Hoppin Frog Sweet Evil BBW Belgian-style Barley Wine-style Ale

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

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle. Poured clear copper color with a moderate frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate to heavy dark whiskey, fruit and sweet caramel malt aroma. Medium to full body with a syrupy texture and flat carbonation. Moderate to heavy dark fruit sweet flavor with a medium to heavy sweet finish of moderate to long duration. This is a complex over sweet beer.

Amber pour, tan head. Loads of sweet yeast, apple juice, caramel apples, light popcorn note. Flavor is very sweet, overly yeasty, too much apple notes. Barrel aged version is better by a mile.

Bomber. Poured clear, brilliant lighter orange with a short-lived yellowy-beige head. The aroma picked up a bouquet of tart, lighter fruits (apricot, mango, and golden raisins come to mind) with sweet caramel support.. peppery spice and alcohol warmth accented.. it didn’t quite make sense to me (or strike me as enticing). The flavor found tart fruit skins and peppery alcohol on the tip of the tongue, with cloyingly-sweet fruits, caramel and lesser molasses following.. sweet fruits, biscuity notes, and tangy fruit skins on the dense finish. Medium-bodied with moderate carbonation on the palate.. way too sweet for me, and the tangy and spicy elements didn’t cut through well enough.. this was kind of a mess.

Sample at the Pints For Pelotonia charity tasting on 07/21/12: This beer is the non-barrel-aged version of Naked Evil, and you don’t see the barrel-aged version of a beer released first too often. The beer is a clear dark copper-amber color with a thin off-white head that dissipates quickly to an outer ring. Spotty lacing. Aroma of sweet malt, caramel and fruit. Medium to full body with a very sweet caramel malt flavor along with flavors of fruity yeast and hops. The finish is nearly cloying in its sweetness and leaves a lingering toffee and malt aftertaste. Decent overall.

Courtesy of Dak! Pours a nice almost copper color but leaning gold with thin white head. The aroma is kind of sugary candy like malts, peach, apricot and an interesting mix of ginger, oak and molasses. Cool. The taste is very different with peach, grape, apricot and sugar coated ginger root. Wow, this is fully sweet, fully smooth, fully rich and fully different. I dig it.

651mL thanks to jmikolich. Pours a clear red tea. Off white head. Starchy mega sweet nose with cherry twizzlers. Some plastic. Body odor. Phenolic. Taste is papery, starchy, papery, boozy, cloying. Ick. Everyone was disappointed with this one at the tasting.

Bottle - courtesy of GandGKevin. Thanks! Dark amber pour with a short, gold head. Aroma is overly sweet and fruity with ripe tropical fruit notes, soft hops, light citrus, booze, soft yeast notes, sweet malt and caramel. Taste is abundantly sweet. Lots of sweet malt, caramel, brown sugar, over-ripe fruits, booze, soft yeast and soft floral hops. Body is medium and slightly syrupy with a soft carbonation and moderate warmth. Lots of stickiness to this as well. Finishes with more booze, caramel, brown sugar, sweet malts, ripe fruits, flowery notes, light yeast and fruit cake. Very sweet beer. This might be a diabetics nightmare!

22 oz. bottle shared by David- thanks again! Pours a clear, bright copper color with no head. Aroma of caramel, brown sugar, sweet bread, honey, and dried sweet fruits (banana mostly). The flavor hits all the same notes. So, so incredibly sweet. Medium-bodied, with modest carbonation and a syrupy mouthfeel. Man, this cloyingly sweet.

Bomber - thanks Greg! Clear orange pour with minimal head. Ungodly sweet - apple and grape. Holy crap. Lots of fun!

22 oz. bottle, sent from jmikolich (thanks a lot, Jim), pours a clear amber / copper with a small beige head. Aroma is very sweet, full of sweet green apples above anything, some candied sugar and a bit of Belgian yeast. Flavour brings out sweet candied apples, loads of caramel, candied sugar, and Belgian yeast. On the border of being cloyingly sweet. Dominated by the green apples, seeming like a bit of an amateur attempt here. Doesn’t hold a candle to the BA version.