Anbai Ale
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
6.87
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Anbai literally means “Salty Plum” and the word is also used to describe the stat of taste and flavor. Ii Anbai means “just right”!
Hitachino Nest Anbai Ale is brewed based on the high alcohol version (7%) of the siganture beer Hitachino Nest White Ale, infused with locally grown green sour plum (ume), and finished up with a pinch of Japanese sea salt (moshio). The balance of sourness, bitterness, comes from the plum and subtle saltiness, great umami taste of the sea salt is “Ii Anbai - just right!”
Hitachino Nest Anbai Ale is brewed based on the high alcohol version (7%) of the siganture beer Hitachino Nest White Ale, infused with locally grown green sour plum (ume), and finished up with a pinch of Japanese sea salt (moshio). The balance of sourness, bitterness, comes from the plum and subtle saltiness, great umami taste of the sea salt is “Ii Anbai - just right!”
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8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2020
at 18:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Small yellowish head, fading, fed by fine carbonation in initially clear orange-golden beer, with a load of small UFO's at the end. Caramel and oxidation (1 1/2 months after BBdate). Something mineral and fruit syrup, bit artificial, as fruitester added to a beauty product. Sweet, sourish lining with a mineral (rather than salty) ending. Again caramel but much more subdued, not overly sweet. There is again a strange perfumey flavour, no doubt due to the plums, not very imposing but rather painting a background. Fruitslick, not very carbonated. Medium bodied at least. Decent, the more as the oxidation didn't return in the nose.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Dranken Geers
on 23 Feb 2020
at 12:38
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Semmi hab, félbarna szín. Visszafogott, gyümölcsös, édeskés, kissé gabonás illat. Enyhén édeskés-savanykás, szilvás, gabonás ízvilág. Közepesen testes, enyhén szénsavas, enyhén keserű. Nem egy nagypályás sör, inkább üdítő jellegű, bár annak meg magas az alkoholtartalma.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2020
at 17:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Slightly unclear golden body with a small white head. Aroma is slightly acidic citric fruit, oranges and plum. Flavor is sweet and sour with pale malt, sour fruit and minerals. Quite much zesty bitterness, feels actually a bit like lemon peel. Medium body and aftertaste that becomes more fruity and bitter, a bit like bitter plum marmelade with lemmon peel. An unusually beer and sure interesting, but I don’t think I will buy again.
Tried
on 20 Nov 2019
at 11:30
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours rather unclear blonde. Small white head. Smell is full, fruity, mild funky. ( sweaty, almost ) . Taste is far better. Salty, intense, fruity back. Sourness is very mild.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2019
at 13:25
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at the hanging bat... Amber thin white lacing.. Soft yeasty fruit nose... Soft sweet plums.. Juicy fruits
Tried
on 18 Nov 2019
at 16:05
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at SBWF 2019. Hazy dark golden with a small head. A bit tart with citrus, some spices and bread. The body was light.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2019
at 08:53
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at Pump. Smell is ume and something a little sweet. Taste is similar. Ume some floral perfume type thing. Again surprisingly sweet. Not sure about that. Don't get the salt unless I look for it.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:03
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
On tap. Pours a hazy yellow with a white head that dissipates to the edges slowly. Aroma has wheat and earthy plum with flora and a bit of coriander. Flavor has lots of wheat with slightly tart earthy plum and a bit of flora backing.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Aug 2019
at 19:27
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
0,33l bottle from Alko. Hazy golden beer with small head. Aroma has sweet malts and fruits. Flavor is weird. It has both very very sweet malts and fruits but also salty, bit sour feeling. However, tartness could be more strong. Medium body, a bit too sweet and orange beer. Fruityness is more like candied version, not real fruits.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2019
at 19:04