
Nine-Tailed Fox Barley Wine Vintage 2023
Tochigi Prefecture // Japan
World Beer Awards, Best Specialty Beer 2012
This vintage beer is the flagship beer of the brewery. The brewery Nasu Kogen has been serving the Imperial Family of Japan for a long time. Mr. Takashi Oyamada, owner of the Nasu Kohgen Beer as well as the men behind the Nine Tailed Fox, was born into a family that ran a retail furniture-making business started by his grandfather. He remembers the home-made plum wine on the high shelf in those small grocery shops, and got the inspiration of the creation of a beer that can age and evolve over time. Nine Tailed Fox is a barley wine, and evolves over time. It is aged in a ceramic bottle.
Marmalade on the nose, warming alcohol loaded with fruit with a rich complex character and a long bitter clean finish. Cellars for up to 25 years.
