Hitachino Nest Red Rice Ale

Brewed by Kiuchi Brewery
Style: Traditional Ale
Ibaraki, Japan

33 cL bottle. Pours hay orange with a creamy and off-white head. Yeasty, caramel and mild fruity aroma. Light liqourice/spice note to a creamy and caramelish base flavour with a light belgian yeast touch, quite nice if it wasn’t for a mild rubber-like note following before and slight into the finish. Either it is the red rice or this one has a mild infection too. Certainly drinkable though.

Not a fan of this beer at all. There is a lot of hype with Hitachino but I absolutely feel it’s nothing but hype. Their beers are unique but doesn’t hold up to much with regards to brightness, balance and complexity. It’s lacking fundamentals.

11.2oz. pours a golden reddish and a little hazy. aroma is tart and a bit of vinegar. mouthful is smooth and interesting. i little bitter finnish with some alcohol. not a favorite.

Poured a salmon pink color. Very weird beer, with a triaminic cough syrup flavor up front that was not as dominant as it warmed. Later, it was more on the finish, but it just was a bit strange for me.

Pinkish red color, with a bitter sakeish taste. The aftertaste is almost plastic or rubbery, if that makes sense. Its interesting, but not really to my taste

Had a small sample of this at Gingerman’s in SoNo, CT. Poured reddish. Nose and taste is almost identical to olives, nothing I picked up in a beer before.

720mL bottle, no date. Mine isn’t pink at all. Clear light orange with a one finger bone white head, faded to a thick ring. Aroma was actually quite sulfurous--it smells like someone lit a 4th of July smoke bomb in my glass. There is also a bit of sweet rice and skunk. Flavor is pretty tangy with the smoke bombs sticking around. Once they left, it turned fairly sweet until the dry finish. A crazy rollercoaster of flavors, oh my ! Moderate to high carbonation with a light to medium body. On paper (or the screen), this doesn’t seem very good, but actually, I kinda liked it. I think I’ll take a trip back to John’s to take the old-ass 12oz bottles to compare to this one, that I think came in within the last week or two. Ha ha ha! the 1337 rating!

bottled, lacking much aroma, pours a nice "grapefruit" red with no head at all, with the color and carbonation looks like a soda, faily clam on the palate nothing heavy, very faint berry flavor noted actually reminds me of red bean paste, clean palate with just a mild lingering of hop bittering, nothing bad...but nothing exciting...pretty even.