Tuesday Tasting: Brewfist Beers

Today's Tuesday Tasting will feature two beers from Italian Craft Brewery Brewfist which are a new addition to Whisk-E's import line up. I'll be tasting Spaceman IPA & Caterpillar Pale Ale.

I picked up my bottles of Brewfist's Spaceman IPA & the BeerHere+Brewfist Caterpillar Pale Ale Collaboration on Rakuten for roughly 600 yen, though I believe Asahiya also has them, possibly for less.

Spaceman IPA clocks in at 7% but you don't taste that alcohol at all. It poured a great orange honey gold (which is my preferred IPA color) and had a fruity aroma, with mint, citrus, & tropical fruit notes  but no head. The taste is ascerbic, bitter but with a fruitiness that creeps up in the finish and it has some graham biscuity notes. It's pretty good.

The Caterpillar Pale Ale is 5.8% and has a very similar color to the Spaceman IPA but is slightly cloudier with much better carbonation. A milder aroma featuring, pine, fruity notes and maybe a hint of mint. The taste is not as complex or ascerbic as Spaceman, it is definitely a well-balanced beer. The bitter pine plays off the malts & rye well with a touch of citrus fruitiness in the finish. As it warms up the malts start to shine through a bit more.

I think both of these are very solid beers, the Spaceman IPA nudges ahead by a hair. It has a nice aroma & a more complex taste while the Caterpillar Pale Ale is less complex & more subtle though quite good. Both of these are worth checking out.