6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Fruity and light yeasty. Sweet, toasted malty and light funky. Bitter, toasted and lingering fruity. Mild bitter too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2013
at 08:23
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4
At the Kyoto mini-beer fest Oct. 2012. This is the pumpkin ale?? It looks like a weizen! It tasted ok but had zero pumpkin flavor. I felt maybe they made it with an ale yeast but followed a lager/white beer brewing technique? Ok as an average ale but no pumpkin so it was a miss for me.
Tried
on 30 Jun 2013
at 17:53
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Iwate Kura’s Passionfruit beer at Yellow Ape Craft. 5% 630 yen at Yellow ape Craft. Nice cloudy gold color, nice passion fruit aroma, bang on! Sweet, citrus bitter, sour then a sweet passion fruit finish. Very nice fruit beer, nice for the summer.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2013
at 06:23
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
12 ounce bottle bought at goodbeer.jp brought back from Tokyo by the wife. Pours a jet black color with a medium beige head. A big salty nose with some smoke and roast. A really nice flavor: rich earthy milky chocolates, salt, some beef jerky, licorice. Very nice. Interesting blend of flavors.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2013
at 23:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap at Devil Craft, Tokyo. Black colour with a small beige head. Sweet burned aroma. Burned malt flavour with some coffee.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Apr 2013
at 07:53
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draft. Cloudy brown color, light brown head. Aroma isroasty and earthy. Taste is coffee grounds, light body.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Mar 2013
at 21:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A bottle from Asahiya. It poured an opaque reddish-brown with a thin white head which dissipated fairly quickly. The aroma was a nice malt sweetness overlaid with a bitter pine hop smell. The taste starts with the malt followed by a mid-mouth hop bitterness and a back of the mouth puckering bitterness. It’s quite bitter but well balanced and nice to drink. I found out the the R stands for Red as well as Respect for Masaji, nice! All in all a very good IPA though not super complex hop wise, great execution though. I’d drink it again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2013
at 07:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught at Tenma. A Red IPA brewed with Bravo hops. Great English malt nose, caramel, bread, nice earthy hops. Not super fragrant, rather subdued and classy. The Bravo hops also quite English seeming, earthy and subdued. Great malt flavors, rich and layered, and great balance. Earthy hops provide also strong bitterness. Great stuff.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2013
at 16:56
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Yamaoka. Cloudy gold, slightly pastel, huge airy head. Crazy nose: citrus, yogurt, grass, dust. Sweet, fruity, funky flavor, with lemon, honey, yogurt, dust. Spicy, yeast, Belgian like. Dry finish. Saison-like, funky barnyard. Very fruity, light acidity. Dry finish with sweet fruity mid-palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2013
at 02:25
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Small coarseish offwhite head. Clear deep brown, almost black, body. Earthy fruity aroma with alcoholic roasty caramel notes. A bit musty. Later more caramel, soy sauce and toffee aromas come forward, with less mustiness and alcohol. Sweet-dryish roasty cocos taste with caramel, alcohol, and soy sauce notes. Full body. Hot mouthfeel, but smooth and almost flat. Dry-sweet cocos and caramel aftertaste with roasty chocolate and alcohol notes. Lingering licorice, toffee, and molasses notes. Lovely! Sharp, but harmonic and well integrated. (0.33l bottle bought at brewery. 2010 vintage.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2012
at 06:13