Tap at Takumi. Glowing, cloudy, rather strange orange-red color. Looks cool though. Big fruit nose, not juicy, warm peaches, oranges. Crisp and fruity wheat bread, pommigranite, some cherry, pear. Good.

Tap @ CBM Toranomon, New England vs West Coast event. Nice orange pour, some white foam but moderate carbonation. Nose is grainy and some light fruity tartness there. Not exactly what I expected. Taste is even more of a letdown, kind of just sourish grainy body, light bitterness and feels like watered down British IPA. You get malts and hops but only half of them.

Tap @ Mikkeller Tokyo. Pours hazy light orange, some white foam on top. Nice fresh hop aroma - with quite a lot of malt character in the nose. Maybe I’m wrong, but getting also some wheat here. Taste has quite nice citric bitterness and body is actually somewhat sturdier compared with usual session IPA’s, this one has 5.2%, so its not too light in abv either. This haze does not really mean NE character though, too malty beer for that. Actually was hoping for a bit smoother palate, this one is OK but it feels a bit heavy and bready malts are not entirely balanced with hops. Still a great summer gulper.

Nice creamy orange pour. Orange’i nose, hops and sweet apples and some mango. Taste is smooth, fruity, cantaloupe orange. Strong sweet bitterness, dry bitter hoppy linger. Good stuff, something between barleywine and double IPA.

Dark brown, bit of foam. Aroma is soft, toasty some chocolate. Getting a bit nail polish in there as well. Taste is actually not that strong, mainly nail polish. Some chocolate maybe, booze but we’ll something not right about it.

Tap at Mikkeller Tokyo. Pours nice amber, quite clear and not very carbonated, some hint of white foam still Nose has some berries, bit of horse blanket and some funk going on. Fermenting apple juice there as well. Taste has nice brett going on, funky and quite light, enjoyable. Ultimate session beer for me (at 6%abv!), glad I took a larger glass of it. Finish dry, some bitter brett coating my mouth, berries. Very satisfying.

From the brewery, released in October/November 2016 so with a bit more than a year on it. A rich ruddy orange brown color with a big malty sweet aroma and virtually no head. Looks kind of milky NE IPA like. The aroma is bourbon malt and oranges while the flavor is smooth sweet biscuit, oranges and bourbon. Pretty damn good though the body is definitely a bit on the light side. If the look/body was improved this could be a great beer.

8 3 7 3 16 Bottle, shared at July THT, in front of Kwartje. From an ip-trade in Tokio with TimE. Murky brown color. Rocky off-white to beige head. Aroma’s: sweetish, fruity, wood. Retronasal it’s sweetish, alcohol, fruity, wood, light perfumey (from the strawberries I assume). Flavor is light heavy sweet, fruity. Strong alcohol feel. Full bodied. Finishes with fruit, fruity sourness and sweetness. Rather sweet , but quite nice.

THT July, outside of Kwartje. Murky brownish amber with offwhite head. Barley malts, sweet resin, strawberry jam, rice cookwater, caramel, bourbon, vanilla. Madden sweet, light almond nutty bitter. Medium body and low carbonation.