IPA
Tamamura-Honten (Shiga Kogen Beer) in Shimotakai, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵
IPA Regular|
Score
7.05
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Craft Heads, Tokyo
Very light aroma with some sweet berries, like strawberry. Flavour is sweet and berry-like too; some strawberries and hints of tartness. Some hops and bready malt. Rather weird and berryish IPA, not good.
Very light aroma with some sweet berries, like strawberry. Flavour is sweet and berry-like too; some strawberries and hints of tartness. Some hops and bready malt. Rather weird and berryish IPA, not good.
Tried
on 17 Sep 2011
at 23:11
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy citrus aroma with grassy hints. Sweetish malty hoppy bitter piney grassy citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
on 02 Mar 2011
at 00:46
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Draught at Eni-bru, Osaka. Hazy amber. Grapefruit and lychee upfront. Medium bodied with dense, rounded mouthfeel. Intensely hoppy, American style with a caramelly backdrop. Hops fde out somewhat towards a bitter finish, but remains aromatic and intense. A good IPA!
Tried
from Can
on 18 May 2009
at 04:54
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Dark amber color. Hops are distinctively English with apples and oranges everywhere, but brash bitterness is distinctly American. More full bodied and life than the regular IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Dec 2008
at 00:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught at Tadg’s. A bit of caramel backs this earthy hop fest. Some citrus, but mostly earthy, somewhat dirty, and very bitter hops. A solid, clean, man’s drink. Very interesting and great balance.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2008
at 06:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours a copper color with a smallish light tan head. Aroma is fresh fruit, citrus hops(orange mainly), and sweet malts. Hops? In a Japanese IPA? Finally! They’re not as powerful as you’d get in an American IPA, but up to this point I’ve been sorely dissapointed with the sweetness of Japan’s IPAs. This has a nice hop biterness to it right from the start. Sweet, citrus fruits flow into floral and malt. Finshes with a decent dry hop bite. Could still use more hops, but this is a step in the right direction.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Apr 2007
at 06:59
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Medium offwhite coarse head. Slightly hazy amber body with carbonation. Light resiny hop aroma with notes of roastiness. Taste is bitter resiny hops with notes of tropical fruit and wood. Dry wooden aftertaste. Some chalk. Quite good. (0.33l bottle.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2007
at 07:26