Hitachino Nest XH

Brewed by Kiuchi Brewery
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Ibaraki, Japan

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Bottle. Pours a very dark copper/amber color with a frothy beige head. Aroma is lightly tart with notes of lemongrass, candy like sweetness, caramel malts, nutty notes, a kind of stinky sake aroma and funk. The flavor is also lightly tart with alot of candy like sweetness, along with lemongrass, subtle oak and woody notes, caramel, breadiness and barnyard like funk. The body is medium with a dry motuhfeel. Overall a quite unique beer, sake notes doesn’t really stand out other than subtle notes in the aroma, but good brew nonetheless.

0.33l bottle from BrewDog webshop. Pours a dark heavy clouded, almost murky, bronze body with a small bubbly and sidesticking caramel head. Aroma is sweet with some dark fruits, malts with some hints of dark caramel and perhaps even some blackberries and black currants. Not to much going on there, but nice enough. It’s average carbonated, has a thick and oily mouthfeeling and it’s quite full-bodied. Flavors are dark malts, some alcohol, burned sugar, perhaps even a bit of burned rubber, nice browned nutty-butter and it ends mild bitter and light sweet with some alcohol lingering in the aftertaste. Interesting enough!

Bottle. Hazy deep amber. Lasting, fizzy off-white head. Strong brett, wood aroma. Notes of fruit, sour cherries, barnyard, leather and a hint of band-aid. The flavor is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately bitter and lightly acidic. It finishes lightly sweet, lightly to moderately bitter and lightly to moderately acidic. Medium body, watery texture turning slightly syrupy in the finish and lively carbonation. Lacquer, barnyard tastes along with a tartness that turns to bitterness. All the aromas come through as tastes. At first, I thought the brett funkiness and wood was too dominant, but the more I drank the more the other flavors stepped up. Complex, interesting.

At a tasting, thanks Shahar, pours an hazy orange with a medium head, aroma of brett, good acids, honey, dried fruits, some woods and cherries, flavor of wood, cork, nuts, orange and grapefruit peel, medium bodied, round mouthfeel, Nice and Unique

Bottle at a tasting. Thanks beer_and_beyond. Gushing on opening. Hazy dark amber with a huge beige head. Aroma of brett, wood and fruits. Sweetish malty flavor with a bit of woody sourness, caramel, nuts, fruits and a bitter finish with a bit of hops and light alcohol notes. Medium-bodied. Not bad.

Flaske: Rødbrun øl med et stort hvidt skumhoved. Speciel duft af krydder i duften hvor den sødlige malt også er klar. Men det fungerer. Smagen er en tand for sød, men igen bakker det egentlig krydderiet fint op. Spændende og meget anderledes øl.

It poured a brown color with a tan head. The aroma was malty and bitter with a bubblegum scent. The taste was bitter orange peel and malt with some sours as well. Palate is gritty and chaulky with a dry swallow.

330 ml bottle. poured with gush and huge head, cloudy copper color. complex aroma with hints of wild yeast, oak and candied fruits. flavor matches the nose with dried fruits, herbal hops, wood and nuts. nice body and impressive finish.