Nipponia (2022〜)
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - India Style Regular|
Score
6.94
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A uniquely special Japanese beer brewed with revived “Kaneko Golden” malts, “Yamada-Nishiki”, the king of sake rice and Japan origin hop, “Sorachi Ace”. Enjoy its malt richness, mellow flavour of rice, and refreshing citrusy hop aroma.
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle @ home. Almost clear golden body under a disappearing, medium sized white head. Aroma of grain, an herbal touch and typical Sorachi Ace hops. Taste is very smooth pale malt, grain, herbs, fruity chewing gum (Sorachi Ace) and moderate bitterness. Balanced, quite light body and same aftertaste. An unusually but interesting choice of hops for a lager, but it works out great and I like it.
Tried
on 08 Mar 2026
at 07:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
350ml bottle from RusBeerShop in Moscow. Pours almost clear gold with a small white head. Aroma is herbal, woody, grass, pale malt. Taste is dry, malt, herbal, wood. Medium bitter finish. Light to medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
from
RusBeerShop (2025 -)
on 23 May 2025
at 19:29
5.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
330 ml bottle, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. ABV is 6%. Nearly clear golden colour, large to moderate white head. Aroma of citrus and light malts. Flavour of citrus, malts and spicy and herbal bittering hops, fairly bitter aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
from Vinmonopolet Nettbutikk (netstore)
on 10 May 2025
at 21:05
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
An interesting one. Pale malt, esters, rice or some other strange grain, spicy notes. Light sweet, medium bitter.
Tried
on 14 Feb 2025
at 11:40
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2024
at 19:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap. Pours clear golden, medium white head, good lacing. Aroma is dusty, caramel, honey, perfume. Flavor is light plus sweet, light plus bitter. Interesting. Medium body.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Jul 2024
at 00:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On tap pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is nice light grain malt notes some grassy hops and a little spice. Taste is more of the nice light grain malts grass hops and some belg spice touch.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Apr 2024
at 17:59
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2024
at 16:58