Japanese Fruit Tea Infused Rice Lager
Kooinda Boutique Brewery

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Kooinda Boutique Brewery
 
Australia
Style:
Japanese Rice Lager
ABV:
4.5%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.18 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Jul 04, 2014
Added:
Jul 04, 2014
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Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia

3.18/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Pours a dirty colour, gold with a slight green tinge. Cream head, large bubbles that doesn't stick around. Interesting but a bit listless.

Lots of cereal grain on the aroma. Touch of caramel with slight pear-tinged fruit character. Definitely rice notes with an intriguing subtle tang.

Taste is grainy as well, with cereal notes. Touch of sourdough heading towards the mid-palate where it gets quite inevitably yeasty. Very subtle green tea tang towards the end, but not enough. Just tastes a bit yeasty and bland.

Tingly carbonation shows through a quite thin body. Pretty much what I expected but it's still lacklustre.

Interesting idea, not wonderfully executed. Frankly though I could see the Alstrom brothers going crazy over a beer like this.
Jul 04, 2014