Draught at the brewery. Slightly cloudy orange amber colour with frothy off-white head. Aroma is malt, brown wheaty bread. Taste is more biscuity, slightly fruity, small amount of bitterness. Pleasant texture in the mouth. Nice bitter finish, but not the most exciting pale ale or Hitachino Nest beer by quite a way, Maybe, it was just not my thing,

330ml bottle from Beru Vykhodnoy in Moscow. Pours opaque copper with a tall off-white head. Aroma is caramel malt, citrus. Taste is fruity, caramel, light to medium bitterness.

A light coppery colour, a head is medium and blond. Aroma has caramel malts, some citrus, also wood. Taste has caramel, wood, citrus, quite mild bitterness. More caramel in the end. Medium bodied. Quite lots of caramel.

18/8/2018. Bottle from Beers of Europe, Kings Lynn. Pours pale amber with a large foamy but short lasting off-white head. Aroma of hops, malt, caramel, flowers, straw and light pine. Moderate sweetness, bitterness and body. Slight oily texture, average to lively carbonation.

On tap at Kiuchi taproom, Mito station, Ibaraki, Japan. An amber/straw coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, malty, caramel aroma. Tastes hoppy, malty, caramel. Easy drinking pale ale.

330ml bottle. Golden amber coloured with a slight haze, medium white head. Aroma is fruity, light malts, caramel. Taste is also fruity, sweet, caramel, malts, light bitterness. Light bodied, soft-average carbonation that died out by the time I finished. Not bad, like a Golden/APA hybrid.

Surprisingly unpleasant. Perhaps it's slightly off? I trust these guys.

On tap in Tokyo. Pours a clear amber color with a medium white head. A nice sweet fruity and caramel nose. Spicy hops, light citrus, caramel, bready biscuit malt base. Solid.

Bottle to English pint glass, the appearance was a semi-bronzed copper color with a slight transparency more so along the sides of the beer. Fingers worth of foamy white head slid off at an even pace. Not much lace.
The aroma had some biscuity dry malts, somewhat like crackers with some dried hops (Fuggles, I think). Little bit of earthiness, grassiness and dried citrusy pulp.
The flavor leaned towards the malts with a trying sweetness. I hate to use the word bland but I almost want to say that here. Not much aftertaste and a slightly sticky malty sort of finish.
The palate was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine. To be honest, its pretty smooth along my tongue.
Overall, some English pale ales have that diacetyl that can be overbearing, at least with this one though I wanted to say bland in this, it didnt have any diacetyl I will give this beer that.

Bottle. Amber with a white head and a fiair bit fizz. Sticky breadcrust and orange marmalade, pine. Bit of an old fashioned boiled sweet to the it. Firm bitterness at the end. OK.