Hitachino Nest Espresso Stout

Brewed by Kiuchi Brewery
Style: Stout
Ibaraki, Japan

Serve in English pint

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12 oz bottle. Pours dark black with a large long lasting tan head. It has the aroma of dark chocolate and espresso. This beer is wonderful. It tastes intensely of unsweetened dark chocolate and espresso with some vanilla and smoke. I’ll definitely try to drink more by this brewer.

Dark coffee brown with a chocolate head with a slight orange hue. Aromas of brownies, chocolate, chocolate pudding, cocoa, coffee. Flavors of brownie, coffee, chocolate, hint of vanilla (but hidden), slight caramel. Roasty, medium sweet, roasted malt aftertaste, lightly bitter, delicious.

Poured almost black, viscous with a small tan head. Smells of coffee with a bit of sweetness, chocolate? Tastes of roasted malt, fairly bitter coffee and a bit of cocoa. The mouth feel is very smooth.

Pours thick and black with mocha head. Sediment throughout. Beautiful. Smells like all things good in this world. Coffee, chocolate, sweetness. Awesome slick palate. Slightly bitter coffee beans balanced perfectly with fruit sweetness. An all around amazing amazing stout. Hard for me to find anything wrong with this.

Medium palate, very dark. Minimal head and lacing. Very dark roasted malts and lots of coffee on nose and in taste. Tasty, but pricey. Glad I tried it but won’t be buying it again.

330ml bottle pours black in color with a big beige head that leaves a few spots of lacing as it settles. Aroma is dominated by coffee with hints of chocolate and roasted malts. Taste is also coffee dominant with some chocolate malt sweetness and roasted malt bitterness. Medium to heavy body with decent carbonation. As I am not a coffee drinker, I did not enjoy the coffee dominant flavors of this brew. Although it is a top quality beer, it is just not for me.

Bottle pours opaque fizzy cola black with tan head, somewhat dissipating to a light covering. Big coffee bean aroma mixed with a nice roast, burnt toffee, chocolate and grains. Some light grassy noble hop character and pitted fruits are also apparent. Medium body of nice roast and coffee bean expanding into a big rich body of chocolate and caramel to boost the other key flavours with lingering coffee bean bitter and reflective finish. Average carbonation. Top! top! beer!

Pours a black black color with a thick brown head. Looks pretty creamy. Smells of coffee and some chocolate. Pretty creamy taste. Nice burnt aftertaste. Smooth chocolately flavors.

Style et résumé: Espresso Stout.
Comment: Bouteille de 341ml nectar partagé par mon ami Patrick.
Description: Ce stout est brun foncé avec une mousse brune. Le nez a quelque chose d’acide, il y a aussi du chocolat et de la vanille. En bouche le liquide a une belle texture. On y retrouve les saveurs de chocolat et de vanille qui étaient présentes au nez. Le café est peu présent malgré qu’il devrait être le goût dominant. Cette bière manque de fraicheur.
Note: 6/10

Poured very dark, almost black, with a tall thick and foamy brown head. The aroma was mild with espresso, dark chocolate, licorice and some sweetness from dark fruits. The beer had a thick creamy texture and a smooth initial taste. There was a building coffee flavor with a bit of smokiness there too. The flavor remand on the mild side and finished with a mellow coffee flavor that had some milk chocolate as well. The head left nice thick clingy lacing. The 7.5% ABV was not detected at all. This was very smooth and mellow. I guess with the name ’Espresso Stout’ I was thinking more up front coffee and more bitterness, but this was good.

(Via a trade with dresden. Thanks!) Un beau regard foncé. Une mousse beige en anneau. Un nez de chocolat et de vanille qui me semble être faiblement touché par le café. En bouche, le café se manifeste davantage. Des malts doux s’empressent de s’étendre sur mes papilles. Un retour inopiné de la vanille et des chocolats bruns. Un certain goût fruité. Fermentation? Levure? Des malts rôtis qui tendent à développer une certaine âcreté. Un corps de moyenne densité. Une texture agréable avec son profil crémeux. Une effervescence bien présente. En fin de parcours, des notes maltées qui sont à la remorque de notes torréfiées. Impossible de savoir si la bouteille est jeune ou vieille.