Ancient Nipponia
(has 1 batch)
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
Speciality Grain Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.95
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 550ml.[ Courtesy of Alex420 ]. Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, grain, toasted, hay, malt, vanilla - cask notes, licorice notes. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, can pineapples, licorce (lakridskonfekt). Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110325]
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2011
at 11:15
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Golden color. Flower nose with an excellent buscuity malty nose. Well balanced, nice hoppy mouth. Very nice golden ale with a bit more punch and depth over your typical English summer blonde. Fairly aggressive bitter finish. Nice beer.
Tried
on 01 Apr 2011
at 02:17
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber beer with a whitish head. Lemon and dust aroma with yeast. Lemon and pine flavor with yeast and earthiness. Medium bodied. Pine and lemon lingers with yeast and light malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2011
at 10:25
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ J&C, Friday session, 2011. Thanks. Pours hazy golden with a small floaties and a small creamy white head. Nose is exotic fruit - pineapple. Very fruity with a bit of sweet notes from vanilla and hops. Fresh and ends dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2011
at 02:26
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Small, dense yellowish head over metallic copper-golden beer. Bit perfumed nose - ricelike, but not sakelike. Oxydized citrus aroma, orangepeel. Ourspoken orangepeel flavour, even mouldy oranges; bitterish and fruity. Watery MF, feels more carbonated than it looks. The rare ingredients failed to make the flavours more interesting.
Tried
on 13 Mar 2011
at 11:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle in hotel room Ibis Kortrijk thanks to Ken. Gold clear with lasting white head. Good fruit. Melon honeydew melon flavour. Decent tasty lovely balanced juicy sweet fruit and hoppy bitterness. Good interesting beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2011
at 10:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle marked 10.07. Pours with a opaque yet vibrant golden body with a thin bone colored head. Aromas of pinesol, windex, cedar, lemon, dill, cobwebs, grass, bug replant, and nearly a light koji note. Smells like a citronella candle. Flavors of lemon, mosquito repellent, RAID, chemicals, mushrooms and more lemon peel. Really potent citrus lemon component. More citronella. Malt bill tastes like buttered (heavily buttered bread). Medium carbonation. Dry. Don’t know how much of this I can drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2011
at 21:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Delicious, easy-drinking hoppy Belgian-style ale. Odd bottle - 550ml and appears to be made of some sort of funny extra thick glass, colored a very dark green. The beer pours a touch hazy and brightly gold with some tiny particles of yeast sediment and a big white head. Aroma is lemongrass from the Sorachi Ace with some light fruity notes from the Belgian yeast. Taste starts with some sweet, light malt, gets a bit earthier and finishes yeasty and a bit bitter. Carbonation is relatively low. No booze to speak of. Drinks bigger than its 6.5% abv would suggest. I bet it would pair very well with food. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2011
at 21:06
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
550 mL bottle from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA, opened 9/8/10. I missed this at the RBSG Grand Tasting so I’m glad they decided to distribute to the US. Pours a hazy orange-lemon color with a thin white head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of earthy, citrus hops, citrus zest, pale caramel malty notes and a bit of a nutty note. The taste is huge citrus notes, orange, blood orange, grapefruit, dry orange soda. Some faint caramel malts. Medium bodied. Tasty beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2010
at 13:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Another great-looking bottle from this brewery. Contents pours hazy gold with a large white head that fades to a coat. Aroma has zest of old lemons, doughy/ earthy yeast, apples, shiso leaf. Delicate, slightly creamy texture. Taste is fruity and spicy with quite a woody end. The fruits include pear and apple; the spices white pepper, shiso leaf and coriander. But there are other fruity notes I can’t identify at all. And sherbet drops. The spices take over again after the wood. I don’t know how much of my enjoyment of this is related to its apparent originality. Intriguing and good - but pricey.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2010
at 04:25