Kiuchi Brewery - Hitachino Nest
Microbrewery
in
Naka,
Ibaraki,
Japan 🇯🇵
Associated with 4 Venues
Established in 1996
Contact
Description
Kiuchi Brewery (木内酒造) is a brewery in Naka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 1823 by village headman Kiuchi Gihei as a sake and shochu producer.
Craft beer production began in 1996 after a change in Japanese law governing micro brewing. A number of Kiuchi's products seek to combine European beer-making technology with traditional Japanese brewing techniques; for example, its XH Hitachino Nest Beer is matured in shochu casks.
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
350ml bottle from RusBeerShop in Moscow. Pours almost clear gold with a small white head. Aroma is herbal, woody, grass, pale malt. Taste is dry, malt, herbal, wood. Medium bitter finish. Light to medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
from
RusBeerShop (2025 -)
on 23 May 2025
at 19:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can @ home. Clear golden body under a moderate sized off-white head. Aroma has malt, citric fruits, oranges and tangerine. Taste is smooth, soft malt, citric fruit, bitter orange zest and some bitter hops. Balanced body with a smooth and slightly sharp fruity bitter aftertaste. Nice and slightly unusually IPA in the classic direction.
Tried
on 21 May 2025
at 16:39
7/10
Canned from Shōto DC - amber gold pour, lots of white head, fruity and hoppy - really good
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 01:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Poured a clouded orange brown from bottles. Salty finish, some sticky plum and sour heavy. Pretty interesting
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:42
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Yellow orange pour into hitachino glass. A weird sugary maltiness combined with hints of orange. Some hop finish. Not my favorite hitachino.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 01:27
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled. Poured burgundish orange. Decent head. Malt fruit and rum raisiny aromatics, similar taste. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled as commemorative ale 2014. Orangey brown pour, hops, orange peel, spice and some rye notes. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:09
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft from the Diamond. Pours gold. Nice fresh floral/plant aromatics. Some sitrus. Can tsste the sorach. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2025
at 01:02
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught from Marshall Stack. Pours a nice orange with mild head. Cedar aroma, some citrus, pretty mildly hopped. Well done if not typically IPA ish
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 00:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5
12oz bottle. Well it says German style but this was pure hitachino, tasted like a slightly darker version of the white ale. Poured fizzy and very clear for a hefe, a lot more of that lemony zip you get from the white ale. Clean finish. If they just called this a witte I’d be happier with it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:53