5.4/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Rated in 2009. Banana aroma. Milk coffee look, mostly milk. Very green. Light bodied. Bananabread retronasal. Do not enter
Tried
on 24 Oct 2012
at 02:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Yamaoka. Bright shiny yellow, pale, with lace. big lemon nose, acidic and nice, with a bit of malt and hop beneath, but mostly nice lemonade. Flavor is sweet lemonade at first, then tangy, then some malt flavors enter, and finally the finish is bitter hops and tangy citrus. It’s a real radler, with nice lemon character. Overall, I don’t generally drink the stuff, but it’s decent. Very crisp and refreshing too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2012
at 01:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
dark brown color. Good roastiness. Light bodied rounded. Very good rendition of the style. Very dry and lots of roastiness, which you don’t see so often in Japanese craft beer. Highly drinkable. Excellent session beer.
Tried
on 07 May 2012
at 05:21
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught at Eni-bru. Cloudy orange-bronze color, interesting appearance. Aroma of wheat, banana, peat. Weird, but interesting. Flavor of big peat, esters, peach, wheat. Big first impact is almost completely negative, but it gets softer and a bit of sweetness comes out. Has a rather raunchy finish of bitter grains. Strange and barely likeable. I don’t really see where they are going with this series. They should work with Bamberg rauchmalz instead.
Tried
on 14 Feb 2012
at 16:06
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle from the brewery. Soft, malty nose. Grains, cereal, slight grassy hops. Deep gold with a huge head. Tasty malt flavor, crackers, bread, medium sweetness, light grass and bitterness. A proper helles for sure, with luscious malts. Mild and malty. Full, smooth palate. Really quite tasty. Great, soft mouthfeel. Here, Baeren is in their territory.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2011
at 02:08
6.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle sent from the brewery. Malty, rich caramel nose. Very chewy with some chocolate and a bit or dried fruit. Orange-red color with lace, a bit cloudy. Rich caramel malt flavor, chewy fudge almost, light fruit, with a bit of earthiness and medium bitterness in the finish. Decent, nice malt and hop bitterness, but a bit one-dimensional and not all that interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Oct 2011
at 02:31
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught at Q-Brick. Huge peat aroma with some caramel. Amber-orange color with lace. Flavors of peat, earthy, Chinese medicine, caramel, and alcohol. Very unpleasant at first, though I kind of got used to it. Still, it didn’t really work. Like a shot of Laphraigh dropped into a bitter.
Tried
on 24 Oct 2011
at 19:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
33 cl bottle vintage 2011, bottled 28.01.11
Aroma is somewhat porter‐like with dark chocolate, coffee and roasted malt. Dryish flavour has semi‐dark milk chocolate and coffee. Very good, one of the best japanese beers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2011
at 11:16
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shipped from the brewery. Malty aroma, grains and cereals, with citrus, spice, grass, wheat, a touch of caramel. Malt definitely leads, nice and intersting. Deep golden, heading towards, orange, somewhat pastel, with a medium head that quickly goes to lace. Sweet and malty flavor, some lemon, crass, lots of caramel, well, for a saison! Neither dry not very bitter, so overall it’s much more like a rather typical blonde. Well, there is a nice bitterness kicking in late in the finish. A bit too sweet and malty, and thus not all that saison-like, but pretty nice. Malt character is really quite German.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2011
at 03:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@Chriso "Donkey Dork Lord" pre-gbbf shindig. Slightly hazy goldeny orange colour with a mediumsized fluffy head that leaves some lace. Aroma is wheat, some spices, banana, yeast and quite malty as well. Flavour is wheat, citrus, some yeast and mild fruityness as wel. Also some mild alcohol to be found
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2011
at 22:42