Hatsujozo
Baird Brewing Company / Fishmarket Taproom
- From:
- Baird Brewing Company / Fishmarket Taproom
- Japan
- Style:
- India Pale Lager (IPL)
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 0.54%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 17, 2024
- Added:
- May 30, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
330ml bottle, an India Pale Lager, brewed with an all-German hop bill.
This beer pours a rather hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat soapy off-white head, which leaves some very sudsy soap scum lace around the glass as it genially dissipates.
It smells of sharp, yet aged lemon citrus flesh, grainy, bready pale malt, earthy, kind of funky yeast, and leafy, weedy, and grassy hops. The taste is bready, doughy pale malt, sour lemon drops, still musty and edgy yeast, and the same perky Teutonic hop bitterness from the nose - all grassy, earthy, and green, meine Freunde!
The carbonation is quite active in its tightly held, and occasionally fizzy frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and a bit too testy from both yeast and hop alike to be deemed all that smooth. It finishes on a strong drying kick, the malt falling aside in the face of the plundering lemon, noble hops, and ignoble yeast.
Another lost in translation brew, that actually tastes pretty good, but the aim of the brewery just seems off. I guess you can have cloudy lagers, but that doesn't help perceptions here, and the 'India Pale' component being provided by German (as opposed to English or American) hops creates yet another level of detachment. Par for the course in my experience - good, but not what you'd expect.
May 31, 2015This beer pours a rather hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat soapy off-white head, which leaves some very sudsy soap scum lace around the glass as it genially dissipates.
It smells of sharp, yet aged lemon citrus flesh, grainy, bready pale malt, earthy, kind of funky yeast, and leafy, weedy, and grassy hops. The taste is bready, doughy pale malt, sour lemon drops, still musty and edgy yeast, and the same perky Teutonic hop bitterness from the nose - all grassy, earthy, and green, meine Freunde!
The carbonation is quite active in its tightly held, and occasionally fizzy frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and a bit too testy from both yeast and hop alike to be deemed all that smooth. It finishes on a strong drying kick, the malt falling aside in the face of the plundering lemon, noble hops, and ignoble yeast.
Another lost in translation brew, that actually tastes pretty good, but the aim of the brewery just seems off. I guess you can have cloudy lagers, but that doesn't help perceptions here, and the 'India Pale' component being provided by German (as opposed to English or American) hops creates yet another level of detachment. Par for the course in my experience - good, but not what you'd expect.
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