Hop Kaoru
Land Beer
- From:
- Land Beer
- Japan
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.5 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 09, 2010
- Added:
- Oct 09, 2010
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by snogglethorpe from Japan
2.5/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.5/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
The name of this beer is appealing -- "Hop Fragrance Beer" -- but sadly it doesn't live up to it's name. It neither seems to smell nor taste particularly of hops (of any sort).
The appearance is just average -- greenish gold, with little head (at least it's not pale straw colored!).
Despite the name, the smell is very non-distinct: it smells like "average beer." The taste is no more appealing, basically kind of blah, with a weird vegetal character (like the water you get after boiling broccoli), a slight bitterness, but no obvious hop character, or even much character of any sort. I don't think it should be a matter of freshness -- this is a Japanese beer, and I bought it in Japan from a store with pretty high throughput, which I'm pretty sure hasn't had it for more than a few weeks.
It's not actively horrible, but it's just not very appealing to drink.
Kinshachi is an odd brewery; they have some hits -- really nice and quirky beers like their Red Miso Lager -- but sadly quite a few misses as well... of which this seems to be one.
Oct 09, 2010The appearance is just average -- greenish gold, with little head (at least it's not pale straw colored!).
Despite the name, the smell is very non-distinct: it smells like "average beer." The taste is no more appealing, basically kind of blah, with a weird vegetal character (like the water you get after boiling broccoli), a slight bitterness, but no obvious hop character, or even much character of any sort. I don't think it should be a matter of freshness -- this is a Japanese beer, and I bought it in Japan from a store with pretty high throughput, which I'm pretty sure hasn't had it for more than a few weeks.
It's not actively horrible, but it's just not very appealing to drink.
Kinshachi is an odd brewery; they have some hits -- really nice and quirky beers like their Red Miso Lager -- but sadly quite a few misses as well... of which this seems to be one.
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