New Year Celebration Ale
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.95
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Full bodied beer with sweet wheat flavor and beautiful dense foam top. It has a pleasant bitterness and unique spicy aroma with Orange Peel, Coriander, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, and Vanilla Beans. Complex yet soothing.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled as commemorative ale 2014. Orangey brown pour, hops, orange peel, spice and some rye notes. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Best Japanese beer I’ve had to date. Slightly sweet flavor. It has a pleasant spicy aroma that smells just like the description "Orange Peel, Coriander, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, and Vanilla Beans". Highly recommended.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2025
at 05:17
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
On tap at Beer Rize in Okinawa. Pours cloudy amber with a small off-white head, light lacing. Malty, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla. Ok
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2019
at 10:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at JBT fest. Golden brown colour. Taste is sweet, ginger biscuits. Nice and hides the booze well. Bit of Belgian yeastiness. Aroma quite nice. Yeasty, malty. Easy drinking.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:53
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap. Reddish-amber color, weak foam. Strange aroma: spicy, herbaceous, butter, a little rice vinegar, dill and pickles, fruity. Taste: spicy, cardamom, fruity, dill and light vinegar with butter, cucumber pickle, wine.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Jul 2018
at 10:54
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from RusBeerShop in Moscow as Hitachino Nest Commemorative Ale 2018, 8%. Pours hazy amber with a tall off-white head. Aroma is bananas, nutmeg, toffee. Taste is light sweet, wheat, cinnamon, bananas, with a light spicy finish. Reminded me of a weizenbock.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2018
at 14:01
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle at 8%, as Hitachino Nest Commemorative Ale. Hazy amber with a beige head, dissipating. Aroma of bready malts, spices, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, fruits. Taste of bready malt, sweet, vanilla, spices, cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander, ripe fruits. Medium bodied, soft carbonation. Interesting beer, sweet and spicy isn't really my thing though as I felt the flavours clashed a bit but seemed fairly good I suppose.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2018
at 16:50
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Thin off white head soon left a cover on a hazy, walnut coloured, slightly effervescent body. Barley Wine aroma with malt, hops, treacle & honey. Medium to full bodied, thick & cloying on the palate with minimal carbonation. Heavily spiced tastes of Christmas spice, nutmeg, over ripe grape, cinamon & honey.
Tried
on 29 Dec 2017
at 16:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330 ml bottle. (Commemorative Ale, 8% ABV) Pours a hazy orange with an average, frothy, long lasting, off-white head that laces. Sweet, spicy aroma of nutmeg, coriander, cinnamon, yeast, orange and malt. Sweet, creamy orange flavour with subtle, spicy notes of coriander, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, yeast, alcohol and a dry, bitter, hoppy finish. Medium body with an oily texture and soft carbonation. Quite unique.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2015
at 00:16
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bernsteinfarben im Glas, Schaum perlt gleich weg. Schönes Malzaroma, leicht fruchtig. Geschmacklich sehr intensiv, alkoholisch, im Abgang leicht Zimt. Respekt, Japan kann Bier brauen.
Tried
on 11 Mar 2015
at 09:30