Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest Anbai Ale

Anbai Ale

 

Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵

  Fruit Beer Regular
Score
6.88
ABV: 7.5% IBU: 10 Ticks: 89
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!”
 

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6.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and plum. Flavor is quite sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish with a little salt. 290917
Tried from Bottle on 29 Sep 2017 at 12:55

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Medium head with medium duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are sweet fruits, yeast, malt, hops and has a sweet finish.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Sep 2017 at 12:50

9/10
Tried from Draft at As Is NYC on 24 Sep 2017 at 00:11

7.1/10 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 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 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 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 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 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 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