Japanese Classic Ale
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
IPA Regular|
Score
6.97
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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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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Best One, Bedford. Ruddy brown, hazy with very little head. Light grainy aroma with bready, caramel and papaya. The taste is... lovely, but really odd. Sweet at first with lychee and toffee flavours, giving way to a wave of intense bitterness for the finish. Lingering astringency in the aftertaste with shadows of umami grain. Highly carbonated. It's interesting. I disliked it at first, then grew to enjoy it. Worth trying but may not appeal to everyone.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2017
at 13:26
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6
330ml bottle from RusBeerShop. Pours hazy orange-brown with a medium-sized off-white head. Aroma is wood, pine, caramel, orange. Taste is wood, caramel, oranges, moderate bitterness, dry finish. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2017
at 12:53
8.5/10
Damn good, unique IPA. After a dozen of their beers, I'm still waiting for a bad one. Can they do no wrong?!
Tried
from Can
on 27 Sep 2017
at 22:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Hitachino Nest Japanese Classic Ale (by Kiuchi Brewery (Hitachino)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
15/IX/17 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ home - BB: V/2017 (oops) (2017-1496) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!
Clear amber to red orange beer, bit irregular creamy solid yellowish head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, sweet, raisins, lots of caramel, ripe banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, yeasty, raisins, hoppy touch, some caramel, soft roast. Aftertaste: grains, pretty hoppy and bitter, some dried fruits, sugary touch. Decent, not super...
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
15/IX/17 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ home - BB: V/2017 (oops) (2017-1496) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!
Clear amber to red orange beer, bit irregular creamy solid yellowish head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, sweet, raisins, lots of caramel, ripe banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, yeasty, raisins, hoppy touch, some caramel, soft roast. Aftertaste: grains, pretty hoppy and bitter, some dried fruits, sugary touch. Decent, not super...
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2017
at 18:08
8/10
Simple IPA with hints of wood/honey/bourbon, cedar casked.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Aug 2017
at 17:01
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
33 cl. bottle @ home. Copper-red color with particles floating in it. Rocky off white head with reasonable retention. Aroma’s: sweet, sweet fruit. Retronasal it’s fruity, light bitter, light wood. Flavor is moderate sweet with light bitterness and a touch of wood. Medium bodied. Finishes a bit bitter and woody, herbal. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2016
at 16:14
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
From bottle at Riga Airport 25.09.16. Cloudy deep orange. Diminishing off-white head. Aroma of apricot. Taste of apricot jam, with some sweetness. Soft bitterness is pleasantly lingering on.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2016
at 07:19
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, medium stable slightly dense bubbly head, cloudy deep orange color,aroma of shrubs and wood with a piney hint, flavor of shrubs tobacco fruit and some biscuity maltiness, medium empathic shrubby bitterness. Not too complex but quite satisfying.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2016
at 13:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml bottle. Hazy amber-orange colour with large white head, good lacing. Aroma of citrus hops, herbs and malt, something else I’m not sure about possibly wood from the Cedar cask. Taste is hoppy citrus and earthy malty, caramel notes, bready, pine. Bitter hop finish. Little bit different from a typical IPA, nice, interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2016
at 21:56
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at Daniels place. 20/02/2016. Many thanks to Daniel for this one. Bright golden / orange coloured pour with a lasting off white head. Aroma is sweet malts, black pepper, little veg, woody. Flavour is composed of nutty, veg, earthy, hop, little black woody, hint of vanilla, Palate is semi sweet, moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2016
at 17:06