Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Server Land. Light, crisp, floury, wheaty. Light bitterness, light sweetness. Good stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at CBM jimbocho. Quite dark. Nice malty sweetness. Light fruitiness. Sweet caramel. Good stuff, bit uninspiring, but nice. Little bit cheesy so extra marks.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at iBrew. Caramel, bit darker than you'd expect, smells belgian yeasty, alright. Bit fruity, light tropical. Caramel. Alright
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Craft Beer Market Toranomon. Dark amber colour, small thin golden head. Aroma is fruity, lots of booze, brandy, Danish pastry, brown bread, marzipan.Taste is really cakey, fruit, booze again, quite unusual, some sweetness hidden in there. Doesn't feel so strong. Full body, but quite easy to drink. Very unusual, but quite nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Amber coloured, not much head. Aroma is grapefruit and tropical fruit. Taste not so much, bit milky, slight bitterness. Rerate at Keyaki. Nice, wheaty, good bitterness. Lemon, easy drinking. Good malty spikiness. Nice stuff. Has it changed or have I?
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is light grassy hops some cereal malts and a little spice. Taste is more of the light hops sweet malts and a little spice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Osaka-jo Craft Beer Holiday 2018. Cloudy orange, thick head. Very estery, fruity nose, orange, banana, light smoke. Flavor also only lightly smoky, but lovely fruity esters and wheat. On the sweet side.
laiti (11645) reviewed Kaigun-san no Bakushu Barley Wine from Kure Beer 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33 cl bottle @ olio. Bottled 19.1.2018, BBE 19.5.2019
Aroma has stuffy malty tones and vanilla. Also sweet berry juice tones. Flavour has malty tones, some sweet berries. Finishes with some tartness, sweet malt and grapefruit. Too acidic for my taste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at Molto Beer Stand. Cloudy orange-gold with a tall head. Fruity nose, estery but more orange and cherry than banana, a bit sugary. Quite sweet indeed and very fruity, estery, citrus and stone fruits. Nice enough, but too sweet for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Takumiya. Hazy orange-golden with a big, tight head that quickly fell to lace. Lovely citrus fruit nose (Cascade hops), lightly tropical, peaches, thought there was more than Cascade in there. Biscuity, helles-like soft malt. Great biscuit/crackery malt character, very German feeling except for the hops, nice fruit. Full body, perfect for winter. The hops are lovely and not overdone as most American brewers would do. Not an IPL, just a hoppy helles. Excellent.