Amber Ale
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular|
Score
7.07
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This Amber Ale is a reddish brown beer brewed with a rich malt and bitter hops.
Please enjoy the well-balanced flavor and taste. Hops used are Chinook, Cascade and Simcoe.
Please enjoy the well-balanced flavor and taste. Hops used are Chinook, Cascade and Simcoe.
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5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at RateBeer Best. Pours a dark amber with small off white head. The aroma is dark fruit and yeast. Medium body, toasted malt, yeast, light finish, decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2017
at 12:33
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Poured into a becher pint glass, the appearance was a semi-dark amber color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that fell off at a decent pace. Some light stringy lace.
The aroma had some dark fruits, clean caramel/toffee malts, subtle citrusy hops and some leather.
The flavor was malty sweet through the prior mentioned aromas to guide on into the aftertaste in the same way. Finish was somewhat quick and malty.
The palate was between light and medium bodied with a pretty good sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine.
Overall, pretty good amber ale I think I could try again if offered.
The aroma had some dark fruits, clean caramel/toffee malts, subtle citrusy hops and some leather.
The flavor was malty sweet through the prior mentioned aromas to guide on into the aftertaste in the same way. Finish was somewhat quick and malty.
The palate was between light and medium bodied with a pretty good sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine.
Overall, pretty good amber ale I think I could try again if offered.
Tried
on 24 May 2017
at 11:37
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
[1/28/17] Bottle/Draught at RateBeer Best festival in Santa Rosa. Amber. Malt, caramel, piney hops, sweetish, bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2017
at 17:00
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Cotteridge Wines; dark copper pour with a creamy light tan head, aroma has malt loaf, dark fruits and some nutty action, taste has sweet caramel, some sweet citrus, dark fruit, a bit bready, ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2016
at 14:48
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle thanks to Dusan & Simona. Lightly medicinal phenolic, other than that hops centered, thin body, high carbonation. Resiny piney hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2015
at 14:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Theatre of Wine, Greenwich. Reddish-brown pour with a beige head. Aromas of toffee, burnt caramel, chocolate raisin and black cherry. Flavours of toffee, caramel, dark berries, sweet tobacco. Malt laden finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2015
at 03:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
33cl bottle into a Chimay chalice at home on 10th Sep 2015. Cheers son for winning this for me. Off white topping to a reddy brown body. Malty, yeasty nose, Belgian like in fact. Some hop bitterness arrives in the aroma once the maltiness has elapsed a little, or I got used to it. The taste is also malts first with the hops coming through later, mild yeast presence in the background. Highly carbonated, a little too much for me to be honest, almost ’fizzy’ in nature. Dry finish to the taste, but the hop bitterness does not linger, the malts come strong again towards the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2015
at 17:35
7/10
Tried
on 04 May 2015
at 13:44
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
330ml bottle at home. Dark copper color with beige head. Aroma is malty, caramel, dusty, light butter, hoppy, piney, grassy, light fruity. Taste is sweet and bitter, malty caramel, hoppy piney and fruity. Light to medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2015
at 13:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle from Seijo Ishi in Shinjuku station. Poured into a shaker pint. Deep amber and rich brown color with a nice tan head. One of the darkest ambers I have experienced. Nice lacing for an amber. Nice prune, raisin aromas on the nose with vanilla, cinnamon, cardamon, toasted malt and caramel undertones. A bit of resin and pine needles come through as well. Nice balanced between malt sweetness with a touch of bitterness from the hops. Very well-balanced amber. Medium body with a nice medium dry finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Hitachino Nest Amber Ale on 26 Oct 2015 at 23:59 - Score: 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2015
at 23:56