Kokutou Sweet Stout
Sankt Gallen Brewery in Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
6.48
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, can't remember where from. Dark brown/black colour with huge golden bubbly head. Aroma is roasty, chocolate sweetness, bit of vanilla, bit of smoke too. Taste is good, quite spiky, lots of roast again, bit of bitterness, coffee maybe, less sweetness, but the vanilla is still there at the finish. The brown sugar is there too, but not in your face. Less sweet than I thought it would be from the name, but there is a lingering creaminess to it. Pretty nice, and have to say I seem to like most of the Sankt Gallen sweets beers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Japan has many Kokutou Sweet Stouts but I am pretty Sankt Gallen’s was the first. Served in my stout glass. I haven’t had this 6.5% beer in year’s but it was part of the Valentine’s set so I am revisiting it. It’s now part of SanktGallenBrewery / 元祖地ビール屋 サンクトガーレン ’s core line up and pours a cola brown with a thick beige head of foam.
The aroma is sugary sweet, molasses & chocolate buns. The taste is solid sweet dark sugar, molasses and dark sweet bread. Not a stout to knock your socks off but a decent one to chill out with on a rainy Sunday evening.
The aroma is sugary sweet, molasses & chocolate buns. The taste is solid sweet dark sugar, molasses and dark sweet bread. Not a stout to knock your socks off but a decent one to chill out with on a rainy Sunday evening.
Tried
on 17 Jan 2016
at 06:35
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Great Japan Beer Fest in yokohama. Rich dark brown color with a nice tan head. Toffee, roasted malt and brown sugar on the nose. Nice roasted coffee taste with slight hints vanilla and molasses. Starts of creamy but thins out on the palate. Well balanced. Sankt Gallen is quite good with their dessert stouts and porters. --- Beer merged from original tick of Kokutou Sweet Stout (黒糖スイートスタウト) on 03 Feb 2016 at 14:02
Tried
on 24 Feb 2015
at 23:54
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 330ml.[ Trade by KyotoLefty ]. Clear dark red brown colour with a huge, open and frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dusty malt, shoe polish, light earthy. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, shoe polish, roasted, sweet malt, dusty malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20131011]
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2013
at 07:25
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
330 ml bottle from Precce @ Nakameguro. Stout that is brewed with black cane sugar, interesting! Pours dark dark brown with a nice head that reduces into beautiful lacing. Aroma is thick roasted malt together with some caramel sweetness. Charred black bread. Taste is not as sweet as I dreaded - initial carbonation kick gets your tongue tingling, followed by roasted bread, coffee-caramel bitterness, ending up in a sweet aftertaste. Black sugar is difficult to spot, it is well balanced with some hop bitterness and malty bread. Mouthfeel is nice and not too watery. Well done!
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2013
at 07:12
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy brown with a small tan head. Aroma is mild mouldy and roasted malty. Fruity, toasted malty and chocolate. High carbonation, fruity and mild citric. Dry and dark roasted malty. Bitter and chocolate malty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2013
at 13:43