6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Dark red brown pour. Hoppy aroma. Overly grained taste. Nothing special.........
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:09
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can at home. Aroma is wheat, banana, soft fruits, spicy yeast, touch of citrus. Flavour is light sweet and bitter with a slight hint of tartness. Body is light. Simple but easy Hefe, pleasant.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Feb 2025
at 15:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at home. Aroma is earthy hops, malt, some caramel, citrus, orange, mild fruity, touch of toffee. Flavour is light sweet and moderate bitter. Body is medium. Nice and easy old school APA with tasty citrussy hops and a caramel malt backbone.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Feb 2025
at 15:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Old rating from 2002 - Pint at the brewpub, pours amber with a off white head. Aromas & tastes of citrus, apple, pine, caramel, earth & hops. Medium body. Moderate bitter finish
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Jan 2025
at 17:21
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Old rating from 2002 - Pint at the brewpub, pours light brown with a light beige head. Aromas & tastes of fruits, cherries, coffee, chocolate, caramel, nuts, toffee, earth & roasted malt. Medium body. Dry moderate bitter finish
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Jan 2025
at 17:19
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
22 oz bottle poured, pulled out of the back of the cellar. Definitely in there too long, but since this will certainly be my last beer rating from this now retired brewery, I'm going to leave notes here on it anyway. Thinner appearance, dark cola near black, this and loose foam head. Whiskey, cocoa, and a hint of berry on the nose. Whiskey notes really stand out from a distance. Taste has definitely started to sour with age. There is just no way this was like this fresh. Subtle cocoa, charred oak, and smooth whiskey notes here, but they are drowned by the sour character. Was probably much better in it's prime. This bottle deserved a better fate than I gave it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2024
at 03:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Glad to get a beer from a very new to japan brewery in my fukubukuro. Hale’s Ales Brewery Hazamania NEIPA 6.2% Love the Hulk Hogan tribute label,the aroma pithy grapefruit on a lightly hazy straw gold body. Fluffy foam that doesn’t linger with a fruity but pithy/woodsy aroma. Medium bodied and quite dry. The taste is bitter woodsy up front. Not really as tropical as the label claims but that could just be age I guess. Quite a nicely made brew either way and it tells me Hale’s Ales are most likely worth trying if you see them somewhere.
Tried
on 07 Jan 2021
at 06:33
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft @ Dungeness Bay Seafood, Sea-Tac Terminal S. Pours clear gold, nice hoppy piney fruity nose, continuing taste with a rather poky hop-forward character, fairly sweet with good grapefruit and pine leanings. Not bad.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Sep 2019
at 20:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at the brewpub. Pours gold with a white head. Aroma has orange and earthy notes.Med body. Flavor is dry/earthy/orange citrus. Some roasty malt support. Bitter. Good stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Sep 2019
at 02:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at the brewpub. Pours gold with a white head. Aroma of rye spice. Med body. Flavor is rye with mixed tropicals. It’s dry. It’s bitter. It has rye spice. Moderately hoppy.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Sep 2019
at 02:44