The Best Selling Sake in October Was Hitachino Nest Red Rice Ale 330ml!

The Best Selling Sake in October Was Hitachino Nest Red Rice Ale 330ml!

Kiuchi Brewing Company, who is manly known for making world-class sakes, founded Hitachino Nest Beer in early 1996. Today, it produces a variety of alcoholic beverages, including shochu and wine. The brewery, however, owes its reputation to the incredibly tasty Hitachino Nest beer which is now distributed in 15 countries around the world.

Hitachino Nest Beer started with only three beers, and since then they been adding to the innovative beer line-up every year, and continuing brewing the best to enrich beer enthusiasts’ lives every day. They incorporate different styles of beers with their own unique cultural heritage. Red rice, native spices and, of course, sake is used in some of their brews.

Hitachino Nest Red Rice Ale is a very unique brew, made with special grains of red rice grown in the old days of Japan. It pours a nice reddish, almost berry-colored hue, with aromas of fruity sweetness and sake.

With an impressive soapy-white head, a light sweetness is at the heart of Red Rice Ale,  with complex sake-like flavours and a malt sweet notes with hints of strawberries in the nose and palate. It leaves a slightly sweet, smooth and refreshing after taste. The sake notes that come from the rice add a unique touch and shows how playing with different ingredients in traditional styles pays off. The beer is a very easy drinking experience, without the feeling of the 7.0% ABV strength.