Taster at their Motomachi tap room. Hazy pastel yellow. Big, dank NZ hop nose, tropical fruit, weed, resins. Wheat flavor, crisp, dank hops, lingering sweetness. Best of the three.

Grey, rainy weather has me wanting a darker take on an IPA and luckily enough I’d picked one up in Kobe.

Open Air Little Monsters
Brown IPA 6%

Nice amber color with thick fluffy light beige foam and a piney white pepper aroma. Full bodied and quite smooth the taste is bitter pine, white pepper and then sweet maltiness.

It hit the spot.

Quite hoppy. Not totally for me to be honest. No hint of pils. But it’s good still.

Can at Luqua Kitchen, Osaka Station. Pours a hazy orange, pastel like. Nose is coconut and pineapple hops, orange juice and tropical fruit. Sweet fruity, juicy flavor, coconut, pineapple, Sabro hops I guess, more like a NE PA. Nicely hopped.

Open Air Remix APA 6% Strangely higher in ABV than a recent IPA I had from them. Anyways, Open Air is solidifying themselves as one of my favorite breweries in Kansai with solid beers and reasonable prices. This orange matte gold beer has a candyish stone fruit aroma. Medium bodied with tutti-frutti and sweet grapefruit rind. Solid drinkable brew.

Open Air Beach Nectar 6% Todays my last day of summer vacation so we hit the beach and I brought a summer hazy IPA that I picked up at the Motomachi Taproom. It says hazy IPA but the ingredients list includes lactose and vanilla. The aroma is herbal and tropical hops but not quite to the juicy level. The look is golden hazy with off-white foam. It’s medium bodied and has a pretty smooth mouthfeel. The taste is vanilla and coconut cream with sweet orange in the finish. I was expecting a juice bomb but this is quite sweet, almost a pastry/milkshake IPA. Can from the Motomachi Taproom