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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5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
bottle from kihoskh. cloudy orange, smooth white head. malty, orangy , spicy and bitterhoppy aroma. flavor is quite spicy, cinnamon, sweet malts, some bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2011
at 10:24
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 11.2fl.oz.
[ As Hitachino Nest Commemorative Ale ].
[ Trade by Alex420 ]. Clear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, sweet malt, moderate yeasty, sweet bubble gum, spicy, coriander, nutmeg. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, peppery, candy - bubble gum sweet. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110408]
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2011
at 06:40
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Jan & Charlotte’s, Ulfborg, Denmark, 08.04.11 thanks Jan & Charlotte for this. mmmhh.. strange beer this, it’s like Barley wine mixed with bubble gum There is a real vanilla streak and its spicy, bit too much of the latter in fact. Warmth from the alcohol, nice sweetness. Interesting beer but not totally my thing. A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov12 3.1
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2011
at 13:23
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle bought at the Kiuchi brewery in Ibaraki 2 years ago, my last one. An orange/amber coloured pour with a huge head on top. Complex aroma of spice, orange. Tastes of vanilla, orange, cinnamon, spice, dark fruit. Belgian in character. Very nice indeed, hope to pick up some more on my next trip to Japan this year.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2011
at 06:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330mL bottle, pours bright orange with a big white head. Subtle aroma of spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander) and yeast. Flavour is a wonderfully balance of the mentioned spices, with rich caramel/toffee flavours and a nice hoppiness in the finish. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2010
at 22:15
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Dark brown ale. Very thick. Some sediment, but held up pretty well for having aged several years. Rated 4/15/10
Tried
on 30 Apr 2010
at 11:57
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours orange/amber with a large head that keeps growing.Nose shows nutmeg, wheat, lots of phenols, coriander. Orange peel is noticeable as a sharp tangy note and later as marmalade. Vanilla is subdued initially but quickly becomes more prominent. Aromas from the malt show distinct golden syrup and brown sugar. Very sweet, very complex, very interesting.Upon tasting....well, let me say this is pretty full-on. Loads of malt with lots of brown sugar notes, some wheat, a fair bit of booze. Very Belgian, has some qualities you’d expect in a Dubbel. Coriander and nutmeg show through. The coriander continues into the lengthy finish, along with a light bitterness and smooth alcohol.Creamy body and carbonation, although higher carbonation would do well to cut the bitterness.
Tried
on 18 Apr 2010
at 04:26
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
5th November 2008. Very very lively and frothy beer that took a good 10 mins to settle down and mop up! Worth the wait and effort. Cloudy brown with an immense white head. Doesn’t smell infected. Sweet effervescent orange cream held in check by the less sweet coriander. The other spices are subtle (which makes a refreshing change). Really nicely joined up. Very very moorish and a superb beer.
Tried
on 24 Jan 2010
at 09:21
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
2009 bottle. Pours with a large, creamy, off-white head over a hazy amber body. Aroma has some sourness and vinous notes, mint, spices, and florals too numerous to mention. Taste is belgian yeast and slightly sour, belgian candi, spices, and sweet spices including nutmeg and vanilla. Foamy/lively bubbles and a dry mouthfeel. A bit of a convoluted mess really.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2009
at 22:48
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
11.2 ounce bottle from Plaza Liquors in Johnson City, TN (adjacent to Libation Station). Pours a hazy ruby color with a large head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma is toffeish malts, wood and lots of spice, with nutmeg and citrus particularly showing through. Taste is citrus, dark malts, wood, vanilla, spice. Almost liqueur like. Alcohol makes its presence known, and is warming, but the beer is not hot. Full bodied with fairly strong carbonation. I’m liking this one a lot. Well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2009
at 01:33