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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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
2009 Commemorative Bottle. Pours a cloudy orange with small frothy white head. The aroma is rose petals, strong floral, spice. Medium mouth with sweet fruit, light spice, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2015
at 16:49
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Popeye served in a snifter. Beautiful rusty caramel color with a modest head. Fig, vanilla and muscat aromas present on arrival. Sweet malty taste with well balanced hops and spiced finish. Goes down smooth. Great winter beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Feb 2015
at 23:44
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at brass monkey. Pours copper, nose is caramel, vanilla, fruity, spiced, taste is similar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2015
at 01:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
I see a hazy honey coloured brew that brings almost a 2 finger head of foam. Lacing is you betchya!
The nose is pretty festive. I get some nutmeg(a fav of mine in winter brews), coriander, some grape like fruitiness, all on the malty and fruity side and nay to any bitter notes.
Nutmeg and a sweetish malt flavour that reminds me of the lovely oxidation you get in a UK barleywine or old ale is first up for me. I do get some coriander and some other spiciness that doesn’t strike me so hot. Now there’s a strange bitterness that creeps in in the finish. It really started off great but...
Medium body, lightish carbonation.
Bottom line, it’s strong and pretty good overall. I had higher hopes based on my first sips.
The nose is pretty festive. I get some nutmeg(a fav of mine in winter brews), coriander, some grape like fruitiness, all on the malty and fruity side and nay to any bitter notes.
Nutmeg and a sweetish malt flavour that reminds me of the lovely oxidation you get in a UK barleywine or old ale is first up for me. I do get some coriander and some other spiciness that doesn’t strike me so hot. Now there’s a strange bitterness that creeps in in the finish. It really started off great but...
Medium body, lightish carbonation.
Bottom line, it’s strong and pretty good overall. I had higher hopes based on my first sips.
Tried
on 23 Jan 2015
at 18:35
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft. Clear amber color, medium white head. Aroma of orange peel and light spice. Taste has fruit, raw bread, citrus. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Jan 2015
at 17:40
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Nice fruit, with prominent nutmeg and other spices. Good balance, and finishes with light sweetness. Tap.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jan 2015
at 09:12
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
330 ml bottle @ Patricks as Commemorative Ale. Clear amber body with a medium sized white head. Aroma feels like sweet malt, dry fruit, some caramel and spices. Flavor is sweet malt, dry fruit, brown sugar, and spices, relatively bitter and warming alcohol. Full body and long, sweet aftertaste with dry fruit. A bit unusually but nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2014
at 13:21
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Sunday's Grocery at Jay's. Super malty aroma with an herbed sweet potato smell. Taste is similar - tastes like food, not in the usual salty/savory way that some beer can. More herbs and, again, sweet potato. Odd, but not offensive. Wouldn't get again though I don't think.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2014
at 23:46
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Botella de 33 cl en el lúpulo en la madrugada del 08-06-2014, en el momento. (Cons pref antes de 02-2015). Color ámbar oscuro con espuma blanca no muy persistente. Aromas ligeros y finos de maltas ligeramente dulces y bastante especiadas. Cuerpo medio a fuerte con 8 vol que se notan en todo momento. Paso por boca no muy denso y generando espuma. Sabor también maltosos con cierto dulzor de frutas pasas, higos... y un montón de especias (se nota el cilantro al inicio seguido de la nuez moscada), todo ello bastante refinado u acabando con un amargo casi inexistente. Bastante buena, sabores finos maltosos, especiados destacados, para repetir.
Tried
on 25 Jun 2014
at 02:34
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Trübes orangegoldenes Bier mit ordentlicher Schaumkrone. Geruch stark nach Gewürze, Orange, fruchtig. Geschmack sehr würzig malzig, Banane, Orangen, Gewürze, Kräuter.
Tried
on 18 May 2014
at 02:30