Kure Barley Wine

Brewed by Kure Beer
Style: Barley Wine
Kure, Hiroshima-ken, Japan

Serve in Snifter

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Off toffee nose - a bit amateurish in all honesty. Some chocolate, caramel, dark toffee and some ripe fruit. Pretty boring actually - better as it warms the flavours integrate better and it doesn’t taste so harshly ’homebrewerish’ . Some port in the finish. Decent but definitely needs work to bring it up to scratch.

Bottle at Golden Garden, Hiroshima. Cloudy dark red/brown - offwhite head. Roasted, lots of barley, licorice, nice hoppy, coffee notes, chocolate, nutty, sweetness, ok bitterness, alcoholic. OK.

Bottle at the Golden Garden, Hiroshima Dark brown with lots of cherry red and a tall head. Big fruity nose, lots of malt and caramel. Flavors of chocolate and caramel, not much fruit. Some what muddy and alcoholic, and very bitter—no hop aroma but a strong bitterness from burnt malt and hops. A bit harsh, but it displays nice malt richness, with rich, layered malt somewat reminiscent of a doppelbock. Needs a bit of fine tuning, but a good first try for a company that never made a strong beer before.