Konbu Draft
Abashiri, K.K.
- From:
- Abashiri, K.K.
- Japan
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.87 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 11, 2004
- Added:
- Mar 11, 2004
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by donnebaby from North Carolina
3.87/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.87/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Purchased up at the brewpup in Abashiri, this beer includes on its label "Ohotsk no megumi" AKA "Ohotsk goddess"...which bespeaks of great fondness for the northern sea. This beer also utilizes water from deep down in the Ohotsk Sea.
Ingredients are: Kelp, malt, barley, and EKISU hops
This is a good looking gold beer, with nice white sea foam. It looks crystal clear except for the sediment floating around, which I'm going to assume is konbu, AKA kelp, rather than fish poo-poo from those Ohotsk waters, or the brewery fishtank.
The smell is mysterious! I thought first rotting plums, or muscat grapes--and settled on the muscat grapes. It reminds of a Japanese muscat grape GUMI. It also smells, I must add, much like dried kelp tastes, which makes sense.
The taste reflects the smell closely, which we can call juicy muscat grapes--if we choose to ignore the fact that it also tastes like kelp. I love seaweed, but kelp is actually not my choice of the lot. In any case, the sweet and sour kelp taste puckers out the mouth in a fine tanginess, which transitions to some hop bitterness. Really, not bad all.
The taste that returns when burping is also the taste of kelp, which is my biggest complaint on the beer. Nobody needs that.
This is the second kelp-based beer I've had this week (the other being the Kelpie Seaweed Ale, by Heather Ales). If you're looking for a beer that tastes like kelp, this is it for you. If not, go for the Kelpie, which doesn't.
On the other hand, it's quite tasty, and drinkable. The last gulp also gives an extra-special wallop of tangy kelp, which is something to look forward to.
Mar 11, 2004Ingredients are: Kelp, malt, barley, and EKISU hops
This is a good looking gold beer, with nice white sea foam. It looks crystal clear except for the sediment floating around, which I'm going to assume is konbu, AKA kelp, rather than fish poo-poo from those Ohotsk waters, or the brewery fishtank.
The smell is mysterious! I thought first rotting plums, or muscat grapes--and settled on the muscat grapes. It reminds of a Japanese muscat grape GUMI. It also smells, I must add, much like dried kelp tastes, which makes sense.
The taste reflects the smell closely, which we can call juicy muscat grapes--if we choose to ignore the fact that it also tastes like kelp. I love seaweed, but kelp is actually not my choice of the lot. In any case, the sweet and sour kelp taste puckers out the mouth in a fine tanginess, which transitions to some hop bitterness. Really, not bad all.
The taste that returns when burping is also the taste of kelp, which is my biggest complaint on the beer. Nobody needs that.
This is the second kelp-based beer I've had this week (the other being the Kelpie Seaweed Ale, by Heather Ales). If you're looking for a beer that tastes like kelp, this is it for you. If not, go for the Kelpie, which doesn't.
On the other hand, it's quite tasty, and drinkable. The last gulp also gives an extra-special wallop of tangy kelp, which is something to look forward to.
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