Hoppy Total Eclipse Black Ale

Brewed by Hoppy Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Sacramento, California USA

Serve in English pint

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Now thats a nice looking beer. Black body with a light tan top. Aroma is a faint roast chocolate malt and a slight bit of alcohol. Flavor is a really pleasing malt dryness, but ends with a very viscous alcohol presence. BItterness is mild and reasonable for a fine porter.

Pitch-black color with a moderate in size head. Nose is caramel with hints of toasted grain; sweet and pleasant, start is sweet with a nice malt presence, and the top middling in its feel to the palate. Finish has a light acidity with the hops pleasing in their spiciness, quite dry and a drinkable beer.

UPDATED: FEB 8, 2012 A - pours opaque black/brown with very high, short lived tan head, with some lacing. S- aromas of burned malts and toasted cocoa. Hints of toasted nuts, smoke and tobacco. Very stout-like. M - light body with average carb. Like a dry stout. T - burned malts, smoke and cocoa throughout. A little metallic with hints of coal. O - Very linear ale. Slight hoppy ending. 5+/6- ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

pours black with a large tan head. Has an aroma that toasted malty and a bit like coal??? Flavor is chocolate malt and hints of smoke. finishes very light and slightly dry.

Hearty very dark pour with a medium brown head showing only brief retention. aroma is equally hoppy and roasty. Flavours are coffee, bitter chocolate, char, ending in a piney bitter finish. This is indeed a hoppier-than-usual stout, but not overly complex. Still, very enjoyable though.

22oz. Bottle: Aroma of malt, chocolate, roasting, cocoa, and a hint of hops. Poured dark brown/very deep amber in color with a huge, creamy, foamy, tan head that diminished but lasted throughout. Clear. Sparkling. Flavor is lightly sweet and medium bitter. Tastes of malt, roasting, chocolate, hops, pine, and hints of tobacco and wood. Medium body. Chalky, then dry texture. Average carbonation. Malt, roast, hop, light chocolate, wood finish is chalky and dry.

Shared bomber at a recent group tasting. Poured to a sampler with a black/brown hue, nice tan foam to the head, and wavey cling to the lacing. The aroma was roasty, with a hint of smoke & char, light chocolate, a touch of caramel sweetness, but a smooth malt presence. A little lighter than medium bodied, the flavor added to the aroma notes a rather lingering hop bitterness along with an equal dose of dryness that lasted into the finish. Tasty and very drinkable.

bottle... dark brown, almost black body, a bit of gusher as you pour, beware, light tan head rises a good eight fingers, the bubbles are huge, not compact, good retention and lace... subtle aroma, mostly hoppy and soapy hops, a bit of grass, no stout or roast qualities, needs more depth but good... really hoppy, pine alcohol, soap, a bit of roast and chocolate peak through, labeled as a stout I considered this a pretty good black ipa... the grassy alcohol gets cloying too soon but a small complaint

650mL bottle poured almost black with small beige head which left a surprising amount of lace. Aromas of roasted malts and hops. Taste is roasted malty sweetness balanced with a nice dry hoppy bitter finish. This is one fine beer.

Date: July 11, 2011 Mode: Bottle Source: bvery, Burnsville, MN Appearance: Opaque black with slight amount of head Aroma: Strong roasted coffee Flavor: Consistent with aroma and slight slight bitter finish Other: Interesting and easy to drink, the aroma is potent but the taste is not as powerful.

Bottle. Very dark brown to black pour with a small but clingy head. Roasty coffee and caramel nose. Some hop on taste with more roastiness. Very good.