New Year Celebration Ale
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
Score
6.96
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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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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours deep orange-red with abundant yeast sediment and a creamy, thick light tan head. Lots of spices in the aroma, with orange, cinnamon and coriander being notable. Flavor is surprisingly tangy and fruity with plenty of spice followed by a lingering bitterness. I agree with Frank that this is in the vein of a Belgian Strong. I'm not the biggest fan of spices in beer but I really like the Belgianesque fruity, tangy body of this beer.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2004
at 21:43
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Wonderful foamy pour. Big murky deep red-burgundy with some lighter tones in there. Bottle conditioned (or at least unfiltered). Big light brown colored head. Aroma of lots of spices, i detect mainly the orange peel and nutmeg, which is a bit odd. Flavor is heavily spicy, TONS of coriander, lots of acidic orange flavor, sharp carbonation kick and quite sweet. Some chewy sweetness, and some syrupy sugar flavor makes a futile attempt to balance the orange peel on the finish. Lots of things goin on here, to say the least. Overall, it was pretty good, just a way too sharp and acidic and my throat is still recovering from all that bitter orange and spicy coriander.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2004
at 21:40
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Hazy dark amber colour. Very aromatic - big malts, orange, coriander, ginger (in retrospect, oops!). Overcarbonated. Very sweet - spicy, fruity with lots of orange ans slight sugary notes. This is a fun beer, very savoury, but the carbonation is a major problem. Overcarbonation is like a staticy radio station - you know the song is good but the reception is lousy and that definitely takes away from the experience.
Tried
on 01 Jan 2004
at 15:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
2004 Vintage:
Hazy amber colour with a soapy tan head. Aroma of nutmeg, vegetables, caramel and some crisp maltiness. Medium-bodied; Odd sweet/spicey flavour combination with caramel and some fruity sweetness mixing with nutmeg and cinnamon spiceyness. Aftertaste shows more of the sweet character than anything else-a bit overpowering. Overall, a good beer-lacking in a few places, but a nice drink! I bought this 330 mL bottle from Chevy Chase Wine & Spirits in Washington, D.C. and sampled it on 29-December-2003.
Hazy amber colour with a soapy tan head. Aroma of nutmeg, vegetables, caramel and some crisp maltiness. Medium-bodied; Odd sweet/spicey flavour combination with caramel and some fruity sweetness mixing with nutmeg and cinnamon spiceyness. Aftertaste shows more of the sweet character than anything else-a bit overpowering. Overall, a good beer-lacking in a few places, but a nice drink! I bought this 330 mL bottle from Chevy Chase Wine & Spirits in Washington, D.C. and sampled it on 29-December-2003.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2003
at 19:34