Haskap Blonde
North Island Beer in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan 🇯🇵
Collab with: MikkellerFruit Beer Regular
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Score
7.08
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8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Cafe De Tete. Japanese beer rating 1000! Not blonde! Aroma is nice, berries, raspberry, bit of cherry, blueberry. Taste is great, fruity, light funk and sourness, leather, creaminess, but spritzy. Really nice. Finish is cherry drops
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:03
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at the WWWW Mid Atlantic Summer Beer Tasting. Hazy pink-purple, large creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of earth and sweet blueberries. The taste is tart blueberries and mild earth. Medium bodied, low carbonation, lingering tartness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2015
at 00:37
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Pink pour. Bretta, citrus. Tangy finish. Lots of copper and oak. Strange mix. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Aug 2015
at 11:07
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 3
From a 12 oz bottle at the WWWW RB tasting. It is a cloudy amber color with a thick ecru head. The aroma is typical saiison and the taste is Saison l
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2015
at 17:48
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at the RateBeer WWWW Tasting shared by MrChopin, thanks! Pinkish orange with off-white head. Aromas of floral, light berries. Tastes of berries, floral, light tart notes. Light body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2015
at 22:34
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From a 12 oz bottle at the WWWW RB tasting. Pours a hazy copper with a thick ecru head. Saison like. Nothing exceptional.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2015
at 20:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Cloudy amber color. Aroma of herbal berries. Taste is very lightly tart berry, caramel, dry finish. Easy drinking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2015
at 18:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Qbrick. Reddish pink, cloudy, with a fine head. Nose is wheat, berries, acid. Nicely tart flavor, wheat, fruity berries. Crisp and light a bit like a Berliner weisse. Good fruity tartness makes it a nice summer drink.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jun 2015
at 20:48
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy pink purple color with a small white head. A big funky fruity nose. Odd, yeasty, tart, big berries, funky. Hmm. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2015
at 21:21
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from CBB. Haskap Blonde which is made with the haskap berry. What’s that? I have no idea! It is known as honeyberry in Russia and is a waxy looking blue berry roughly 1cm long with the name haskap being based on an Ainu word. Sounds cool, I’d love to grow some! For something that is billed as a blonde ale it pours a really remarkable deep purple red with a thick head of pink foam. A great ara of tart berry goodness with maybe just the slightest hint of the belgian yeast they used. Sharp spritzy carbonation. Wow, does this pack some interesting flavors. Tart, then sweet berries but with a sort of earthy/cork like caracter, some saltiness like from a sea breeze, wine, this is quite nuts. The closest I can get is like those odd Cantillons I’ve had (Soleil de Minuit, Tyrnilambic Baie d’Argousier), nowhere near as sour or tart as them but with a similar unfamiliar berriness. The aftertaste on this is great - soft sweet berries similar to blueberries. A great collaboration.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2015
at 09:55