Yoru No Uragiri
Kairinmaru Beer

A dense foamy brownish head on an opaque dark brown color body. The smell shows some chocolate and dark fruits, probably cherries. The taste reveals a very nice chocolate note with a citric sweetness. The flavor is like a trufle, a melting chocolate aspect and some sweet thick fruity notes of oranges, cherries, and raspecberries. Very nice mouthfeel, enjoyable, the hoppiness is thick but not excessively and the beer remains very smooth.

This beer's name means "treachery in the night" and the label features two bare-breasted women against a barrel. Interesting allusion when taken w a stout and 2 naked women.

The appearance is coal pitch black, with a bizarre thin bubble bubble head. Still in the glass with almost no lasting head nor lacing. The smell is dusty oats, like the bottom of a cereal box, notes of sweet, dark molassas and fresh vanilla as well. Too light though..

The mouthfeel is also light--but present--and it grew on me, sort of swirling the heavy, heavy brew slowly in the mouth. The taste is a salty, fruity one over the heavy, char-roasted grain one that underlies it and peters away into bitter chocolate to conclude. Very charcoaly dry, lasting bitterness. The fruitiness greatly increased as the beer continued to warm, which allowed it to rise in my esteem, like steam--although it didn't get that warm.

All in all, I have to say this beer is very HEAVY, and I felt that I wasn't rewarded enough with flavor, although it was particularly drinkable, perhaps for its blandness, (for lack of a better word). It has a very homemade taste to it, which I dug.

Ingredients are: malts, hops, and yeast.