Kibidote
in Okayama-shi,
Okayama,
Japan 🇯🇵
Associated Venue: Kibidote Shita Bakushu Fudan Nomiba
Kyotolefty (14846) reviewed Onzaki from Kibidote 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Draught at the brewpub. Fruity, slightly hoppy aroma. Slight yeast funk. Fruity, medium caramel with nice fruitiness. Nice idea, but needs a bit of work.
Kyotolefty (14846) reviewed Komugi no Bakushu from Kibidote 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught at the brewpub. Fruity aroma—cherry plus banana, maybe strawberry too. Slightly funky yeast. Yeast funk noticeable in flavor. Banana, strawberry. Interesting yet imperfect. Deep orange color, also interesting. A rather original and interesting flavor, but imperfectly made.
Kyotolefty (14846) reviewed Kaori Ale from Kibidote 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the Micro Brewers Festa in Hiroshima. The brewer calls this a Pale Ale, I thought it was closer to a golden ale. Sparking, light gold. Huge, herbal cascade hops give it a citrus, grapefruit aroma. Some pale malt in the nose as well. Light body, with big hop flavor and some butter and muted golden malts. Crisp, fruity and herbal. Very nice and refreshing.
Kyotolefty (14846) reviewed Enishi Bitter from Kibidote 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the 2008 Micro Brewers Festa in Hiroshima. A very malty, non-bitter English bitter. Closer to a brown ale in my mind, but: Dark amber to medium brown color, with a huge malt / caramel nose. No hops really in the nose. Again, malt-centered, caramel, flavor, sweet but refreshing. Very light bittering hops. The malt complexity won the day for me. For licensing purposes, these beers are categorized as "Happoshu," which means a good percentage of something other than barley malt. Don’t know if it is wheat or sugar or unmalted barley.
TimE (11149) reviewed Pale Ale from Kibidote 17 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
My 1000th beers is very appropriate. Few ratings and from Japan, though I want to make it anti-climatic. Off line I passed 1000 beers in 2004, so this isn’t such a milestone. I tend to rate beers with low ratings, which is often the case in Japan. This beer was at a tasting a few weeks ago with some friends. I don’t even have my proper notes for the beer, but I can tell you the British were not offended. N. Americans were silent until the next day and until they let loose about how crap this was. Brought by a Kiwi from a garage cum brewpub in Okayama City while he was there for a wedding. His girlfriend’s friend found him this unknown-to-the-beer-world-in-Tokyo place. Certainly the brewery sounds more interesting and unique than the beer. A cloudy amber color. If I remember correctly there was lots of chalk, as you get in a pale ale, or not. Perhaps a suggestion of fruitiness from the hops, but that was soon forgotten with all the other malt substitute components that were getting in its way. The taste? Don’t remember exactly, but remember more chalk, some caramel and what is that thing you put in pale ales... hops? No, that’s not it. I can’t remember what the other flavor was, but indistinguishable. Finish was massively bitter and grapefruits just exploded all over the places, with huge residual bitterness stinging my tongue for like 23 minutes.. Awesome, way better than any West Coast IPA I have ever had. Totally hardcore. Man this beer was so deceptive until the end and then it just made Ruination look like Tang with a splash of grapefruit juice. I swear, Seattle has never tasted anything so intense and off the chart. Portland only wishes it could have an ounce of this ending and San Fran would try to recreate the pale ale style just for a glimpse of this finish........well of course I am joking about the finish.
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Kyotolefty | 10 |
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TimE | 5 |
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