Baeren Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Baeren
Style: Sweet Stout
Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Serve in English pint

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Aroma of ocean, oysters. Creamy in texture, the taste adds chocolate, coffee and sweet barbecue sauce. Full bodied and a long pleasant aftertaste including some bitterness. (Free sampler @ Bulldog in Ginza, Tokyo, February 2009.)

Bottle from Yamaoka in Kyoto. Good woody aroma with lots of chocolate, some coffee and caramel. Flavor similar, though not quite as rich as the nose. Good chocolate and coffee, plus smoke, milk. Palate is a little thin for a stout. Generally very tasty, though.

Dark brown with a firm, chocolate milk-colored head. Bittersweet chocolate, roasted malts, milk. Lightly roasted malts, chocolate, some smoke, and milk. Finish is roasted malts, and bittersweet. Nice, smooth body. Not the most complex stout, but easily drinkable and rather tasty.

Draft: Pitch black color, frothy brown head, dark chocolate nose. Not too strong. Silky smooth mouth with dark chocolate, whisky, cherries and a touch of nuttiness. Palate is very smooth, but lacking roasted character I wanted. Smooth chocolatey finish.

This is something special. This beer was purchased in a supermarket, lost in a sea of Japanese macros. Dark brown, near pitch black with a huge, dense tan head, leaving some sticky lacing on the glass. Aroma of sweet coffee, chocolate, dark roasted/burnt malts, and dark brown sugar. Very dense and rich flavors of coffee, chocolate, sweet malts, yeast, tobacco, and a woody character. Creamy, silky, soft, delicate mouthfeel. Very complex, not too much chocolatey flavor (which sometimes turns me off). Great stuff, a true gem from Baeren.

Very dark brown, near black with a small light brown head. Coffee, molassas and Dark Chocolate with light floral spicy hopping. Thick and rich, mild dark chocolate, quite tasty. Baeren continues to impress!