Hoppin Frog Bodacious Black & Tan

Brewed by Hoppin Frog
Style: American Strong Ale
Akron, Ohio USA

Bottle:   Black in color, black coffee hues, moderate to large beige head, foamy, nice lacing.   Certainly smells like a combination of an IPA with a stout.   Roasted malt characteristics, with a decent hop presense.   Wow, very interesting on the tongue.   Certainly roasty, but not heavy, and certainly hoppy, but not biting.   This one is very well balanced.   Even has a bit of lactose like sweetness on the backside.   Comes across as a very roasty IPA.   Quite entertaining I must say.   A combination that lately I have seen more of, but hasn’t worked as well as this.   Body and mouthfeel are moderate to full.   Finish continues with a sweetened milk stout like flavor, along with subtle hop hints.   Better than expected, and certainly worth a try.   Thanks Craig for the bottle!

Bottle. Deep dark brown color, almost opague. Apple, plums, red berries ad a hint of roast in the aroma. Initial roast in the flavor, followed by oily hops, red berries and plums. Delicious beer, but lacking in balance.

Bottle from Brooklyn. Dark brown with tan head. Nose of chocolate and lots of vanilla. Starts out hoppy, then somewhat watery before going deep malt and chocolate. Dry and sweet finish. Very well done.

Pours dark brown with light brown head. Aromas of roasted malts, coffee, chocolate and grapefruit. It tastes like a hoppy stout. Roasty with chocate, coffee, citrus and hoppy bitterness. Medium to full body with above average carbonation and a slick mouthfeel. Very nice.

Bottle@Home. Lightly spiced aroma, clove? Ruby colour, light brown head, good lace. Sweet, bitter, chocolate, hint of coffee, roasted bitter finish, lightly spiced. Medium body. Nice.

very dark brown pour, nice thick and fine tan head. sweet aroma, resin-y hops and chocolate milk; the combination smells like twizzlers somehow. flavor is also a bit odd, starts off as a sweet roasty stout but continues and ends as a well-balanced bittersweet hops-dipped-in-chocolate sort of thing. this is good and interesting. nice medium oily body and slightly high carbonation to keep it refreshing.

A dark cola pour with tan head from the 22oz. bottle: Flavors of burnt coffee beans surrounded by bitter, dark chocolate, toffee hard candy, caramel, hazelnuts, oatmeal, vanilla, and whole milk that’s been sitting on the counter for a while (not in a bad way). Adding IPA to BORIS brings to it a dimension of pine bitterness that completely satisfies my taste. Drinkability: Bomber. Rebuy: Right away. #238 on 05122009, DG.

Pours a brown almost opaque color. Slight mocha head with just a faint nose. Smells of roast and hops. Taste is great! The beer doesn’t "settle out" like a draft black and tan, but this is quite good. Tastes of nice roast with a very strong (for a stout) hop flavor in the after taste. Sweet and light and finishes well. Very good beer.