BrewDog Tokyo*

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Imperial Stout
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in Snifter

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UPDATED: MAR 16, 2012 Hell of a beer. Pours out a pure, viscous black with a thick beige head that leaves silky smooth lacing rings around the glass. Beautiful beer to swirl in the glass. The nose is a bit overly intense and too potent with alcohol. Notes of coffee, intensely burnt and roasted malts, vanilla and a sublime oak and woody roast. The first taste is sweet and syrupy with a thick roast and notes of chocolate syrup and oak. Very smooth finish with a big alcohol presence, but not a massive burn. Not sure if I notice the jasmine, but definately get a syrupy, intensely roasted and high alcohol brew. Much too sweet and syrupy. the first few sips were glorious, but then almost couldn’t finish this one.

(Bottle) Pours dark brown to black with a pale, light brown head. The aroma holds liqueur, alcohol, vanilla/oak wood, brown sugar, dark fruits, chocolate and some caramel alongside a light whisper of dark berries. The flavour is medium to heavily sweet and light acidic. Dark fruits covered in alcohol, dark berries, some chocolate, some liqueur and oak. The mouthfeel is a bit numbing from the alcohol and sticky from residual sugar with a light carbonation. Hoppy, roasted and alcohol bitter finish. Medium bodied.

Draught at Birch & Barley with a mexican chocolate tart w/tamarind ice cream. Worked well for that. Perhaps my rating would be lower if not influenced by that. The menu also used the old description mentioning brewed with cranberries and jasmine. but I may have got the former but not the later. Beer color of raisins with good shading, a little soapy head that dissipated very quickly. Aroma of cranberries and strong with raisins and booze. Taste of oak, raisins, sharply bitter, spicy, rust. Thin mouthfeel with a gritty texture and little carbonation. Surprisingly well put together. Despite the dominance of the booze it was not too much.

Bottle at Volo 355ml?
Aroma smooth warmth of refined alcohol, malty filler laced by oak treatment. Rounded will sweet rasins.7+
Appearance dark brown-black with medium tanned top. Rocky texture of cap.3+
Flavor and Palate : full bodied. Cocoa blend with hefty dose of alcohol. Plenty of sweet raisin like sugars. Vinous, woody elements. Organic feel. Nice lay out if not for overpowering alcohol presence. Sadly one sided.

UPDATED: APR 3, 2012 From the 3/2012 3R6P tasting. +++Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a small brown head that left decent lacing. The aroma was cocoa, wood, a bit of brown sugar and a noticeable boozy presence. The flavor was full bore booze, wood, cocoa, anise, cherry and port wine. The finish was long and boozy with lingering cocoa and port wine. Thick and full body.

Treated myself to this bottle after a really long week. Been meaning to try this for some time now but the price tag has always made me shy away. So anyways, bottle poured into a snifter. Surprisingly translucent for the style with a full tan head that leaves a great amount of lacing as it settles. Aroma full of dark roast coffee, chocolate, vanilla oakiness, and booze. Taste was a little bit on the sweet side with huge tones of chocolate. The oakiness comes out as the beer warms adding a nice balance to the sweet maltiness. Very thick on the palate however I can not believe this is a wopping 18%, very well hidden. Reminds me of a less sweet version of Nogne O’s Dark horizon. Seek this out.

Pours dark brown with almost no head. First impression: raisins, rhum, barley syrup. Huge! Berries and roasted malt in mouth, very complex. Very sweet first then like a porto wine: fruity, structured and alcoholic. Alcohol heat comes in aftertaste! Big stout for connoisseurs? I would say for anybody wants a huge experience. Enjoy This stout is big, complex and strong (obviously). The scent is pure chocolate, raisins, coffee and alcohol. While the alcohol is well-hidden, lots of rich malts and craisins make for a solid undertone. Overtones of chocolate covered cranberries and light, woody notes create a fairly complex balance. Finishes with a hint of vanilla and a very pleasant warmth. For 18% abv this brew hardly shows it at all.

One of my favorite beers. Acquired a taste for it when Sergio’s in Louisville had it on draft.

Batch 010, BBE 2021/4/4. Pitch black, smallish light brown head. The first thing that hits the nose is (unfortunately) oak, dry wood, but after that a full bouquet of dark, intensive, chocolate, roasted malts, coffee beans. But it remains quite dry still and a bit unorganized (needs aging). The taste is awesome; thick, some molasses, a slight touch of oak, but not overpowering. Really intensive and (best of all) quite sweet which harmonizes all the flavours. A really enjoyable beer, but would need to stand for a while still.

Strong taste of alcohol, coffee, chocolate, very sweet with a lingering aftertaste. Can’t say I can taste the hops a lot, the sweetness is so prevailing. Actually tastes and feels a lot more like port than beer