Red Rice Ale
Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest in Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 🇯🇵
Speciality Grain Regular|
Score
6.30
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Complex sake like flavors with malt sweet notes. Hints of strawberries in the nose and palate. An intriguing mix of sake, malt , and bitter notes in the finish.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On draught at Beer O’Clock, Annecy. Amber with a cream coloured head. Massive piney-resiny aroma. Malt-led taste: sweet and bready with gentle fruit and pine hops bitters get the finish. Tastes less than 7%. While this beer is very good, I do want more from it... am I greedy?
Tried
on 28 Sep 2015
at 12:34
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5
0.33 l bottle from Pivoteka, Zagreb. Shared with Goran and Vi?nja666, thanks! Opaque golden to reddish, some sediment. Off white head. Aroma is strawberry candy, earthy hops. Sweet, candy again, thin to medium body and medium carbonation. Sweet finish. Watery. Interesting, but average beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2015
at 13:06
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
10cl sample from a bottle. Reddish color, short but persistent offwhite head. Peculiar aroma perfumed, incense, slightly fruity and spicy with an earthy starch note. Sweetish taste, light bitterness Aromatic dry finish. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2015
at 12:16
7/10
Adjunculated indigenous ancient ale. Belgians used coriander. Japanese used rice. Domo arrigato. Kampai.
Tried
at
The Ale House
on 18 Sep 2015
at 13:29
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Amber colored, hazy, medium creamy off white head. Aroma is sweet caramel, strawberry yogurt. Taste is medium+ sweet strawberry, caramel candy-fruity, low bitterness. Medium- bodied and carbonation, bit watery. Quite sweet, no distinctive alcohol notes. interesting but nothing special. (0,33l bottle, Pivoteka, Zagreb)
Tried
from Can
on 04 Sep 2015
at 10:19
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottled 330ml. -from Pivoteka Zagreb. Darker orange/red coloured, medium sized off-white head, some odd buttery nose mixed with something unfamiliar. Odd taste; some fruity/berries acidity with lactic ice-cream like notes. No trace of alcohol. No thanks again for sure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2015
at 17:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Reddish-orange color with white foam. Aroma: rice, spices, yeast, smoked cherry, sea buckthorn, plum wine and sake. Taste: sweet toffee cake, a little jam, plum wine, fruits, hop bitter and dry finish. Nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2015
at 06:20
4.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4
Courtesy of and shared with ogivlado (thanks!). Murky red body slightly tinged with orange, tiny white head. Sweet, slightly buttery malty aroma, light vitamins. Eh. Not offensive, not great. Odd, really odd taste, strangely sweet, pickles in sugar - for me, the finish is offputting, soft mouthfeel that turns strangely sticky... ugh. Vaguely creamy. Strawberry? Not really. Sake? Dunno, haven’t tried sakes like this. Ok, I’ll admit it’s unique, but this is really, really not appealing for me. Borderline bad.... Love the image, the owl, the experimentation. The beer, for me, sucks.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2015
at 11:33