Hoppin Frog BORIS The Crusher

Brewed by Hoppin Frog
Style: Imperial Stout
Akron, Ohio USA

From bottle@RBNAG 2009 in Vatlandsvåg. A low, ruddy cream head resting on a pitch black, softly carbonated body. Complex and rounded aroma. Gently sweet dark malts, mocha/creamed coffee, rounded rostedness, alcohol, and notes of tar and licorice. Taste is much of the same as the aroma, full malty, but with less complexity. Thick and supersmooth in the mouth, though, and with a plaseant alcohol warmth. Both soft and powerfull, balanced and tasty. Yum yum.

This one is worth all the critical acclaim. The aroma is full of roasted barley and oatmeal. The color is jet black, and the pour is almost like syrup. The is very balanced, perfect flavor, smooth, and not overpowering.

Bottle from DeMolen shop. Pours black with almost no head. Aroma with malt, dark chocolat and raisin. Taste is very balanced, Full and creamy with very little carbonation. Rochefort-esque finish is long and warming with dark fruits and raisins again.

In the bomber bottle at Phil & Bernie’s Holiday Stout Tasting. Pours black with a chunky solid head when you swirl it. Has whiskey flavors, anise, thick and syrupy. Lots of nuttiness. Big licorice. Huge sweetness. Chocolate malted flavors.

22oz bottle-pours a rich dark brown head and black color and pours like oil. Aroma is dark malt-licorice, some acidic. Taste is sweet oat/dark malt-roasty/licorice/anise, molasses, some earthy hops.

(br-btl bk/yw-lbl, 22oz, 107 OG, 38 FG, 60 IBU)

opq-bk, dense but thin brown head, ^full-body, med-co2.

aroma: ^chclt oatmeal leafy-hops §chrcl.

flavor: roasty-chclt-malt §leafy-hops T1, chclt-malts oats chrrd T2, chrrd T3.

almost perfect, but charr overpowers the oats and chclt a bit more than i like.

Bottle. Pours black with a medium brown head. Aroma mostly of roast malts with a little alcohol. Flavor is very malty with a subtle sweetness. Alcohol is detectable but not overpowering. Coffee, toffee, oatmeal, and a slight chocolate are noticeable. The slight sweetness blends very well and does not clash with the beer as a whole. This is a very smooth Imperial Stout and is one of the best beers I’ve had.

Bottle. An opaque black beer with a small and mostly diminishing brown head. Strong aroma of malt with subtle hops. There are note of roasted grains, chocolate, coffee, molasses, alcohol and dark fruits. The flavour is almost heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. The malts are heavily roasted, you can feel it more in the mouth than in the nose. Also rather thick. Medium to full body, lively carbonation, long finish with medium bitterness, moderately alcoholic. Quite good balance, intensity and complexity.