Minamishinshu IPA

Brewed by Minamishinshu Beer Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Komagane, Japan

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Draught at Q-Brick. Nice citrus hop aroma with decent malts, some fruit, a touch of caramel. Cloudy medium amber-orange with lace. Stronger caramel in the flavor with nice earthy, citrus hops, and a crisp, peppery finish. Very nice, non-radical, tasty IPA. Good bitterness.

Small offwhite head. Hazy brassy body. Fruity Earl Grey tea aroma with perfumy lavender notes. Dry-sweet tropical fruity floral taste with oranges and lavender notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, mealy mouthfeel. Dryish floral perfumy oranges aftertaste with Earl Grey tea and wine grape notes. Very nice! Highly drinkable, full of flavour, and complex. (0.25l draft at Craft Beer Keg, Nagoya.)

Slight citrus aroma, fizzy head, nice light orange-amber colour. Taste also carries slight citrus notes - tangerine, orange peel. Mouthfull is thin and watery and the finish didn’t pan out for me...displaying unbalanced biterness with a slight sourness. Doesn’t do much for me...but nice to have tried at least once.

Amber golden color, grapefruit, oranges, malty buscuity backbone. A touch sweet, but fairly balanced. Hops are not overly aggressive and the English people I was drinking with commented it was like a pint back home. Very little bitterness at the end. Underwhelming for what I was expecting, still it has balance and it is a fairly nice beer.