(Bottle) Pours dark brown with no head. Pleasant aroma of dark roast grain with smoky hints. Medium body with good fine carbonation. Dark toffee, burnt sugar, black coffee bitterness. Subtle sweetness. Nice bitterness in finish. Good beer.

Hints of roast, bit creamy, best of the bunch. Not so thin

---------new rating 2016-----------
Got a bottle of this (proper glass not the aluminium stubby) and shared it with a few guys. It was a properly done dark lager with no off flavors and I found it satisfying. And I do feel that the dark character was more prominent this time around so I’m bumping the rating up to 3.5

---------original rating June 2014-------------
Bottle from the Akihabara Station Nomono, 5% a very dark brown that is black in the glass with ruby highlights & a thick beige head that dissipates quickly. Served in a pilsner glass. The aroma is rich dark malts with caramel, breadiness & light chocolate. The mouthfeel is somewhat thin & watery at first but then becomes more satisfying. The taste is a sweet graininess which gives it some breadiness, light chocolate, a bit of roast and a touch of caramel but this is quite malty in the sense it smells & tastes mostly like grains. It’s OK but I’d like the dark malt character to shine through more. 3.2

Drought at Bay Brewing Yokohama. Black with a large head. Creamy nose with roasted malt. Flavor of rich malt, chocolate, and cream, vanilla. Well balanced but somewhat non-descript. A tasty enough dunkel.

Quick dissipating white head. A light brown body. Solid chocolately nose with slight sour overtones and faint hints of chocolate and nuts. Light bodied, mildly sour, chocolate coffee mouth and slightly sour malty chocolately finish. Re-rating almost six years later from a 2.7 to 3.6. Dramatically improved over this time period. lots of roasted malt nose. Mouth is malty, lots Of chocolate malt and roasty character with a touch of astringency. Very nice with good depth