Japanese Classic Ale
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
IPA Regular|
Score
6.96
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This Japanese Classic Ale is a recreation of the first Japanese beer made in the Edo period. Please enjoy the Japanese taste, matured in cedar barrels like the old IPA style method from England. bottle-conditioned IPA. Chinook, Fuggles, and Kent Goldings hops are used.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught from Marshall Stack. Pours a nice orange with mild head. Cedar aroma, some citrus, pretty mildly hopped. Well done if not typically IPA ish
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 00:55
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Man they are not kidding about the cedar! Wow, it’s like driunking an ipa from a cedar cup! some nice citrus hops, and a WHACK of cedar throughout the beer. Its quite grassy in the finish. but the cedar really dominates and takes away from everything else.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:21
8/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A small taste from wiosna (bottle) @ Hitachino Brewing Lab Kanda Manseibashi. Pours cloudy copper with a medium head. Aroma is malts, caramel, strawberry. Flavor is malts, caramel, strawberry, hops. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2024
at 11:09
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2023
at 21:11
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2023
at 21:08
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2023
at 17:17
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle from Beers of Europe: BBE July 2022. Drank at home on 2nd Aug 2021. Clean amber body, weak white head. Malty front to the nose and taste, also some bread like features on a floral bed covered in wood chippings!
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2021
at 05:52
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl bottle from Auchan Market in Luxembourg. F: thin, tan, not long lasting. C: coppery, hazy. A: malty, citrus, grapefruits, caramel, some mellow tropical fruits. T: medium to full malty base, grapefruits, caramel, citrus, bit woody, bit toffee, spicy, herbal, bit dried fruits, dry on the palate, soft carbonation, nice balanced beer, fully enjoyed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2021
at 19:04
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2020
at 22:48