Hitachino Nest Real Ginger Ale

Brewed by Kiuchi Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Ibaraki, Japan

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   add pic

Bottle 330ml.

Clear medium amber colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to light heavy ginger, cinnamon notes. Flavour is light heavy sweet and light bitter with a long duration, sweet ginger, peppery, caramel, spicy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120330]

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of saxo. Pours a cloudy opaque amber with a beige head. Medium body, very sweet toffee notes, subtle roast and then quite some ginger. Subtle bitterness. 300312

33 cL bottle. Pours hazy brown with a small tan head. Aroma is toasted malty and light caramelish. Ginger, fruity and dry caramelish. Bitter, light ginger bite and mild citrusy. Toasted malty. Bitter and light spiced finish.

Bottled@SBWF2011. Hazy amber colour with a small wite head. Aroma is quite much sweet malts with quite strong ginger kicking in along with some other spices as well. Flavour is really big on the ginger, only letting some other slight spicyness and mild hoppyness through. Yet quite balanced and pleasant.

Name: Real Ginger Ale
Date: 05/10/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: hazy dark amber, fine beige head, bits of drippy lace,
Aroma: big sweet ginger aroma enhanced by the sweet crystal malt to turn it into crystalized ginger candy,
Flavor: big sweet crystal and caramel malt flavor, lots of ginger character but within balance of the malt, nice peppery spicyness from or in addition to the ginger, light balancing bitterness

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Cloudy dark amber colour. Spicy, gingery aroma with a malt background that blends caramel and molasses in seamlessly like a liquid gingerbread cookie. Massive ginger taste, quite a bit of spice and accompanying astringency. Did I ever mention that spiced beers are a bitch to brew well? Overly gingery, also a bit yeasty, which muddies things up too much. It’s like - ok, there’s a strong ginger stamp on this beer but why? What is this going to do for me? Ardunno.

(12oz bottle) Pours a cloud orange body with a small off-white head. Aroma of ginger, horseblanket, citrus, and florals. Flavor of ginger, orange, caramel, brett, and florals.

Bottle. Pours an amber color with a small longlasting off-white head. Has a fruity strong ginger aroma with some hints of citrus. Sweetish fruity spicy ginger flavor. Has a sweetish fruity spicy ginger finish.

(33cl bottle) Enormous off-white head atop lightly hazed deep amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, ginger, caramel, light herbal. Taste is medium sweet, ginger, herbal, caramel/cookie, some orange. Light-medium body, some effervescence, no sign of the significant alcohol.

Bottle, at Patricks. It’s an unclear, orange-golden beer with an off-white head. Ginger and generic spicyness in the aroma, malts in the back, but quite evident. The flavor is malty sweet and with a good dash of caramel, still it’s the ginger that runs the show. Some bitterness. Full body. The finish is sweet and spiced. A wonderful ginger beer, even though I think the ginger has to much to say here. 100213