Pale Ale
Oryzae Brewing in Wakayama-shi, Wakayama, Japan 🇯🇵
Pale Ale Regular|
Score
6.37
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Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Pale Ale from Oryzae Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle, mail order from the brewery. Pours a pale, slightly hazy gold with a low, bubbly head and mild effervescence. Nose is lemony, grapefruit hops, slightly minerally, less fart / manure than the first time we tried it and thus nicer but there is still some there. Some rice and barley graininess. Flavor starts sweet and estery then dries out quickly, with citrus, grain, biscuits, some kind of sweet tart in the mid palate, and a bit of lingering fart. There is some appealing tangy sweet-and-sour thing going on but the finish is a bit dull and lethargic. This has potential but needs work. The whole idea of making beer with koji instead of malt has been begging for someone to try in Japan. Somehow I feel these brewers don't really know how to make sake though. They need to get that down first, and then play with the hops a bit more.
KansaiBeerLovers (8927) reviewed Pale Ale from Oryzae Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Super pale straw gold with a bizarre Smokey fart aroma. Light bodied and very dry with a strange flavor. Quite bizarre. I was the outlier trying this who found it kind of ok.