Iwate Kura Stout

Brewed by Sekinoichi Shuzo (Iwate Kura Beer)
Style: Stout
Ichinoseki-Shi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle: Black, tan head, nose of light roast, some vegetal coffee and a caramel, maybe molasses. The flavor is sweet and creamy, nice mocha and tart coffee. Decent chocolate extract notes. Decent stout.

Bottle Pours out almost black topped with a small tan head. A nice aroma of roast malt and coffee. A nice light bitter end. A little sweetness and some more malt. Thanks BückDich

330 mL bottle: black body with a full and very generous, large bubbled dark pinkish-tan froth. Barky, dusty chocolate aroma with roasted cherry skins and light alcohol. Smooth, lactic palate with loads of roastiness and black currants and sweet milk chocolate truffles. A very nice and slightly complex flavour, well done! Thanks a bunch IslandHaole!

Pitch black color. Light brown head. Toffee, caramel, nuts hide under the big dark chocolate nose. Nutty sweet, malty mouth that comes across like pouring just the right amount of frangelico into cold coffee. Sweet malty finish. Nice. First stout I would say that is specifically appropriate for Christmas.

Bottle. Black opaque, tan head. Well-defined cherries, slight estery. Have I lost my taste for stouts after getting spoiled by lambics and Belgians? Nice sweet finish; got better as it warmed up. Hints of coffee, I might classify this as a sweet stout (that doesn’t make a lot of sense now that I look at it, but hey, this was the part of the night where the rating sheet gets sloppy)

Bottled. Almost black coloured. Loads of chocolate and dark fruits in the aroma and in the flavour. Roasty finish.

Almost black. Aroma is rich and fruity - chocolate covered cherries, new suede jackets and a Luang Prabang-style coffee. Flavour is sweet, mocha-like, with only a light fruitiness. Heavy body, very smooth. Fairly simple, but tasty stuff.

Nearly black with red hints. Creamy bubbly beige head. Powerfull aroma of roasted coffebeans, dark chocolate and vanilla. Strong but smooth roasted flavour of coffee, toffee and salt. Long finish of roasted malts. Quite powerfull. Good stout!

Bottled, thanks IslandHaole! Very black, brown, creamy head. Aroma of licorice and blackberries. Fruit and somewhat funky, like a Swiss/French/Belgian stout. Salty and fairly hoppy but also rathe sweet. Inky, bitter finish.

Big thanks to IslandHaole for this one. Pours dark black with 2-finger tan head and great lace. Aroma of roasty malt, chocoff, licorice, and some port. Tastes very malty, with a nice chocoff element, backed up with licorice and a slight soy sauce. Notable complexity and a dense, smooth, complex palate. As it warmed, I noticed some caramel. Very good. A real winner from the land of the rising sun. Get me a Geisha girl and I’ll be all set!