Ancient Nipponia (Bottom Fermented)
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
Speciality Grain Regular|
Score
6.99
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
550ml bottle. Pours a hazy orange-gold with lots of floaties and a large, frothy, long lasting, off-white head that leaves curtains of lace. Sweet aroma of pale malt, caramel, floral, apricot, orange, yeast and pine. Sweet, fruity flavour of orange, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, melon, apricot, biscuit malt, yeast and pine with a dry, bitter, hoppy finish. Medium body with a thick, smooth, oily texture and soft carbonation. Interesting and original.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Golden amber, good white foam. Strange aroma: herb, dill, spices, slightly woody and malty, sweet nectar. Taste: malty, sweet, fruit, grass and wood.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cloudy med amber. Thin head. Phenols, paint on the nose. Quite sweet and a fairly pronounced alcohol character. Ok if you like strong quasi-Belgiany things.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. moderate malty and hoppy aroma. light bitter strange herbal flavor. Average light bitter finish. Oily palate. Messy.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle in the hotel. Pours golden orange, nose is herbal, burnt, salty, lemon, grassy, taste is bitter, lemon, toffee, bubblegum, chewy, sweet.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A dark yellow with an orange notes, a head is medium and blond. Aroma is unique and interesting, strong notes of Sorachi’s herbs, fruitness, fruit candies, marzipan and mandarin. Taste has fruitness, mandarin, herbs with notes of Sorachi Ace, some bitterness is balancing the medium sweetness. Medium+ bodied, low carbonation. Interesting beer with a great aroma. Fruitful with herbs.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
0,55l bottle. Piwo o ladnej barwie jaskrawo zoltej z lekka metnoscia i solidna trwala pianka. Zapach mirabelek suszonej moreli oraz zbozowy. Smak oleisty, trawa cytrynowa oraz oliwki zielone. Troche zielonej herbaty terz bylo i jakis ziol. Na koniec troche alkoholowe ale ogolnie smaczne i tresciwe zbozowe piwo.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Hasewgawa. Shared at a tasting. Pours a slightly hazy copper-brown with a one-finger beige head. Sorachi ace all over the nose with dill and grass coming out. Also some malt present as well. As it warms some sake koji like notes come out. Taste is sweet with some grassy, dill notes as well. Medium to heavy body with average carbonation. Finish is sweet with some light grassy bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy weak yeasty aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty weak hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle, on recommendation of Josh and Toni. Pours amber with very little head, almost no lacing. This beer features a typical amber ale taste with clearly unusual hops and malt. Satisfying complexity, but also a bit odd.