Bottle from Yamaoka. Nose is just nasty coffee that comes off more as pickled chili peppers than anything I ever drank in a cup. There is some sweet caramel malt hiding under there, but it takes time to come out. Vegetal and nasty. Deep amber-brown with a low head. Flavor has more caramel malt, but it comes off as simple and cloying, less coffee, but still the coffee flavor is sour, vegetal, and nasty. Woody flavors too. This is a terrible use of crappy hipster coffee in a sloppy base beer.

Nice stuff. Lots of tofffe I guess from the esb meeting the coffee. Aroma is out coffee but the taste is softer. Can’t taste the booze which is good but also worrying.

Shiga Kogen x Trunk Imperial Coffee ESB 8% Columbia El Paraiso Double Anaerobic Washed Ruddy orange verging on brown, it has a quite nice soft roast coffee aroma. Medium to full bodied with a big earthy coffee flavor up front with mild fruit notes in the finish. Alright but not too sure this coffee blend is for me and I don’t really get the whole “double anaerobic washed” thing...