Black Bitter
Osaka Kuni no Cho / Kotobuki Shuzo in Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵
Stout - Dry Regular|
Score
6.86
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Craft Beer Market Awajicho. Dark brown colour, creamy beige head. Aroma is roasty, bit fruity, some hops maybe, ovaltine. Taste is nice, creamy, not really bitter, quite roasty and a bit of sweetness. Maybe cola too. Aftertaste is sweet, bit of vanilla, but roast lasts for the longest. Quite like this. Uncomplicated, but tastes good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at Bungalow. Roasty nose, some cocoa, but of citrus. Light body. Roasty flavor, coffee, charcoal. A light dry stout. Ok.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
600 yen 10 oz at Bungalow, 4%. Now back in production after a 5 year absence, was it worth the wait? A dark cola brown with a tan head that lingers & clings to the glass. The aroma is sweet chocolate malt. The taste is bitter coffee, some roastiness & a bit of chocolate in the finish. It has a spritzy body due to a light but highly active carbonation. It is a nice enough beer but a bit too bitter for me, it still needs some refinement. Average. ---UPDATE 2014 version---- I didn’t realize I’d had this before, it definitely seems to have improved. On tap at Ibaraki Bakuon. I am guessing this is the same as the Dry Stout they recently released? They said not... now 5% it pours a dark brown which is virtually black with a chalky soft cocoa nibs aroma. The beer has a medium body and ok mouthfeel. The taste is a bit umami licorice, dark chocolate and cocoa powder. It’s gotten pretty good but is less imaginative than their smoke ale.