I have written on Hitachino Nest before, so refer to my 20170416 (4/16/17) post for brewery information. I purchased tonight's lager and a white ale (which I will be reviewing later) from World Liquor in Hiroshima. According to Hitachino Nest's website tonight's beer is brewed with Chinook,Cascade,Saaz, and Nelson Sauvi Hops as well as Kaneko Golden Malt.
I received this beer in a 350ml silver topped can. The art features the Hitachino owl, sitting in a tree hole over the word "LAGER" and a lithograph of the Kiuchi brewery, surrounded by golden leaves. On the side they have a description in English, "Hitachino nest lager is bottom fermented beer with light color. Please enjoy the well-balanced taste of malt and light flavor of hops". 5.5% ABV. I'll be having this in my Japanese lager glass.
Nose from the can is surprisingly hopy, like almost IPA hopy. Allot of pine character, little citrussy. Color is bright golden with a massive amount of small bubble agitation, light but stable head. Nose from the glass is not quite as hopy, but has a little of a bready character. On first sip, allot of hops, a little bit of bready malt. It starts with a piney, resiny hopyness and then moves to a bready fruitiness and finishes with a semi-dry piney flavor that lingers as an aftertaste. Acidity is lower medium with a straight medium body. This is hopy to the point of almost being a mild IPL, and a delicious one at that. As you drink it develops a bit more of a malt characteristic, but it's still a little overwhelmed by the hops.
Listening to Frank Sinatra. As part of leaving the Marine Corps, I am required to fill out paperwork that features exhaustive details of my plans for the next year after I'm gone. I have been dragging my feat on doing it because I hate people probing into the details of my business. I'm having trouble writing about it because it makes me angry. Just sign off that I have some sort of a plan so I can move on and start signing out, because I only have a couple of weeks to do that and it's allot to do. Years of being in the Marines has taught me to have objectives, but amorphous plans to reach them. Once you have a rigid, concrete plan it will be destroyed by reality. But if you have a plan that is flexible to the point of almost not seeming to be a plan at all, it can just evolve to become anything it needs to be.
Final thought's, it's a great beer. I wouldn't call it just a lager, but it's a great beer altogether. Very sessionable and tasty. I give this beer my blurry seal of approval.
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