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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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap sold by Maruho at Salt Valley’s Beer Zen Event. A cloudy pink orange with a thick beige head and an acidic plum flavor. Not much malts and the body is very light as well. Alright but kind of simplistic as well as more bittersour than sweetsour
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jul 2017
at 19:32
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Ambar turbia, de espuma poco duradera, dejando un aspecto sucio. Aroma a gengibre y naranja amarga, notas florales, miel. En boca el predominio es ácido, avinagrado, tapando casi todo lo demás, que es malteado y frutal con notas de melocotón más que ciruela. Amargor considerable, y final seco y salado. Extraña y algo difícil.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jul 2017
at 16:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
A murky and yellow beer, a head is small and blond. Aroma is weird and difficult, but not bad, fruitness of plums and meat, also flowers. Taste has plums, some flowers, some harsh spicyness and sourness. Medium bodied. Very weird but interesting.
Tried
on 27 May 2017
at 12:16
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
35,5 cl bottle @ Timo A. BBE 04/2018. Aroma has peaches, apricot and sweetish malt. Flavour is tart and sourish with apricot, salt and sour plums. Not my thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2017
at 10:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Bottle, 0.33 l - BB 04/2018, from Alko, 20170310) The beer poured amber and hazy. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had fruitiness, dark fruits and sweetness. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, dark fruits, grass, sweetness, malts, saltiness and bitterness. Aftertaste was salty, malty, sweet and bitter. Aftertaste had dark fruits, sweetness and bitterness. A surprisingly nice spiced brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2017
at 13:30
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Light, sour, salty and malty but base beer is fairly weak, so unbalanced and ultimately too salty. Don’t get the dec by ratings
Tried
on 31 Dec 2016
at 06:10
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
33cl bottle poured a murky dark gold with some fluffy, white head. Nose is cool, sour tropical fruits, start fruit and papaya, some orange, some yogurt. Flavor is really all tart tropical fruits, lychee, under ripened mango, some stone fruit too. Finishes tart, with some balancing fruit sweetness. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2016
at 20:16
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at Hair of the Dog, Phrom, Phong, Bangkok. Poured a slightly hazy straw colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is toffee caramel citrus yeast. The flavour is light sour, moderate sweet with a dry crisp yeasty buttery tropical fruit palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2016
at 10:20
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keyaki fall 2016. Malt-forward nose with a touch of plum as it warms up. Lots of caramel malt with some plum in the background. Can’t find the salt under all the malt. Sweet more than tart. Feels heavy and syrupy. --- Beer merged from original tick of Hitachino Nest Anbai Ale on 18 Sep 2016 at 13:51 - Score: 6
Tried
from Can
on 19 Sep 2016
at 06:24