Coffee and dark beer share enough of the same flavour vocabulary that the combination has its own logic: roasted grain and roasted bean, bitterness from two different sources, a dark colour that communicates depth before the first sip. The UK coffee-beer category has grown alongside the country’s espresso culture, and the Double Espresso Beer is the most direct expression of that combination — a coffee stout/porter at 6.0% ABV with a pronounced espresso aroma over a chocolate-malt body, deep brown-black in the glass. If you are British and living in Tokyo and the Friday pub night has given way to a quieter evening at home, the Double Espresso Beer is the bottle that suits the hour after dinner rather than the round before last orders.
A UK coffee stout, espresso-forward
The Double Espresso Beer is a modern UK product, with the brewery listed as Likely Greene King or similar (limited specific info), produced in the context of the UK’s contemporary coffee-beer category — a segment that developed alongside the growth of British espresso culture and the broader interest in stouts and porters with adjunct flavour additions. The founding context is Modern UK craft, reflecting the beer’s position within the current generation of flavoured dark beer production rather than a historic brewing lineage.
The style is a coffee stout/porter — a dark ale base carrying chocolate malt character, with espresso coffee added to produce the pronounced coffee aroma that defines the sensory profile. The pour is deep brown-black, and the espresso note is immediate and direct in the aroma, carrying into the flavour alongside the chocolate-malt body that provides structure and sweetness beneath it. At 6.0% ABV, the beer has enough body to support both the coffee and the chocolate without either element becoming thin, and the finish is the kind that extends after the glass — roasted, slightly bitter, the espresso character persisting. It is a beer for the evening rather than the afternoon, for the occasion that calls for something with depth rather than something refreshing.
How Double Espresso Beer – is drunk at home
Cheers, mate! (CHEERZ-MAIT) — the British toast that works at the pub and at the kitchen table with the same ease. Bottoms up! and Down the hatch! are the more festive variants, though for a 6.0% coffee stout at the end of an evening, the pace of the toast tends to slow to match the beer.
In the UK, a coffee stout/porter belongs to the Friday pub night’s later half — after the first pints have been drunk and someone at the table suggests something darker. The Sunday roast is not the natural companion for a beer of this character, though a glass alongside the cheese course at the end of a Sunday table works well: the bitter coffee note and a mature cheddar find each other in the same way that a strong coffee alongside cheese always has. A ploughman’s lunch — bread, cheddar, pickle — suits it in the same register, the sharpness of the pickle providing a counterpoint to the chocolate-malt sweetness. Fish and chips is a lighter pairing than a coffee stout typically calls for, but the salt of the chips and the clean fat of the battered fish cut through the roasted bitterness of the Double Espresso effectively enough that the combination works at a pub that has both on the menu.
Premier League viewing on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon is a lighter-beer occasion in the UK, but the Double Espresso Beer is the bottle a football evening might end with rather than begin with — a natural close to the day once the final whistle has been blown and the table has moved from rounds to something more deliberate.
How to drink it in Japan
The Double Espresso Beer suits Japan’s autumn and winter — October through March — when the combination of dark roasted character and a 6.0% warming body fits the season. It also suits Japan’s deep relationship with coffee as a flavour: canned coffee, café culture, the konbini coffee counter — coffee occupies a position in Japanese daily life that gives a coffee-forward beer an immediate context that requires no introduction.
At Lawson, try it alongside a chocolate croissant from the bakery counter — the buttery, slightly sweet pastry and the dark chocolate of the dough find a direct counterpart in the espresso aroma and the chocolate-malt body of the beer, the roasted bitterness of the Double Espresso cutting the richness of the croissant between bites. For a composed pairing at home, serve it with tiramisu — the mascarpone, the espresso-soaked sponge, and the cocoa dusting on top speak directly to every element in the beer’s profile: the coffee, the chocolate malt, and the slight sweetness in the finish. It is a pairing that works because both the beer and the dessert are built on the same flavour logic.
Coffee stout/porters from the UK are not available in Tokyo’s standard retail channels. By the case from Omori Mart — 330ml × 24 bottles — the per-bottle cost is accessible, and the case provides enough for an autumn and winter season of evening occasions.
Get Double Espresso Beer – delivered in Japan
Double Espresso Beer – is available from Omori Mart in a 330ml × 24 bottle case, delivered nationwide across Japan.
- Free shipping on orders over ¥15,000
- Pay at FamilyMart, 7-Eleven, or Lawson — or by bank transfer or card
- Nationwide delivery to any address in Japan
Rakuten and Amazon Japan do not carry this label. Omori Mart is where British residents in Japan find the UK dark beers that suit the end of the evening rather than the start of the round.
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Cheers, mate at a British pub where the last order is something darker than the first, and kanpai at a Tokyo table in November — deep brown-black, espresso in the nose, chocolate in the malt, and exactly the right bottle for after dinner.
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