Masaji Ichiro Chichibu Barrel Aged W-IBA
Tamamura-Honten (Shiga Kogen Beer) in Shimotakai, Nagano, Japan 🇯🇵
Strong Ale Special|
Score
7.43
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Craftheads event. Nice rich body, dark fruit. Prefer the bourbon version but that's my whisky preference i guess. This one is a little more subdued. Still barrel taste but mellowed. Whisky kick at the end. Sweet.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bouteille 33cl, merci bcp à Phil aka KansaiBeerLvers. Brune foncée, crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme au bouquet malté et grillé, pointe de barrique avec des effluves de whisky, petit rétro vanillé. Arôme est malté avec une sensation plaisante de douceur. Caramel, sucre brun voire candi. Barrique reste légère sur la fin. Pointe de grillé - café, chaleur perce sur la fin avec un léger rajout chocolaté noir, alcool se fait bien présent. Fini est encore centré sur le doux avec un boisé vanillé agréable et ce côté whisky qui perdure. Très plaisante un cran en dessous de la version Bourbon, et un profil complexe qui oscille plus vers un style de barley wine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Fall Keyaki 2015. Deep brown with a small tan head. Big maple aromas with sorghum, vanilla and wood. Pretty similar taste and maybe not that complex but lots of maple an wood again. Good dry finish with sweetness that hides the ABV very well. Extemely smooth with a rich and smooth body that leaves a stickiness on the palate. Excellent! --- Beer merged from original tick of Masaji Ichiro Chichibu on 22 Sep 2015 at 16:35 - Score: 8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
very dark brown color. Fairly pronounced iodine, oak and a touch of peat. I feel that both the bourbon and whiskey are not aged enough and given the style. That makes sense, but still another mouth or two would have been good. Fairly warming in the finish, but given that I am drinking outside on the steps of CraftHead then this makes a lot of sense.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Yamaoka. Back, cloudy, with a bit of lace. Creamy whiskey nose, wood, vanilla, lots of chocolate, bit of citrus left, touch of cola. Bit of cabbage. Big and sweet favor, lots of chocolate and vanilla and whiskey. Some orange. Very bitter, rather boozy too. Full, smooth, silky body. Sweeter than the other, and more approachable. Tasty. Not as complex, but has come together better than the other. Nothing out of the ordinary for a whiskey barrel beer. Enjoyed it, though not perfect.