African Pale Ale - AfPA
Tamamura-Honten (Shiga Kogen Beer) in Shimotakai, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.98
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours quite pale, nice white foam. Aroma very fresh, lots of herbal hops, full of citrus. Taste is quite light loaded with citrus and grapefruit flavours again Quite thing body, so letting these citrus aromas to come out especially nicely. Still easily drinking, another nice one from Shiga Kogen.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
On tap at Sapporo craft beer forrest at ban k summer 2014. Really nice gold color with a modest white head. Strong papaya, pineapple and grapefruit nose. Very crisp and refreshing on the palate. Bartlett pear, honey and pine flavors present. Great on a summer day. Nice crisp finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Africa Pale Ale on 30 Mar 2015 at 15:29 - Score: 8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at komachi. Pours out a light golden topped with a small white head. Nose is a nice hop mix some mellow malts and a grass touch. Taste is as th the nose with a solid hop touch.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
330 ml bottle poured into a hotel glass. Slightly hazy straw yellow with off-white head. Aromas of citrus, floral. Tastes of citrus, floral notes, lemon, light pine. Medium body with a dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Asahiya served in a footed pilsner glass. It pours a light copper gold with a very minimal head that vanishes in a blink. It has a really nice herbal and pine cone dank hop bouquet. Medium bodied with a somewhat watery mouthfeel. The taste is sweet malts and peppery pine - decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at Ushi-Tora 2, Tokyo. Hazy yellow color, small white head. Aroma has gooseberry bushes and citrus with light passion fruits. Light-bodied. Flavor has tropical fruits, gooseberry and grapefruit. Nice tropical flavor.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
ładny, dość intensywny (ale bez przesady) chmielowy zapach. słodkie tropikalne owoce, liczi, mango, nashi, do tego sporo żywicy i trochę świeżej trawy. kolor złoty, dość mozcno zmętniony, piana mało obfita ale dość trwała. w smaku dość pełne, słodkie, ale zdecydowanie od chmielu, nie od słodu. goryczka średnia, w smaku przypominająca sok z czerwonego graefruita albo skórkę. dość długotrwała, ale w przyjemny sposób. dość niskie nasycenie sprawia, że piwo jest całkiem aksamitne i łatwo pijalne
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft - Nice sweet citrus hops. Clear gold with a decent white head. Big burst of citrus hops, with a good amount of bitterness to follow up. Finishes clean and refreshing. Glad to find a great session APA in Japan, just wish I found it more often.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
12 oz. bottle, courtesy of TimE. Golden color, a bit hazy. White head, not much. Aroma’s: citrus, hints of lychee, a bit vegetables. Retronasal it’s very hoppy, a little earthy, slightly sweet. Flavor is moderate bitter with hints of fruity acidity. Light bodied. Long, rather bitter finish, but not harsh. Nice APA, but no idea why it’s called African.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home London - big thanks to Tim for trading me this one! Pours cloudy yellow-gold with a large, frothy pure white head. Lots of juicy citrus on the nose, some lychee or something, mild pee and grapefruit. Light to medium sweet flavor with lightly bready pale malts, delicate cat pee, more grapefruit, lemon, some tangerine. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Well balanced on the finish with further bready pale malts, grapefruit, mandarin orange, hints of pine needles. Lovely beer. Effortlessly drinkable.