Daisen G Beer Imperial Stout

Brewed by Daisen G Beer
Style: Imperial Stout
Tottori Prefecture, Japan

Serve in Snifter

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On tap at the Kyoto Craft Beer Fest. Aged since 2011, I was quite impressed with Daisen G at the Kyoto Fest as I enjoyed both of their beers I tried there. It poured a great looking stout with a tan head. A creamy body, malt forward sweet then chocolate followed by a dry mild hoppy finish. Nice!

Draught at Molto, Umeda. Someone else on here described the soy sauce aromas in this, and they weren’t kidding- smells a bit like an Asian grocery. But good flavours of coffee, nuts and bitter chocolate in there too. Smooth as you like in the mouth, not much lingering. Pretty damn sweet on the whole, but very nurseable. Not half bad.

33 cl bottle, bottled 01/2011, BBE 01/2013
Aroma is smooth, really malty and somewhat sweet with cocoa and some caramel. Feels like a good doppelbock. Flavour is really malty and somewhat sweet with chocolate, some coffee and caramel. On blindtasting I would take this as a doppelbock. Very rich on chocolate, a bit too sweet but good.

33 cl bottle.
Pours red-black color with small head. Aroma of strong malts, caramel, toffee notes, mild nuts, syrupy notes and some ripe fruits. Flavor of sweet caramel malts, mild chocolate, oat and even rye notes, nuts and ripe fruits. A bit more like a smooth doppelbock than a imperial stout. Sweet and malty palate with a mild fruity finish. Quite surprising but definitely not bad.
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Better than i expected. Lots of port and soy sauce, this is much more English than american. Reasonably rich and smooth. Not as roasty as many american Impy stouts this is more about the vinious like characters that the English versions excel at. Well put together.

Bottle at the brewpub on my Japanese stag. Filthy pitch with a flat, persistent tan lid. Burnt fudge, Black Jacks, burnt fennel seed, Neapolitan ice cream drizzled with black coffee aroma. Slick, burnt and smooth with bags of Black Jack, burnt toast scrapings, charcoal stirred in sugared black coffee. Smouldering toast finish. Bit heavy on the liquorice, but a pretty lip-smacking stout.

Thanks to Sean for this super rare tick... dark brown body with a watery tan head... the aroma sucks, body odor, generic plums, alcohol, terrible... the taste is terrible, light alcohol, prunes, ashy water... terrible

Bottle thanks to Mari and Steven for bringing this over the Pacific Ocean. Pours a pure black hue with a medium beige head. A really nice aroma of cocoa, dark fruit and oil can. The flavor is rich and easy; roasted malts, yeast, fizzy palate, cocoa and chocolate dominate, dry. Light fruit. Very nice. A long dry cocoa finish.

Draught at GJBF, Osaka 2008. Special aged version. Said to be aged for 1 ½ years, and it tasted that way. Amazingly smooth, with mature, port-like aged tones. Strong, rich, and smoky. Medium sweetness with dark fruits, medium to strong roasted flavor. Excellent.

Bottle from trade with TimE. Thanks Tim! Light aroma with some malts and some roasted grains. Made Feb 9, 2007, Best by Feb 9, 2009. Big foamy off-white head of small bubbles. Dark brown color. Melllowed flavor from age. No oxidation good. Nice.