BrewDog Tokyo*

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Imperial Stout
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Sample at the SLC tasting 12/11/09
Appearance: Poured black with a off-white head
Aroma: Roasted malts, alcohol and dark fruits
Taste: Spicy with alcohol, smokey, fruits and hops
Overall a good sipping beer, would go good with a cigar on a cool night.

12 ounce bottle thanks big time to Andrew for bringing it over from Scotland! I bought it online vie BrewDog’s great website. I must say that I’m sort of divided on this one whether I thought it was really good or great. Pours a pure black color with a decent white bubbly head. The aroma is hot hell, sweet malty bursts are powerful. A very nice flavor, hot as you would expect, but very drinkable; sweet and massive malts, cocoa is omnipresent, rich oily dark fruits. Impressive and tasty. I’m going to think a bit about my rating some more. Either way, it was quite a treat.

Bottled@SBWF 2009
Dark brown color, small beige head. Woody, oaky aroma, some underlying berries. Very sweet, sticky, but same time smooth palate. Loads of caramel, kirschberry, some licorice. Certain Brewdog house flavor in the brew. Warming beer with lots of ageing potential.

Bottled 0.33L. Pale thin beige head. Dark reddish black colour. Soft taste with some alcohol hints. Soft fullfilled taste with hints of coffee and chocolate. Also some syrop and raisins in the taste. Mild hoppiness. Warming alcohol.

12 oz bottle courtesy darkguardian. Pours a strangely clear dark reddish brown color with a minimal tan film that leaves spots of lace behind on the glass. Looks pretty thin for an imperial stout. The aroma is very boozy and hot from straight up grain alcohol. Inhalaing further shows a cocoa malt base with hints of cranberries and earthy spices. The flavor shows the cocoa malt base upfront to go with the dark fruits and cranberries and caramelized sugar from all the alcohol. Pretty thin on the body for an imperial stout and burning hot and sugary from the extreme alcohol with a lengthy finish that turned me off from wanting to drink more. Not sure how this was rated so high as I could barely drink it since it was so boozy.

Porterfestival, Göteborg, 2009-11-14, Bottle, 18,2% - heavy stuff! AP: black with wee white head AR: sweet chocolate, bitter, cherry F: yeah - this is a stong a nice one 18,2% didn’t understand that before Rick told me! sweet chocolate, bitter, cherry coke

(How to ruin a perfectly good stout) Is to take a rather thin but balanced malt foundation and pump it up to 18.. Nose is mainly alcohol and light roasted malt and alittle oak. Flavour is better (after you numbed the tastebuds with the initial alcohol and sweetness) but is still way out of balance with a too thin body. Flavours are light oak, light chocolate and lots of alcohol sweetness.

From the Bottle at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 07/08/2009 (Big thanks to Ethereal) Big fruit and hop aroma. Dark red coloured very strong in alcohol rich on the palate and fruity with a warming chocolaty roast finish.