Fresh Hop IPA
Sankt Gallen Brewery in Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵
IPA Regular|
Score
6.88
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
More New England than anything but quite dry and sharp. Decent beer at a game!
jinroh (4381) reviewed Fresh Hop IPA from Sankt Gallen Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
330ml bottle from Dogenzaka Shinanoya. Pours creamy orange with actually quite frothy creamy beige head. Fresh piney, somewhat slick and resiny nose, very fresh and even raw hop character there. Taste has also good fresh intense hoppiness, raw hops for sure, grassy and dank. Bitterness feels somewhat green, still strong and lingers in the finish. Body has some nutty character, kind of like hazelnut cracker packed into herbal and hoppy-bitter outer layer. Tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Tap at Molto. Opaque gold with a pungent fruity orange and stone fruit but it also has a bit of a floral underlying edge. Medium bodied with a bit of malt texture and sweetness while the flavor matches the aroma well. This is really tasty and one of the better fresh hop beers I’ve had in Japan. 2020 Review: Sankt Gallen Fresh Hop IPA I’ve never been all that impressed with fresh hop beers, I guess I need to go to the PNW during the harvest someday... This is made with Kaikogane (I guess this is the fresh hop? Domestic variety I never heard of), Vic Secret, Galaxy, Simcoe. Matte brass in color with a big fresh piney aroma at first then after warming up you got caramel. This is VERY BITTER pine bark, twigs, needles. Some old caramel notes but nothing fruity. Very much old type west coast ipa. This went from 3.7 down to 3.2