I, Pa King
Noboribetsu Brewpub - Wakasaimo Honpo - Oni Densetsu in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, Japan 🇯🇵
Collab with: Y Market BrewingIPA - Imperial / Double Regular
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Score
7.77
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Gremlin. Nice and fruity, pineapple, tropical, juicy sweetness but with some big bitterness at the finish. Fairly full bodied but still fairly easy drinking. Good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Bungalow. Glowing golden orange, clear, with low lace. Nice hoppy nose, dry, crisp grass and citrus fruits, grapefruit mostly. Crisp hoppy flavor with restrained sweetness. A bit boozy but not at all syrupy. Very nice and convincing DIPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Golden, clear not much foam. Sweet tropical fruit nose, papaya, mango and passion fruit. Taste is superbly balanced, fruity and full of tropical flavours. Juicy and probably also hoppy although the bitterness is well hidden. Along with alcohol, dangerously high drinkability. Super fragrant and fresh, I really need to get a full pint of this. Probably one of the best beers in Japan today.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Tap at Watering Hole. A couple weeks later and by far the best double / Imperial IPA in Japan. Tons of pineapple and tropical juice notes with tangerine coming though. Drinks like water and again with almost no perceived alcohol or bitterness. A world class beer. Tap at Gremlin. Clear gold with no head. Huge haribo gummy bear nose that doesn’t stop. Backed up with nice dank notes with durian, papaya and pineapple; super tropical. Average carbonation with a nice clean mouthfeel. The tropical fruit and gummy bear flavors continue through til the finish. Hardly any perceived bitterness and basically feels like 4.5 percent session beer. A laser beam of a beer. --- Beer merged from original tick of I,Pa-KING on 19 Aug 2016 at 20:47 - Score: 8. Original review text: Y market and Oni Densetsu do it again. Gummy bear tropical hop bomb. No bitterness! Fantastic!