On tap at Baird - Harajuku, pours a deep dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma brings out gentle vanilla, toasted caramel and dry bready malt. Flavour is nicely malty, with caramel, bready malt and some booze. Fairly cohesive and reasonably complex. Good stuff.

On tap at Baird - Harajuku, pours a hazy golden with a medium white head. Aroma has a pretty washed lit hop character, light earthiness and dusty bready malt. Flavour has a bit better of a hop expression, with earthy hops, bready malt, and some straw. Not the best hop expression but it's drinkable enough.

On tap at Baird - Harajuku, pours a cloudy golden with a medium white head. Aroma brings out grassy hops, straw and biscuity malt. Flavour is clean, with herbal hops, biscuity malt, and straw. Not the most refined hop expression but pleasant enough. Solid.

Tap at Kansai Base. Basically black--a bit of a brown tint. Tall, off-white head. Fruity, roasty nose, chocolate, caramel, a bit of soy sauce. Sweet chocolate and caramel flavor, creamy cafe au lait, roasted charcoal, bitter hops. A fun beer, with big sweetness and also big bitterness coming both from roasted malt and also from hops. silky smooth body, and a nice citrus fruitiness too. Long, bitter finish. Like this.

(Bottle) Straw colour, slightly hazy, with brief white head. Spicy, floral nose with white bread, honey, coriander seed, apricots and orange. Spicy, wheaty taste with notes of white bread, honey, coriander, apricots, orange and mandarin. Hardly any bitterness. Light body, quite dry. Subtle, but tasty and refreshing. Nice one.

Tap at Kansai Base Station. Nose of citrus, pine, light caramel, peaches, orange, biscuits. clear, deep gold. Sweet and piny at first, honey, citrus, somewhat old school. Finish is quite bitter indeed.

Grainy, style appropriate

Malty boozy American style barley wine. Lots of caramel and roasty toffee