Imported from my RateBeer account as Shiga Kogen Isseki Sancho (by Tamamura-Honten (Shiga Kogen Beer)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5

7/XII/16 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ Yet Another Trillium Tasting (home) - BB: n/a, bottled: 16/7 (probably July 2016) (2016-1453) Thanks to BrokenShoulder for the trade!

Clear reddish brown beer, small irregular creamy beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, lots of dried fruits, caramel, pretty yeasty, alcohol, lots of banana. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: banana, sweet, bit sugary, malty, caramel, yeast. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, bit sourish, sweet and sugary, some alcohol, yeast, bit spicy.

Thanks TimE for the bottle! Poured into a pilsner showing coffee brown with half a finger of quickly dissipating latte colored foam. The nose shows roasted malts with big bourbon barrel notes of vanilla, charred wood, and light smoke. Upon warming up the Belgian yeast notes become much more apparent. The palate is full bodied and fully carbonated. Immediately shows flavors of vanilla and roasted coffee-like malt. Alcoholic spice becomes much more apparent on mid-palate with the lightly sweet Belgian yeast influence appearing. The finish shows a big bitterness of bourbon. Big and complex but the flavors do not work terribly well together. For a dark saison, this drinks much closer to a fresh quad.

Poured from 330mL bottle (16.7 date stamped). Dark brown with beige head. Dominant chocolate and belgian yeast, some mild cherry and whiskey, alcohol comes through at the end.

Tap at CBM Kichijoji. Lots of blueberry and wild berry on the nose, creme brulee almost. Light saison yeast as it warms up, cacao marshmallows. Some honey and cognac like texture on the palate. Light whisky notes on the finish. Not as much barrel character as I would have hoped. Quite carbonated. Complex, but feels kind of unfinished on tap. --- Beer merged from original tick of Isseki Sancho (一石三鳥) (2016) on 22 Apr 2016 at 19:39 - Score: 8. Original review text: Lots of berries, Creme brûlée, Molasses...cognac. Some saison yeast notes. Cacao, marshmallow. Complex with a splash of bourbon. Warming.

Tap at Osaka Castle. Black, cloudy, lacy head. Nose of whiskey, chocolate, minerals. Spicy flavor from the Belgian yeast; licorice, chocolate, whisky. Very good amount of whisky in there. On tap it was just a bit too fizzy, which should probably work itself out in the bottled very and with a little time. Still, and very nice beer.