Hakone Kazamatsuri Stout

Brewed by Hakone Biru Gura
Style: Stout
Hakone, Japan

Serve in English pint

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Can-bottle from the company’s satelite shop in Odawara. Malty aroma, chocolate and wood, condensed milk, caramel. Black with a lacy head. More roasty in the flavor, burnt wood, caramel, cola, licorice (a touch), berries, chocolate, and a bit of hot alcohol. Somewhat prickly and acidic. Good hop bitterness as well. "Reasonably dry," to quote Wombata. Not all that sweet, with a nice bitterness. Could use more body.

On tap at the Hakone Brewery cafe/shop. Very very dark brown colour with off white creamy stout head. Nose is chocolate, lactic creaminess, plasticky, and roasted grain. Taste has a hoppy bite with bit of citrus and then it’s roasted grain, plastic, lactic and bitter roasted and hop finish.

Can from the brewery shop. Almost black with a small, beige head. Roasted coffee aroma, hints of salty meat. Meaty flavours overpowering any dry roast, some malty sweetness. Quite a surprise- almost a rauchbock from the spa town of Hakone.

UPDATED: DEC 31, 2008 Pitch black color. Big bittering chocolate nose. Light bodied, slightly sweet start, but then dark chocolate, grapes, nuts, slightly vinous. Smooth dark chocolately finish. Nice stuff.