6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Yamaoka. Hazy golden color. Nose is juicy orange tropical fruits, creamy wheat and oats. Flavor is sweet and creamy, lots of wheaty biscuit, some diacetyl, tropical fruit, bitter finish. Needs work.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2024
at 13:27
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at BeerFes Osaka 2019. Something like a kolsch made with sake koji. Nise is just like a ginjo sake, fruity, grainy, rice. Pale gold with lace. Tart and grainy flavor, biscuit, spices. Interesting but overall a bit strange.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Jul 2019
at 06:57
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Furusato Nozei. Hazy orange amber with a high, fine head. Nose is caramel, toffee, butterscotch, pine, citrus hops. Sweet, butter caramel, orange and some pine. Old school, sweet and cloying, also very buttery. Bitter, slightly rough finish. Ok, but not as good as the other two, and a bit too late in the century for an IPA like this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2019
at 08:43
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Bottle from Kyoto Lefty. Tosa IPA 6% A matte brass/copper color which isn’t attractive as it looks almost full brown. The think light beige foam that is pillowy and lasts is nice though. The aroma has classic west coast ipa hops but also caramel butterscotch. The taste is ok but also adds an almost metallic iodine thing but has a nice bready caramel biscuit in the finish which I like. A touch odd in an IPA but nice. These guys have issues but there are also a few nice points. Get some things dialed in and sort out those odd metallic/iodine flavors and they’d be on track. At the moment this is just a touch over the drinkable line for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2019
at 14:56
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Furusato Nozei. Deep orange, hazy, low head. Nose is yuzu, bready malt, light caramel, bit burnt aspect. Flavor is rich yuzu and biscuit malt, light honey and caramel, apples, light vanilla, interesting and fun. Needs some fine tuning, but pretty decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2019
at 13:08
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Furusato Nozei. Cloudy gold, high head quickly to lace. Bit spice nose, sansho at first, citrus and coriander, wheat. Crisp, tart whar and citrus. Proper wit, sansho, orange, coriander. Crisp and light, the rice doing its share. Very well done for a new brewery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2019
at 12:52