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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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of markgugs. Hazy amber golden with an off-white head. Astringent, fruity Brettish nose. Medium body with fruit and spices being dominant. Astringent, bitter finish. Unusual but quite interesting. 160408
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2008
at 03:08
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours amber into a tulip. Head quickly fills the glass and leaves thick lacing as it slowly...slowly recedes. Upfront yeasty funk and crisp. Well-balanced think middle and a lasting yet dry coriander and citrus finish. Like a funky english barleywine.
Tried
on 09 May 2008
at 11:46
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy orange with a fully diminished white head. Light brettish citric and orange fruity aroma. Flavour is light orange fruity and starts sweet but soon reveals a light dry woody note into the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2008
at 07:58
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Pour is a hazy orange with a large white head. Aroma is huge amonts of candi sugar with some spice. Flavor is lots of spice, cinnamon and clove. Lots of good stuff going on here. Very tasty as only a new years beer can be. If your looking for a way to celebrate the year you are in this is a good one to bring to the party.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jul 2007
at 22:45
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
2004. Glowing amber color with a very active, light tan, head. Interesting aroma of orange, spices, vanilla, cinnomon, nutmeg, and coriander. Reminds me of being in the produce section of a grocery store. Spicy mouth. Very flavorful. The orange is pretty prevelant. Has a floral, coriander, slightly earthy, taste to it. The complex flavors blend well together. Excellent and out of the ordinary.
Tried
on 10 Jul 2007
at 04:18
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
2005 bottle - Pours light amber with a one finger, lingering head. It smells of malt, vanilla, and a variety of spices that put me in mind of ginger, though I see that’s not in the beer. There’s lots of spice in the moderately bitter flavor and enough malt presence to thoroughly bury the 9% abv. The finish is dry. While not my favorite, I think the spices were overdone, this is an interesting beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2007
at 15:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
2004 bottle. Complex aroma of fruit. Citrus, perhaps pear, vanilla and others. Ruby apricot color with a ferocious beige head. Strong fruit flavors, followed by the listed spices. Shockingly good. Finishes relatively dry, with an astringent fruit character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2007
at 20:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 2004 from Ledgers in Berkeley; hazy rust color with a huge straw-colored head; Nose of sweet caramel, cloves, nutmeg, and light banana and vanilla notes; smells like a Belgian Ale; flavor is heavy with caramel malts, nutmeg, cinnamon, some light hops (still showing after 3 years), and a citrus note! Sure beats the hell out of their Red Rice Ale!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2007
at 20:22