Kesennuma
Tempest Brewing Co. in Tweedbank, Scottish Borders, Scotland 🏴
Collab with: Roto BreweryStout - Imperial Regular
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Score
7.23
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Brewed in collaboration with Yokohama's Roto Brewery, this is a salty, sweet, spicy, umami imperial stout and unlike anything you’ve tasted before. Combining Japanese oyster sauce, clove, cardamon, and sweet malt flavours requires a deft hand, ageing it for 11 months in scotch whisky barrels calls for a true shokunin master.
Not suitable for vegetarians.
Not suitable for vegetarians.
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4/10
Tried
from Can
on 21 Nov 2021
at 01:05
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
330 ml can. Pours black with moderate tan head. Aromas of soy sauce, ginger, cardamom, and slick roasted malts. Flavors follow same, heavy on the spice, with additional scotch, old oak, and oliy roasted malts. Slightly salty. Neat.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2021
at 00:05
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
330mL can, pours jet black with a small tan head. Nose is mostly a function of cardamon and clove upfront, followed by tangy oyster sauce and a touch of roast. Flavour is really strange, with lots of spicy cardamom and clove upfront, followed by umami notes and a touch of oyster sauce. There's a lack of body here that is ruined by the adjuncts. Bad idea on paper, bad execution. Poor.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Oct 2021
at 06:20
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from The Gull, North Vancouver
Black colour, ceamy brownish head.It smells like my pantry (or an asian shop); spices (fennel, cardamom, cinnamon), mint, chocolate, dry fishy food; a lot going on here, but not what I really need in a beer. Smooth mouthfeel, some residual sweetness, salty, briney, with unwanted spices.
A good base beer, even if I don't care for the adjuncts.
Black colour, ceamy brownish head.It smells like my pantry (or an asian shop); spices (fennel, cardamom, cinnamon), mint, chocolate, dry fishy food; a lot going on here, but not what I really need in a beer. Smooth mouthfeel, some residual sweetness, salty, briney, with unwanted spices.
A good base beer, even if I don't care for the adjuncts.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Sep 2021
at 06:14
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
330ml shared on Alex's porch. Appearance: dark brown with a dark beige head. Aroma: iodine and ink, quite disgusting for me. Taste: a bit better - some ink and iodine, a bit of fruity character and smoke. Overall: ok.
Tried
on 11 Sep 2021
at 04:23
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Fles 33cl thuis. Zoutig, oestersaus, hout, whisky, roasted malts, koffie, zoeten, umami, kardemom, licht vanilletoets, romig, redelijk zacht, romig, kruidnagel, chocolade, bittertonen. Apart. (20-2-2021).
Tried
on 20 Feb 2021
at 17:17
8/10
bottle at home.. Nov 2020... dark black.. thin tan lacing... soft sweet chocolate.. soft spiced.. dark sweet spice nose.. dark malts... rich malts... spiced rich malts.. dark chocolate roast malts... Light bitter chocolate roast
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2021
at 18:59
8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Near black with a ring beige head. Aroma of spice, cloves, leather, chocolate, licorice, cardamom and caramel. Flavour is heavy sweet, above moderate bitter and moderate salty with some nice umami. Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2021
at 22:40
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Stuu666. Appearance - deep brown to black and opaque. Decent tan/fawn head. Nose - molasses, light smoke and liquorice. Whisky of course. Taste - more whisky, wood, soy sauce, molasses and dark chocolate. Palate - medium bodied, dry and roast middle and finish. Overall - gnarly and challenging, but rewarding.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2020
at 20:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at ash's. Pours black, nose is minty, roasted, chocolate, liquorice, taste is similar, a lot of aniseed, some soy sauce.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2020
at 15:55