Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Draft at Ushitora. Collaboration beer with Minoh. Hazy orange copper color with a small white head. Funky nose showing plum, peach, shiso and clove with some yogurt. Nice tartness on the palate with a rush of plum and peach that comes out. Finish is lightly sweet with a lingering tartness and a touch of salt. This is probably my favorite Ushitora beer at this point. Perfect summer beer and seems like they pushed this into Berliner Weisse territory. Hopefully this is sign of things to come. --- Beer merged from original tick of #033 / Minoh Yamamomo No Kaori on 06 Aug 2015 at 19:15 - Score: 8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft at Ushitora. Hazy straw with a tiny white head. Peach, lemon, and light tropical fruit on the nose with some bread. Taste is more of the same with some light graininess on the palate. Fruit really stands out with a hint of yogurt in there as well. Very refreshing finish with some light pepper. --- Beer merged from original tick of #023 Kaettekita Mahoroba Wheat on 06 Aug 2015 at 19:13 - Score: 7
willisread (9801) reviewed Dear Citra #030 from Ushi-Tora Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Ushitora. Pale straw color with a small white head. All citra on the nose with some light cracker. The taste really lives up to the nose with this one. Wonderful example of citra with just enough malt to keep it interesting. Nice bitter finish with some light pepper. Uetake knocked this one out of the park. --- Beer merged from original tick of Uetake #030 Dear Citra on 01 Aug 2015 at 15:50 - Score: 8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft at Ushitora. Hazy copper orange with a small head. Orange, tangerine, bready malt on the nose. Taste is more of the same with the citrus really standing out. Very well-balanced. Nice light bitter finish. Pretty conservative but well done. --- Beer merged from original tick of Uetake #027 Half Step Pale Ale (ver. 1) on 06 Aug 2015 at 18:58 - Score: 7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft at Ushitora. Hazy copper with a small off-white head. Nice, big grapefruit, pine resin danky nose with some caramel notes. Bitter and sweet on the palate with pretty solid balance. Caramel malt notes with some orange marmalade sweetness. Good bitter finish that lingers. Hides the alcohol very well. I’m not really a big fan of Imperial IPAs, but if you like the style this is really solid. --- Beer merged from original tick of #028 One Pint Mind Double IPA on 06 Aug 2015 at 19:13 - Score: 7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Ushitora Niagara Session IPA #31 IBU 61 ABV 3% On tap at Bungalow. Pouring a vet light cloudy gold it looks like lemonade. The nose is prickly fruity pine. Highly carbonated with a scratchy mouthfeel on a light body - soda like watery body. The taste is soda bread and lemon + piney hops. More like a hop soda water than a beer but it is refreshing and tastes alright. This session IPA cut the malt profile to the bone and wound up with something that’s too light bodied.
Kyotolefty (15977) reviewed Second Impact #034 from Ushi-Tora Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Bungalow. Bready, grassy nose, biscuit, wheat, grapefruit, lemon. Hazy, deep gold with lace. Nice biscuity malt flavor, not sweet, bready. Grass, grapefruit, but of mango. Easy drinking and tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Ushi-tora second impact #34 American Extra Pale Ale On tap at Bungalow during Gion Matsuri. 47 IBUs 4.9% A clear light gold, With a thin filmy white head. The nose is a yeasty woodsy (branch like) citrus. Medium bodied with an unmemorable mouthfeel. The taste is a woodsy fruitiness with a semi-dry lightly bitter finish. Alright.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap at Komachi. Amber-orange, hazy, tight low head. Nose of caramel malt, bread, oranges. Malty flavor, orange and peaches, bread. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Komachi. Pale gold, hazy, low fine head. Low malt nose, grassy, citrus, grapefruit. Light, clean, crisp, very drinkable, lightly malty. Nice low abv session beer.