Hoppin Frog Barrel Aged BORIS Royale

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

Serve in Snifter

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22oz bottle from the brewery, pour is big brown head and taste yields a butterscotch and sweetness boozy finish which is sweet and nice but still not bad looks better than it tastes

Pours a pitch black beer with a chocolate head. The aroma is malt, licorice, wood, vanilla and some chocolate. The flavor follows the nose with additional alcohol. The palate is sweetness with alcoholwarmth. Overall this is a good beer.

Poured a dark black color with a medium-brown head. Aroma was chocolate, with notes of whiskey, chocolate, coffee, caramel. Flavor was coffee, caramel, with a subtle chocolate note to it. Bourbon smoothness. Fantastic brew.

Pours black with a light brown head. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, oak, vanilla and liquorish. Flavour is roasted malt, alcohol, chocolate, coffee, oak, vanilla and liquorish.

(22oz bottle) Pours an opaque black body with a small tan head. Aroma of oak, roasted malt, light ash, caramel, and chocolate. Flavor of chocolate, roasted malt, bourbon, toffee, caramel, and oak.

Bottle from bu11zeye’s 10K tasting. Dark pour with a small tan head. Aroma is chocolate, wood, alcohol, and whiskey. Taste is vanilla, light spice, chocolate, and roasted malts.

bottle, from Bu11zeye’s 10k taste, black pour with a few tan bubbles, aroma is dark roast and whiskey, flavor of earth, dark chocolate, licorice, malty with good finish not too hot

Bottle shared at Beer Temple. Thick black pour with small beige head. Aromas of bourbon, roasted malts, chocolate and coffee. Same in flavour with a thick oily texture. Really good.

Poured from a 22 oz. bottle into a tulip. Like the regular BORIS, the appearance is a mahogany brown with a slightly transparent edge. A tan frothy head leaves a weird island on top. The aroma has a bit of booze in front of the aroma. Smooth roast malt, dark chocolate, whiskey, oak, and vanilla create a bid of an acrid aroma. The flavor never really develops a sweetness, unlike the base beer. Dark chocolate, some coffee grounds work around a whiskey, oak, and vanilla blend. It is smooth, but the flavors just don’t really develop. The mouthfeel is lighter than the regular beer, with a boozier feel on the tongue and the stomach. It has light carbonation and a stickiness on the lips. I found this underwhelming compared to the regular version. The whiskey dries the beer out and reduces the distinctness of the individual flavors.

This is a bit of a dissapointment. I was looking forward to this one. Smells nice, some marshmallow, bourbon, cocoa. However it’s very thin which pulls down everything else. The flavor is nice but somewhat muted.