Hoppin Frog BORIS The Crusher

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

Serve in Snifter

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Cellar aged for a year at hoppin frog then about six more months on my part. This one of my absolute favorite Impys. Aroma is chocolate and raisin. Appearance is black with a thin tan head. Taste is chocolate, oatmeal, and raisin. Palate is thick and smooth.

Aroma of chocolate, oatmeal, coffee, malts, more alcoholic as it warms. Pours black with thin mahogany head some lace. Taste chocolate, brown sugar, coffee, sweet malts, very complex. full body, slight bitterness. thick and dry on palate. slight bitter coffee, alcoholic finish. fantastic imperial!

Pours pitch black with a medium tan head. Aroma is roasted malts and coffee. Flavor is roasted malts, coffee, chocolate and hops. Exquisite.

15 cl. draft tasting glass @ Delirum Hoppy Loft // black but not the blackest of black, little tanned head // smell is cocoa (main), light liquorice, some toffee, chocolate, smooth dark fruits, touch integrated roasted malts with a certain dash of vanilla // taste is cocoa, plenty of mocha, coffee, sweet upfront with some smooth integrated dark fruits, going into a roasted (smooth) and reasonably lasting bitter finish, touch hops & hop bitterness in the finish // smooth touch oat body // light body // solid but not a high flier within the style // apparently in the states the price point of this is very sweet

The Beer Pipeline strikes again!! Thanks Tony, I had been meaning to track this one down for some time. Pours a ruthless and opaque brown-black into my Minneapolis Town Hall glass, thin very dark tan head, spotty to poor lacing. Nose is very oaty, which is something I like, and quite sweet... Reminds ne a bit of homemade chocolate pudding in terms of aroma, lots of easy to pick out mocha notes here too. Very accessible and soft nose, while still expansive and complex... Flavours are moderately sweet, with soft carbonation and lots of oats, red licorice, and fudge. Big black forest cake in the midpalate... Big, decadent, soft, and dessert-like without being aggressively sweet or boozy. Great stuff!

Wow! Black as used engine oil, and about as viscous. Strikingly similar to FBS, just a little boozier. Roasty and bitter but smells like a bowl full of oatmeal. Delicious!

On tap at Beer Temple. Black, brown head. Aroma of coffee, hard roasted malts, chocolate, laurel, liquorice, moccha, sweet. Flavour is sweet, hard roasted malts, hops, chocolate, moccha, laurel, sweet and hard roasted bitter finish. Medium to full-bodied, soft carbonation. Had some Yeti-qualities imo. Good.

Draught@Viisi Penniä. Black color, tan head. Oaky aroma with vanilla and chocolate. Velvety flavor with sublime chocolaty notes, coffee and licorice. Very full body, light carbonation. Excellent example of the style.

Bottle @ Viisi Penniä, Helsinki. Poured black as oil with a thin brown head. Aroma has oatmeal, alcohol, roasted malt and lots of dark fruity notes. Flavor has oat, roasted malt, raisins and licorice. Long finish with dark chocolate lingering forever in the mouth. Fullbodied, very oily mouthfeel. Expected it to be smoother than it actually was.

Draft at CBC. Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, licorice, dark fruits and vanilla. Same aspects in flavour With a medium bitterness balancing the sweetness. Body is full and carbonation low.

Minimal smell. Pitch black. Extreme sweetness, also alcohol sweetness. Roasted, lightly bitter. Long finish.