Yuzu Lager
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.77
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Plentiful use of Japanese yuzu gives this beer a delicate yet deep citrus flavor. Enjoy the refreshing acidity from yuzu and the crispness of a lager.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can, many thanks Claude! Rather clear golden color with white head. Aroma is yuzu, cereals, sugar icing. Taste is yuzu flesh, cereals, sugar icing. A bit cardboardy mouthfeel with fizzy carbonation. Fun!
Tried
from Can
on 21 Oct 2018
at 22:28
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can. Tart yuzu orange peel. Golden, offwhite head, medium light body, light dust and minerals, fresh citrus peel finish.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Oct 2018
at 16:46
8/10
Go go, owl, go!
Tried
on 10 Oct 2018
at 22:44
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
350 ml can into lager glass, canned in 12/2017. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1 finger fairly dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of lightly tart ruby red grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange, peach, citrus peel/rind, pepper, pine, cracker, white bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/pine hops, yuzu, and moderate pale malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of lightly tart ruby red grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange, peach, citrus peel/rind, pepper, pine, cracker, white bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine/citrus peel/rind bitterness and light fruit tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart ruby red grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange, peach, citrus peel/rind, pepper, pine, cracker, white bread, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops, yuzu, and moderate pale malt flavors; with a great malt/bitter/tartness balance, and no hop/fruit astringency after the finish. Moderately crisp/clean finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness, fruit tartness, and carbonation. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth and moderately grainy/sticky, lightly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.5%. Overall this is a nice fruited pale lager. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/pine hops, yuzu, and moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish. Flavorful and not watery feeling for the ABV. Vibrant yuzu fruit and Cascade/Amarillo hops, with a solid pils malt backbone. A bit underwhelming, but a nicely enjoyable and well made offering.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Mar 2018
at 00:31
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at Takumi craft beer bar, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a clear straw colour with a frothy white head. The aroma is malt, grassy hop big Yuzu fruit. The flavour is moderate sweet light bitter with a crisp, slightly watery malt, citrus, Yuzu palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Sweet fresh and fruity. It's all about the Yuzu!
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Oct 2017
at 07:31