Hoppin Frog Barrel Aged Naked Evil BBW

Brewed by Hoppin Frog Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Akron, Ohio USA

Serve in Snifter

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22oz competition bottling with a label as generic as the Bourbon barrel-aged version. My 1,530th new beer rating of 2011, but worth posting since it’s not on ’either’ site. A nearly-clear, year-old penny/copper hue with tiny dustiness throughout and a low tan bubble film. An 11.3%, FG 9.4 P, 48 IBU brew with sweet caramel, toffee and banana bread notes. Added hints of orange oil, milk chocolate and vanilla rounded it out. A smooth, English / Belgian barley wine flavor loaded with orchard and dark fruits - that the label claimed would "...build with time to add a wonderful complexity and depth of flavor." Full-bodied with moderate carbonation more akin to a cask-aged English BW. Awesome and surprisingly close to the Bourbon barrel-aged version!

Bottle courtesy of GandGKevin. Thanks Kevin! Copper pour with a short, ring of tan foam on the surface. Aroma is absolutely mouthwatering! Toasted coconut, vanilla, oak, coconut creme pie, sweet malt, ripe fruits and caramel. Taste is sweet with more coconut creme pie, toasted coconut, oak, sweet malt, fruit notes, vanilla, booze, and soft yeast notes. Body is medium with soft carbonation, mild warmth and a moderate stickiness. Ends with more toasted coconut, cake, oak, booze, fruit notes, sweet malt, light caramel and soft yeast.

Name: Naked Evil, BA
Date: March 24, 2012
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, HMOG
Appearance: clear copper, fine beige head, streaks of lace
Aroma: rich sweet fruity aroma, touch of caramel, hint of vanilla, slight peppery alcohol
Flavor: sweet caramel and vanilla flavor, sweet and fruity
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ***+ /4

Bottle shared at Dark Lord Day 2012 (Munster, IN). Pours a fiery orange amber hue, glowing rich edges with frothy tannish head atop, laces ok. Aromas are touches of toffee, biscuits, and toast. Some barrel, spirit, and spice. Simple. Initial is medium bodied, a bit thinned, with mellow spirit, toffee and biscuits. Gentle oak, vanilla, and whiskey elements. Biscuits, toast, a gentle marmalade element. Buttery oak, spice, and some coconut. Vanilla, a bit sweet and richer into the backend. Toffee, vanilla, spirit. Solid barrel aged barleywine that comes on a bit more into the finish.

22 oz bottle from ØlKonsortiet. Lovely coppery red pour with a small rim of white head. Aroma is just wow! Lots of sweetness - creamy toffey, lots of coconut and vanilla from the barrels, notes of cinnamoned apples, raisins, sherry, turkish delights, syrupy dates. The malty complexity, the estery Belgium yeast and the bourbon barrelling just adds up to a very harmoneous and extraordinarily pleasant aroma. The taste is very similar to the aroma, mainly focused on fruity yeast esters and barrel impact. There is a hint of alcohol as it lingers which is pretty much the only element in the beer that contrasts the sweetness. It is an intensely sweet beer, so it isn’t a beer for those who despise cloying beers. Luckily, I don’t, so I enjoy this beer, just as I enjoy singing Taylor Swift songs in front of the shower. Naked.. Lonely.. And crying..

Bomber. Poured crystal-clear medium copper with a short, but easily-resuscitated beige head. The aroma was huge, with rich, aged toffee and caramel notes marrying well with sweet whiskey malt.. warm, peppery whiskey and oak around.. well-rounded, and thankfully the base beer was big enough to stand up to the barrel. The flavor found a whole host of fruits (pear and lesser green apple) and licorice that I wasn’t expecting.. some of the toffee and caramel from the nose, plus a little brown sugar, but not enough.. the barrel gave some oaky and lesser whiskey tartness and peppery alcohol around, and some vanilla sweetness on the middle.. finished fruity with a good dose of alcohol warmth. Heavier-bodied with low carbonation on the palate.. alcohol presence was appropriate.. OK feel, but it could’ve been a little smoother.. overall a good, big beer.

bomber 11/25/11. clear. golden. off white head. the nose is all barrel, caramel and spice. the flavor shares the same characters but adds marzipan, apples, tons of candy-like bourbon, green barrel, vanilla and salt. the sweetness is overwhelming and unholy.... but i enjoyed it more than i should have.... 6/3/6/3/14-

Bottle shared by Armin. Pours caramel in color with a haze and a quick tight foamy head that lasts. Aroma is dry caramel and bourbon with faint vanilla. Taste is caramel burnt sugary mild yeast with wood and bourbon on the finish. Palate is full and sticky and finishes dry.

Pour out of bottle is clear red with thin to no head, thanks dak! Aroma has notes of bourbon, some esters, touch of vanilla, some oak, nice dark fruits with plum and dates in there as well, big bourbon aroma. Taste is a nice mix of bourbon, vanilla, oak, touch of esters with some slight pear, hints of caramel mixing into dark fruits, finishing fairly sweet.

Bottle thanks to hophead22. Pours with a clear bronze hued body with a small tan head. Aromas are of bourbon, wood, lots of oak, dark fruits, molasses, maple, medium esters, toffee, light notes of tongue depressors. Flavors are big, bourbon, maple, caramel apples, tannin, molasses. Sweet, dark fruits, estery. Medium bubbles, syrupy, pleasantly warming with a mild tannin. Tasty!

66 cl bottle @ home. Pours a dark amber with a small white head that leaves quite a bit of lacing. Aroma is very sweet with a lot of malt, yeast, toffee and booze. Taste is along the same lines with a warming alcohol finish.