Draught at the Yokohama GJBF 2012. Lager with unmalted 2-row barley added. Very grainy, barley nose. You really get the grain aroma. Not much hop. Pale yellow. Very cereal, grainy flavor. It really came out like they wanted. Very chewy and malty. I don’t particularly dig it, but it’s well done.

hazy yellow color, very tart lemony nose. Refrshing, tart light mouth. Balanced. Great citrus fruit beer.

Bottled@chriso pre-gbbf shindig 2012. Very deep amber colour, small white head. Aroma is caramel, toffee, mild toasted notes as well as some ripe fruityness. Flavour is fruity, wooden and mildly toffeeish with some slight notes of toasted malts.

Bottle at Chriso’s Pre-GBBF Shindig, 2012. It pours deep brown, with a thin off-white head. The nose is caramel, umami aspect, prune, date, dark grape and wood. The taste is grape, wood, leather, roasted malt, toast, umami notes, coffee and bitter chocolate, with a very dry finish. So-so.

roasted malt, rollo chocolates, toffee. Smooth, rounded and malty. A touch sweet. very enjoyable

Draught at Q-Brick. Medium amber orange. Nose of orange, caramel, light spice, malty and fruity. Lots of sweet orange in the mouth, with caramel and chocolate. Low, soft carbonation; smooth and oily. Decent, but too sweet and too much orange for me. Nice malt.

Draught at 1020. Nice brown milkshake head on black. Nose of chocolate and cream, with a bit of berry. Very sweet, milky, chocolte flavor. Too sweet for me, with not enough roasted character to come close to balance—just a bit of woodiness. Too light and thin as well. Decent flavor, but not my thing, and nowhere near the quality of their regular stout.

Draught at the 2nd Vine. Pale gold-copper. No head. Shochu yeast nose, roasty rice, yaki-imo (roasted Japanese sweet potatoes), imo-jochu and lemon. Complex and interesting. Flavor of imo-jochu (Sweet potato spirits), big time! Some roasred rice maybe too. Hot alcohol. More like shochu than beer! Crazy stuff. Likeable enough, but why? The shochu yeast that they use completely wipes out any impact of the rice. Should be called Shochu ale.

Draught at Q-Brick. Slightly cloudy gold with lace. Spicy nose with clove, medium banana, rather clean. Rich and spicy flavor, with banana and some citrus. Nice and tasty, somewhat Belgian-like. Soft, fine carbonation and nice mouth feel.