5% Cinnamon version, bottle from Yamaoka. A cola brown pour that’s black in the glass with a light beige head that dissipates a bit fast leaving behind a bit of lacing. Freshly poured it gave off a strong cinnamon aroma but the roast coffee beans kicked in wiping it out. A definite coffee beer vibe. The body is medium with the taste being mostly coffee, some dark chocolate in the finish but the taste is slightly rough. I am not getting any cinnamon possibly it needs to warm up... Yep, after it warms up you get some cinnamon sweetness to it but it is stil mostly coffee. Not terribly balanced, kind of over the top but ok. I was expecting more cinnamon... Not a bad beer per se but average, if this was marketed as a coffee beer it’d be closer to the mark.

Bottle from Yamaoka. Very strong cinnamon nose, also coffee, cocoa. Somewhat harsh and over-done. Very dark brown, almost black, but dull, and cloudy, with lace. Somewhat sweet and chocolaty, but strong coffee or spice bitterness too. Roasty, woody, spicy. Better than the nose, but too dependent upon the additives, which don’t really seem to go all that well together. The coffee is rather poorly done. There is sake in this like their other kijo beers, but it doesn’t really come through, drowned out by coffee and cinnamon.