Sample from 33 cl. bottle. Pitch black with a thin, lightly tanned head. Roasted aroma with dark malts, liquorice, coffee, chocolate and fruits. Taste is bitter. Medium body with a creamy texture and a soft carbonation. Finishes dry and bitter. Nice Stout.

Bottle. Creamy lightbrown excellent fully lasting head. Black colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Mpoderate bitter nice roasted flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. OK balance. Oily palate.

Bottle picked up at CBB & served in my stout glass. 9.8% but the alcohol is well hidden. A luscious pour but it had a barely perceptible head of foam, most likely due to the oats whose oils can hinder head retention. Pure rich dark kakao, oats & some enticing savouriness. Medium bodied with a round carbonation. The taste is surprisingly bitter - dark chocolate(90% cacao), some roasted oats, some hits of umami, fruits & dark coffee. As it warms up the softness from the oats, a bit of biscuit and more dark fruits show up. Quite an interesting beer, a bit more intense in the dark malty flavors than I prefer, I like them a bit sweeter. Still for dark beer lovers this will hit the spot!

How: Bottle.
Where: SMÖF 2014.
Appearance: Hazy golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Vegetables, malt, floral, citrus, fruit.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Malt, some fruit, floral, citrus.

Kaapse Brouwers is a new brewery carried by Whisk-e and this is their American Bitter which rings in at 4.9% and made with sladek, amarillo, columbus hops plus dry hopped with citra & mosaic. Stylistically I would peg it as similar to many of the recent Session IPAs though it is listed as an APA. It was a slow gusher and poured a deep copper gold with a huge head that stuck around for awhile leaving behind bubble bath looking lacing. A truly fantastically hoppy aroma that is complex with tangerine (mikan), pine, grapefruit, pine needles, lime yet still gives you a hint of biscuit or crackery malts. Medium to light bodied with that tongue scrapping carbonation you associate with IPAs or well-hopped APAs but the somewhat unsatisfyingly thin palate I find in Session IPAs. The taste is bitter but decently balanced the malts don’t give you much more than a certain neutral stiffness while the hops play between fruity and herbal pine. Pretty nice for roughly 500 yen and it has me stoked for trying the Imperial Gozer Stout!

Sample from Bottle - golden pour with white head. Farmyard fruity aroma and taste, some. nice barnyard notes, fresh and enjoyable. Nice.

Sample from Bottle - black pour with biege head. Roasted malty aroma and taste, choc, caramel, nice mouthfeel, gorgeous.