Hitachino Nest Espresso Stout

Brewed by Kiuchi Brewery
Style: Stout
Ibaraki, Japan

Strong chocolate aroma with hints of coffee. Black in color with a quickly diminishing brown head. Very smooth chocolate bitterness throughout strengthening and developing some coffee character in bitterness in the finish. Super creamy palate.

Pours pitch black with a khaki head.Huge espresso beans aroma with some chocolate.Flavor was roasted coffee, sweet with some bitterness mixed in.This finished off espresso and dry.

Bottle from State Line. Jet black pour with 1-finger dark brown head; definitely one of the darkest brown heads I’ve ever seen. Complex aroma of heavy coffee, dark chocolate, jalapeno oils...very much like the aroma of Bell’s Java. The taste is roasty chocolate malt, coffee, dark chocolate, and jalapeno oil. Dense, very complex palate that is dominated by coffee, but has wonderful chocolatey notes throughout. This one is outstanding.

Bottle courtesy of slob. Pours dark brown with a thin off white head. Smells of lots of upfront coffee, some hints of molasses but not much else. Tastes of bitter coffee. Pretty one dimensional.

Pours thick as oil, leaving a little head. It looks rich, dark, and slightly intimidating. The smell tells me differently. It is rich, malty, and almost overpoweringly coffee. The taste is about the same, full bodied, with an added touch of chocolate that lingers for a good while on the back of my throat. It is a great beer for a cold evening.

POurs black, with a very small light brown head. Smells of monster fresh coffee grounds, chocolate, and nutty malts. Very inviting smelling. Liked it. Full-bodied, the flavor was coffee of course, but more toned down and balanced in the flavor. i was expecting a coffee attack from the way it smelled. There was some creamy dark chocolate hat seemed to give it some complexity and balance. The finish was creamy and mostly chocolate roast, with the coffee too. Really no signs of bitterness which was good for this beer. i dug this one from these guys.

12 oz bottle. Black in color with a dark tran head. Aroma is very roasty- espresso and ashy, with some burnt sugar and molasses. Taste is coffee (espresso), tons of chocolate and moderate roast, medium bodied with caramel and molasses and a lingering roasted bitterness.

Bottle… Pours midnight black with a hint of ruby when held up to the sun. Big, wispy, light brown head with good retention. Smells like a double cappuccino. A hint of chocolate, but coffee is the dominant theme here. The flavor is that of a moderately sweet, skim-milk latte… that’s pretty much the story. Medium-bodied and very creamy with feather-soft carbonation. Espresso, chocolaty, dry finish. Cheers to SoLan for the bottle!