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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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark orange color with white head. Nice aroma of caramel and soft hops. Bitter finish. Classic English taste with nice residual sweetness. Very full and balanced for this ABV.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2015
at 11:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear, lively amber beer with a decent foamy head. Sweet citrus aroma. Flavour is tangy grapefruit, undercut by caramel and a sour, malty aftertaste. It’s really nicely balanced and if anything a touch too drinkable for the strength!
Tried
on 24 Jan 2015
at 14:21
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Appearance is cloudy amber with a one-finger white bubbly head. Aroma- malty, caramel, vague hoppiness, fruity. Taste- malty and a bit creamy, toffee/caramel, hoppy, orange and hints of raisin, medium to full in the mouth, hardly any bitterness. Nice, doesn’t seem at all like 7.5%.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2014
at 03:50
7/10
Tried
on 25 Sep 2014
at 18:03
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Aroma caramel, malty, diacetyl Clear amber colour. Taste is caramely, with moderate to light high bitterness. Ambiguous hops flavour, herbal, earthy. Long bitter finish. Good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2014
at 10:15
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Review based on the BJCP2008 guidelines (style 14A adapted). Bottle 33 cl - Batch J.14.02. AROMA: no hop notes with sweet malt aromas reminiscent of caramel. very low fruitness. APPEARANCE: amber color and hazy. moussy tanned head with good retention. TASTE: medium bitterness that lingers into a dry finish with no hop flavours. unbalanced high malt flavours. PALATE: medium-light body with moderate carbonation. OVERALL: although the comercial description says it is a IPA, this beer is unbalanced towards a sweet malt profile but its not that bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2014
at 15:58
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
0,33L bottle. Aroma is caramel, malt, fruits, pine and some sweetness. Pours amber with off-white head. The head stays. Flavor is sweet, caramel, malt, grapefruit, and cedar. Finish is bitter with some caramel thrown in. Overall: nice sweet hoppy brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2014
at 12:01
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Archer Road Beer Stop, Sheffield. Hazy, dark orange. Plenty of thick, sticky, off white head. Nice, fusty maltiness. Light spice to match. Overripe orange. Taste is fusty sweet. Some spicy dryness. Palate is chewy, with enough carbonation to even things out. Finish is toffee sweet, before a lingering, spicy bitterness. Lovely stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2014
at 12:31
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Nice foggy golden body but almost no head. Soft aroma of barnyard funk, cider, smells you don’t usually get from an IPA. Flavour is a lot of nut and malt with a strong hops and citrus finish. Good mouthfeel. A unique and refreshing take on an IPA.
Tried
on 25 Apr 2014
at 11:36
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Ins Glas ergießt sich ein trübes orangegoldenes Bier mit sehr viel Schaum. Geruch leicht malzig fruchtig, blumig. Geschmack leicht fruchtig malzig, dezent herb, wenig exotisch fruchtig, dennoch gut trinkbaren Bier.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2014
at 12:23