English IPA
Yokohama Beer
- From:
- Yokohama Beer
- Japan
- Style:
- English IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.38 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 02, 2011
- Added:
- Jul 02, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by snogglethorpe from Japan
4.38/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.38/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A deep, dark copper color, very murky, with a smallish, but very creamy head; this is a beautiful beer.
The smell is very strong, sweet, malty, caramel, fruity, with a very slight metallic/mineral tinge.
Upon drinking, the mouthfeel is the first thing that hits you -- quite thick, a little sticky; the carbonation is light, but just right to offset the thickness, and avoid any cloying feeling; the end result: very nice, goes down really well.
The taste is strong. Like the smell, the first impression is malty, caramell, a little burnt, sweet, with some fruitiness. This is quickly offset by a strong and appealing hop bitterness, very much English hops (certainly no citrus!), and then the malty/bitter/fruity flavors play off each other, finally resolving to a long-lived bitter hoppy aftertaste. There's less sense of mineral in the taste than in the smell (probably due simply to the strength of the primary flavors), but one can taste it, dancing around the edges of one's tongue.
This is a bold and delicious English IPA, I'd definitely get it again.
Jul 02, 2011The smell is very strong, sweet, malty, caramel, fruity, with a very slight metallic/mineral tinge.
Upon drinking, the mouthfeel is the first thing that hits you -- quite thick, a little sticky; the carbonation is light, but just right to offset the thickness, and avoid any cloying feeling; the end result: very nice, goes down really well.
The taste is strong. Like the smell, the first impression is malty, caramell, a little burnt, sweet, with some fruitiness. This is quickly offset by a strong and appealing hop bitterness, very much English hops (certainly no citrus!), and then the malty/bitter/fruity flavors play off each other, finally resolving to a long-lived bitter hoppy aftertaste. There's less sense of mineral in the taste than in the smell (probably due simply to the strength of the primary flavors), but one can taste it, dancing around the edges of one's tongue.
This is a bold and delicious English IPA, I'd definitely get it again.
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