BORIS The Crusher Reserve
Hoppin' Frog Brewery in Akron, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.83
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught@CBC2016. Black colour, brown head. Aroma is liquorice, vanilla, some wooden notes as well as mild chocolate and roast. Flavour is liquorice, toffee, some vanilla, alcohol and mild bourbon smoothness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Solo cup showing black with half a finger of latte colored foam. The nose shows intense notes of mushroom, moss floor, cacao, and dark chocolate. The palate is lightly carbonated and thick with a heavy mouthfeel. Strong baker’s chocolate throughout with a dark chocolate bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home. Opaque black color, medium sized dark brown colored head. Aroma is malts, roasty. Flavor is malts, roasted malts, malt bitter, a light sort of sweetness, liquorice a bit. Thick texture, medium to full body, suitable average to decent carbonation. Solid. 7-4-7-4-15
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Special edition of Hoppin’ Frog’s acclaimed B.O.R.I.S. The Crusher made with imported malts of better quality – justifying a higher price tag I suppose, but only of interest in a side by side comparison with the regular one. I only had this one on hand so I have to review it by itself. Densely creamy, regular, slightly ‘membranously’ lacing, deep tan coloured head, slowly thinning and in the end almost completely gone; jet black robe, with only the thinnest rim of burgundy visible right under the head. Powerful bouquet of everything a classic American style imperial stout needs: hot chocolate sauce, kahlua, cold black coffee, treacle, brown rum, wet leather, melting mocha ice cream, wet toast, liquorice, coffee cream, butterscotch, candied date, hints of burnt wood, black radish, peanut butter sauce, roasted chicory, pipe tobacco ashes, shoe polish. Sweetish onset hinting at candied dates and dried figs but not as sweet as many other present-day ‘impies’, beautifully restrained in this respect, with a very thin, cured meat-ish umami edge and underlying sourishness of roasted barley; soft carbo, thick, viscous and oily mouthfeel. Thick layers of toasted nut-, bitter black chocolate- and hard caramel candy-like malts unfold in the mouth, ending with a strong, very black coffee-flavoured roasted bitterness nicely blending with a peppery hop bitter punch; a peanutty flavour lingers, almost creamy, and softens this roasted bitterness a bit, followed by a rum-like alcohol glow, though nothing overly astringent. A big, fat, motor oil-like, old school imperial stout – clearly not the usually overly sweet and boozy ones you get a bit too often today, often under influence of the much-heralded Scandinavian pastry stout concept. This is the kind of American imperial stout I hugely enjoy, and certainly among the finest Hoppin’ Frog beers I had so far – if the brewery is right about the quality of the grains used here, I guess the regular version can only be slightly disappointing after this one, so I’m still not sure if this was such a good idea marketing-wise… And now that I’m nitpicking anyway: what’s with all those different fonts on the label? I do not have a habit of commenting on labels, but this one seems a bit clumsy, even if some of the letters are beautifully printed in silver…
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Laatste speciaalbiertje van 2017, vanaf vanmiddag is het alleen maar pils happen, veel pils... bomber, schenkt zwart met fijne bruine kraag. Aroma van haver, mout, lactose, chocolade, getoosterd en gebrand, vol. Smaken redelijk dik, haver, graan, mout, lactose, chocolade, moutig, alcohol, zacht, plakkerig zoet, redelijk dik
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft at Craft Brewed. Pours a pitch, motor-oil black with a finger of foam that lingers. Lots of roasted malt, booze and caramel. Big and toasty on the palate with lots of roasted flavors that shine. A bit boozy, some marshmallow and cacao as it warms. For a 9.4% beer it really punches up.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Dark brown some beige hue over there. Crwamy. Nice. So.e booze and cocoa powder in the nose. Taste has toffee some coffee and also lots of chocolate. Decadent and fully satisfying
mart (14808) reviewed BORIS The Crusher Reserve from Hoppin' Frog Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap (nitro) at billie’s biercafe. Pours black with brownish head. Aroma is chocolate, roast, malt, chocolate, whisky. Flavor is sweet and bitter, chocolate, roast, some coffee. Overall: great.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
How: Bottle.
Where: Alus celle, Riga.
Appearance: Black colour with a beige head.
Aroma: Roasted malt, dried fruit, raisin, alcohol, chocolate, some liquorice, caramel.
Body: Full body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Roasted malt, raisin, dried fruit, chocolate, coffee, some liquorice, some alcohol.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
RBESG 2017, sampled on July 20, 2017.Alus Celle, Riga.From bottle.Black color, dark brown head. Sweet, alcohol, roasted scent. Sweet, raisin, bitter taste. Warming alcohol. Full smooth mouthfeel, medium high bitterness.8/5/8/5/17=4.3