Hoppin Frog BORIS Batch #100

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

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle shared at my 30:th birthday tasting on May 5 (30 år av Surt). Bottle bought @ Ølbutikken. Pours oily pitch black with a very small chocolate brown head that quickly dissipates without leaving any trace. Smell is sweet, fruity and tiny salty with prunes, raisins, chocolate, coffee, dark grapes, wood, roasted malts, dark sweet bread and alcohol. Taste is sweet, bitter, salty and tiny metallic with dark bread, salty liquorice, burnt caramel, bitter chocolate, coffee, alcohol and orange peal. Mouthfeel is tiny sticky sweet, very tiny tart and medium to full bodied. Finish is sweet and bitter with coffee, roasted malts, salty liquorice and dark bread.

Thanks to Enjoyit! Pours black with a dark brown head. Aroma is dark sweet fruits, chocolate, vanilla, fudge, coffee, caramel, liquorice, brown sugar and a hint of alcohol. Taste is salty liquorice, caramel, brown sugar, dark sweet fruits, vanilla, coffee, dark malts and some alcohol. Like the regular better, but this is pretty good too!

Bottle from Enjoyit. Dee black pour, quickly dissipating brown head. Aroma is very sweet malty, lots of chocolate, caramel (sidste skoledagskarameller, de brune), cocoa nibs, very sweet from the English malts. Taste has dark chocolate, roasted malts, lots of sweetness, same caramel thing foing, cocoa, dark fruits, but over all very sweet. Give me regular boris.

Bottle at "30 år av surt", on May 5, 2012 in Göteborg. Brune foncée, col léger moka. Arôme chocolaté, caramel avec un très profond bouquet de choco. En bouche, malt, chocolat et caramel, note sucrée? palais laissant qcq picotements, alcool réchauffant avec une pointe de houblon et amertume en fin de bouche. Le tout sur un palais poudreux, qcq fruits noirs, chocolat noir, le tout donnant un léger côté collant aux lèvres.

Tasting at Dak’s. From Boltz?? Pours dark brown with an espresso head. Aroma of dark fruits, cocoa, oat. Taste is sweet with a little bit of roast. Full bodied and sticky. Good stuff!

Bottle (bomber), courtesy of _angst_. Black with small beige head. Salty liquorice roasted aroma with notes of gunpowder. Medium bodied, soft carbonation. Semi dry, medium bitterness. Not my type of imperial stout.

Bottle @Haand2012. Pours black with tiny brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, some caramel, ripe red apples, alcohol and chocolate. Flavor is sweet and malty with chocolate, roasted malt, grains and coffee. Full body, soft carbonation.

Bottle at "30 år av surt" on May 5, 2012
22 fl oz.
22 fl oz.
Black color with some dark red and brown hints,s mall dark brown head. Sweet, malty, acidic, gunpowder, dry, alcohol scent. Salty, alcohol, malty, grainy taste. Warming alcohol. Smooth mouthfeel, medium high bitterness.

Bottle @ Haand festival. Pour black as coal, with no head. Aroma has tons of licorice, vanilla, coffee and bourbon. Taste is sweet, with some roasted bitterness. Semi-full bodied, with a flat carb.

Bottle @ Haand Beer Festival. Aroma: hint of oak and (bourbon?) from the barrel, in addition to vanilla, chocolate and caramel. Creamy texture. The sweetness is nicely balanced agaist the hop in the finish.