Hoppin Frog Fresh Frog Raw Hop Imperial Pale Ale

Brewed by Hoppin Frog
Style: American Pale Ale
Akron, Ohio USA

22 fl oz bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is crisp apricot and tangerine to peachy fruity. Lingering and mild sweet peachy fruity into a medium dry finish. Lingering peachy fruity hops finish. Nice one.

Bottled. An amber beer with a huge lazing orangey head. The aroma has notes of citrusy hops, malt, and a bit of caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, straw, and grapefruits, leading to a dry bitter and ´grapefruity finsih.

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours a clear deep golden with a dense of-white head. Extremely perfumy hop aroma. Medium body, sweet caramel and fruit, but the hoppiness is simply way too perfumy. Dry and hoppy finish. 080210

Bottle, bought @ Ølbutikken, Cph.
Pours light hazy orange-amber with a medium, creamy, off-white head. Great aroma with grapefruit, lemony hops, oranges, light berries and fairly crisp caramel malts. Medium carbonation, good dry and elegant mouthfeel. Flavour is sweet, lots of caramel in the heavy malt base. Balanced fairly well with fresh, resiny hops, grassy, piney and grapefruit. Good dryness and bitterness.

Bottled. Pours golden amber with off-white head. Taste is mostly bitter with balancing sweetness. Palate is full with creamy texture and soft carbonation and a long, bitter finish. Aroma is initially dominated by hoppy spruce and citrus with caramel and toasted malt.

(Bottle at Pikkulintu) Poured amber and clear with medium sized and white head. Aroma contained hops. grass and mild fruitiness. Palate was medium bodied and dry with medium carbonation. Flavours were malts, hops, grass, fruitiness, grain, mild mustiness, bitterness and mild sweetness. Aftertaste was malty, hoppy and bitter.

Bottle. Low but lasting creamy off-white head leaving nice curtains. Light hazy amber body. Mild hops grass barley malt caramel aroma. Mildly hopped barley malt flavor with less bitterness than expected. Low carbonation. Relatively short aftertaste.

Bottle at home. Clear amber coloured with a medium sized white head. Fruity aroma of peaches, pine needles and hops with notes of citrus. Fruity flavour of hops, peaches and pine needles with notes of grass. Dry hoppy finish. Nice hop profile.