Chateau Kamiya (Ushiku Beer)
Microbrewery
in
Ushiku,
Ibaraki,
Japan 🇯🇵
Associated Venue: Chateau Kamiya
- Out of business
Closed in 2018
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at the brewery. Blonde, slightly cloudy with white, creamy head. Aroma sweet and fruity. Maybe bit of honey. Orange and slight tropical fruit element. Taste fruity, bit of bitterness, lemon citrus. Bit of honey again and something slightly herbal. Best golden ale I have had in a whole. Just enough carbonation to make it interesting in the mouth but not fizzy. Nice and rounded.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at the Brewery. Orange blond colour, small off-white head. Aroma is wheat, bananas, bit of white pepper and some creamy sweetness. Taste is not as full-on as some weizens, but still has banana sweetness, more creaminess than in the aroma, just a touch of bitterness, and bready malt. Small prickle in mouth. Very nice solid weizen.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at the brewery. Pale blond with white small head. Aroma wheat, bit citrus, bitter lemony hops. Taste nice and bitter. Lots of lemon. Some wheat there after bitterness fades. Very refreshing and crisp. Good starter. Like a Japanese/German XX bitter. Rerate: 20/9/13 this year it is really grapefruity. Taste upped by 1 point.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at the brewery. Light amber colour, small off-white head. Total rebate from last time as it is so different. Aroma is caramel, malty, light hoppiness. Taste is good, pretty sweet, lots of malt, something interesting, maybe floral. Pretty good I think.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at the brewery. Cloudy amber colour, small golden head. Aroma is banana and citrus maybe a touch yeasty. Quite fruity. Can't quite get the peach though. Taste is pretty nice. Like a hoppy weizen. Lots of banana but with bitter citrus too. Ice cream too. Some maltiness too, quite cakey. Further down, tastes more Belgian. Getting the yeast more, less banana. Quite spritzy. Quite sweet. Very nice and tastes boozier than the 5%.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at the brewery. Pale blond, very clear, big white head. Aroma grassy hops, some wheaty maltiness. Smells very fresh, maybe even a touch fruity. Taste is crisp and dry. Nice amount of wheat, satisfying bitter finish. Nice bit of hops. Very refreshing and thirst quenching. Nice. Liked it more than I expected!
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at the brewery. Pale blond, slightly cloudy, beige creamy head. Aroma flour, grainy. Taste similar, quite dry and crisp. Biscuit malty with touch of sweetness in there. Not bad for a style I am not wild about. Perfectly nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at the brewery. Apparently the first time they have tried this and the aim was something easy to drink in an American style. Cloudy pale blond. Small white head. Aroma grain, wheat and lemon. Bit of Flour. Smells like a kernel beer. Citra hops maybe? Taste pleasantly lemony, citrus hops, wheat background. Very drinkable and surprisingly really nice. Biscuity and bit of lime in there too maybe. Very nice. Went back for another one.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at the brewery, this was an aged 2011 version. Amber colour, slightly cloudy. Fluffy, bubbly, golden yellow head. Aroma is booze, fruity, yeasty. Taste very nice. Can smell the alcohol. Woody, bit of calvados, brandy. Thick honey sweetness. Apples, apricot. Very nice. Full bodied but smooth. Ap 3 ar 8 t 9 p 34 o 1516
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at the brewery. Dark brown small golden head. Aroma is dark choc, roasty. Taste is creamy vanilla, chocolate, nice bitterness. Smooth. Hangover still giving me a few problems.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:53