Shōkyō Secchū
Kyoto Brewing Company
- From:
- Kyoto Brewing Company
- Japan
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 17, 2016
- Added:
- Oct 17, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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A bit of serendipity brought us together with Shonan Beer at the Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) 2014 in Denver, Colorado. Head brewer Takashi Tsutsui was attending alone and in need of a place to stay and we had an open couch at the house Kyoto Brewing Co. had rented out. While we had never really spent much time together before the trip, a week of sharing good beers and great laughs made us quick friends. We repeated the experience during the 2016 CBC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the serendipity continued when both parties happened to be looking to share a booth at the Keyaki Hiroba Beer Festival later that year.
The beer started out as an excuse to use the small amount of Australian and New Zealand hops that each brewery was able to acquire. We were having trouble figuring out what the best way to express the unique characteristics of these hops while at the same time blending the character of each brewery. A Session Belgian IPA seemed too Kyoto Brewing Co., while an India Pale Lager seemed too Shonan Beer. Then it hit us: why not brew two collaboration beers and serve them side by side at the shared Keyaki Hiroba Beer Festival booth? To further the collaborative spirit, we decided to brew the exact same recipe at each brewery, changing only the yeast.
Malt Bill:
Pilsner, Wheat, Oat
Hops:
Bittering - Nelson Sauvin
Flavour/Aroma - Nelson Sauvin, Galaxy
Yeast: US-05 American Ale
IBU: 23
Gas Volumes: 2.2
The beer started out as an excuse to use the small amount of Australian and New Zealand hops that each brewery was able to acquire. We were having trouble figuring out what the best way to express the unique characteristics of these hops while at the same time blending the character of each brewery. A Session Belgian IPA seemed too Kyoto Brewing Co., while an India Pale Lager seemed too Shonan Beer. Then it hit us: why not brew two collaboration beers and serve them side by side at the shared Keyaki Hiroba Beer Festival booth? To further the collaborative spirit, we decided to brew the exact same recipe at each brewery, changing only the yeast.
Malt Bill:
Pilsner, Wheat, Oat
Hops:
Bittering - Nelson Sauvin
Flavour/Aroma - Nelson Sauvin, Galaxy
Yeast: US-05 American Ale
IBU: 23
Gas Volumes: 2.2
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by amano_h from Oregon
3.79/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Collaboration beer with Shōnan Beer. So apparently Kyoto Brewing and Shōnan Beer brewed two different versions of the same beer with this collaboration; Shōnan brewed a solid India Pale Lager with the recipe (probably the standout of Ji-Beer Matsuri Kyoto 2016 for me) while Kyoto Brewing put out a hoppy Belgian-inspired IPA.
Grapefruit, orange and lemony-citrus is the initial impression on the nose. I don't know if this was dry-hopped, but the citrus is extremely persistent and stays with you until the bitter end (pun intended)
Juicy orange comprises the main palatal impression, with hint of peppers and earthy herbs; I'm grasping for straws here but there's also a hint of biscuit toward the end.
Medium-bodied with pleasant tongue-tickling carbonation Shōnan and Kyōto definitely need to collaborate more if this is the perceivable end product.
Oct 17, 2016Grapefruit, orange and lemony-citrus is the initial impression on the nose. I don't know if this was dry-hopped, but the citrus is extremely persistent and stays with you until the bitter end (pun intended)
Juicy orange comprises the main palatal impression, with hint of peppers and earthy herbs; I'm grasping for straws here but there's also a hint of biscuit toward the end.
Medium-bodied with pleasant tongue-tickling carbonation Shōnan and Kyōto definitely need to collaborate more if this is the perceivable end product.
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