Sekinoichi Shuzo / Iwate Kura Beer
Microbrewery
in Ichinoseki,
Iwate,
Japan 🇯🇵
Associated Venue: Iwate Kura Restaurant
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Hasegawa. Dark red/brown colour with big creamy and bubbly beige head. Aroma is lots of hops, resinous, hint of cat pee, brown bread malt. Taste is nice, not as bitter as I was expecting, lots of malt. Spicy prickle on the tongue, long lasting bitterness at the end. Not as hoppy as some red IPAs and all the better for it. Much more malt character. Pretty nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at Ushi Tora. Pale blond, bit cloudy. Taste is lightly fruity, lemon, floury. Quite crisp and grainy. Bit weak maybe. Little bit spicy. Aroma is similarly weak not much there. Grainy and bit yeasty, creamy too. Strange. Nice enough, but bit boring.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at iBrew. Dark brown colour. Small golden head. Aroma is roasty chocolate, bit of ovaltine. Taste is good. Roasty, dark chocolate, bit of vanilla creaminess, cocoa. Slight bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at iBrew. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is hoppy, slightly fruity, nice maltiness. Taste is fruity, nice hoppy bitterness. Finish is more grainy. Pretty nice. Easy to drink.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Vivo. Pale blond colour, small white head. Aroma is lightly funky, quite Belgian, yeasty, bit of grain, bit of cream. Taste is pretty good, slight sourness, grainy, creamy again, bit of ice cream. Very easy drinking. Pretty nice. Soft in the mouth.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Pours slightly muddy amber golden color. Yuzu overwhelms this beer from begginning to end. Base pale ale isn't that great to boot. Not horrible, but borderline horrible.
Pretty tasty, light coffee notes, something new in the back which I guess is the oyster, also sweet toffee and cream. #wheelofstyles
DSG (25968) reviewed Caramel Ale from Sekinoichi Shuzo / Iwate Kura Beer 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Max's place. Thanks Stas. Hazy amber. Caramel, kvass, cookie, sweet, sugary, cardboard, oxidation.
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