Grassy Ale
Baeren Brauerei in Morioka, Iwate, Japan 🇯🇵
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
7.05
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TimE (11146) reviewed Grassy Ale from Baeren Brauerei 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
golden color, frothy white head. Beautiful white wine nose with peaches. Very dry a bit astringent but nice.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Grassy Ale from Baeren Brauerei 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from the brewery in the 20th anniversary (2023) Autumn set. Remake of a beer first brewed in 2013 (and obviously also in 2018-19). Bright, clear gold with a fall, frothy head. Grassy nose, almost like a wet / fresh hop, citrus, bready malt, white grapes (big Nelson hops). Muscat / white grape flavor is pleasant, bready / crackery malt is crisp. Some esters. Somewhat grassy and herbal as well. Quite bitter finish. Not bad at all, and looking forward to comparing the unfiltered version. I got the set for the German styles, but this is nice enough.
tokyobeerdrinker (9001) ticked Grassy Ale from Baeren Brauerei 6 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Peach, it’s nice.
KansaiBeerLovers (8927) reviewed Grassy Ale from Baeren Brauerei 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
5% a bottle I got from the brewery via Rakuten. The Grassy Ale has a fruity aroma with slight grass notes. Wow this beer is really bitter! My mouth is puckering, a clean bitterness... Slightly piney but mostly neutral bitter taste. Another unexpected twist from this series. I was expecting lots of grass, more lager flavor instead I got a lager looking beer with a hoppy bitter flavor. Where the lager looked like an ale, the ale looks like a lager! ———————2018 version———————- I didn’t hear much about this beer that was positive. No complaints about being badly made more that folks didn’t care for it. This made me wary of opening it so I’m finally taking the plunge months later. Nice clear gold with a pillowy thick head of foam. The aroma is fruity, bready and has some herbal/grassy noble hop elements though I find it much fruitier in the aroma. Pretty full bodied with a flavor of hay, cloves and grapes then a bitter grassiness. Definitely a pretty divisive kind of tasting beer I think. Having it months old made that bitterness balance out... ——2023 version——- Baeren Grassy Ale filtered (R) Matte straw gold with thick soapy foam. A slightly skunky herbal hop bouquet on a medium-full body. The filtered version seems to have stripped out some of that unbalanced bitter herbal hoppiness letting the malts come through more and balancing things out. Definitely the filtered for the win over the unfiltered. I boosted it from 3.2 (2018) to 3.6.