Hoppy Feet Black IPA
Clown Shoes in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
7.18
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Reubs (35701) reviewed Hoppy Feet Black IPA from Clown Shoes 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Kihoskh, Copenhagen - fuzzy dark brown to black coloured pour with a beige head. Aroma and taste is a mix of roasted malts and tropical citrus fruits, prominent hoppy, grapefruit, pine needles, some caramel, roasted hoppy finish. Decent.
PMgep (4081) ticked Hoppy Feet Black IPA from Clown Shoes 10 years ago
solidfunk (22078) reviewed Hoppy Feet Black IPA from Clown Shoes 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Easy drinking for style. Lots of roast and light hops. Chocolate. Creamy consistency, smooth. Black pour with mocha head. Tap at Churchkey.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Hoppy Feet Black IPA from Clown Shoes 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
My first beer from this Massachusetts beer company, a BIPA from a 65 cl bottle, allegedly "first made as a joke" (hence the name, I assume). Creamy and fairly dense, tan, lacing head over a very dark burgundy coloured beer, nearly black but still fairly transparent just beneath the head (and only there), hazy. Lovely dank aroma of pine needles, lime peel, tangelo, cocoa and even chocolate sauce here and there, coffee grounds, whisky, raisins, dried banana, a fine but sharpish beef broth odour, fresh nettles, hints of vanilla, rye bread, cigar ashes, hemp, salmiac, plum brandy, candied figs, wormwood... This is a very enticing bouquet, sweet and bitter aromas seem to alternate and the more I smell it, the more lovely impressions I seem to get. Very bitter taste, but in a complex, layered way; restrained ’dark’ fruitiness in the onset, only very briefly sweet (less so than expected based on the aroma), smooth, oily and resinous mouthfeel, slick body, soft carbonation, very lightly (perhaps just a bit too lightly) caramelly and chocolatey malts, but coffee-like roasted bitterness setting in very early and increasing in the end, where it gets the company of a very powerful, peppery, spicy hop bitterness, very dry and resinous, sticking to the mouth cavity, with both elegantly aromatic, citrussy aspects as a bold and ’deep’, earthy bitterness; a salty salmiac accent also runs through the palate, drying the mouth even further, but fortunately being ’tamed’ by the powerful bitterness and therefore not becoming too obnoxious. Alcohol remains well hidden, though a slight warming effect is certainly there. Perhaps not the single most amazing black IPA I had so far, but I like this for its sheer boldness and it certainly scores above average; the coffee and bitter chocolate flavours of the roasted barley mingle beautifully with the complex, spicy hop bitterness, both are still separable, but seem to make each other more attractive. Lovely, but somewhat ’demanding’ example of the style.
minutemat (16469) reviewed Hoppy Feet Black IPA from Clown Shoes 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
330ml bottle @ Chez Sophie, Shrewsbury. Pours black with good tan head. CDA aroma, hoppy with roasted malts. Taste is a touch sticky with citrus hops and roasted malts.
Gerbeer (8336) reviewed Hoppy Feet Black IPA from Clown Shoes 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz bottle. Pours a deep dark mahogany with moderate retentive head. Aromas of pine, dark caramel, and sweet roasted malts. Flavors follow same with addition resin and dark fruit. I am a sucker for a good black IPA. This one is really good.
teddybeer (5761) reviewed Hoppy Feet Black IPA from Clown Shoes 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Black color with an off-white head with good duration. Aroma has hoppy notes with roasted malts notes. Flavor is roasty, moderate bittery, some coffee and licorice hints. Bittery final with good duration.
fiulijn (28383) reviewed Hoppy Feet Black IPA from Clown Shoes 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tasting at Matt’s; vintage 2014
Black color, medium sized compact head. Very nice aroma, dark malts, buckwheat. The mouthfeel is strong, dry, but also smooth; strong flavor of roasted malt, a bit too ashy for me, but followed by the expected high resin hopping. Matt says chalky and I agree.
Very good.
mcberko (47797) reviewed Hoppy Feet Black IPA from Clown Shoes 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 oz. bottle, pours black with a medium beige head. Nose is very chalky, with roasted malt and pine. Flavour is better, with a good balance of roasted malt and piney hops, with low astringency and a dry finish. Well-balanced, with a slight chalkiness that is more pronounced on the nose.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Hoppy Feet Black IPA from Clown Shoes 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle - Roast malts and some piny notes. Jet black brown with a decent brown head. Dark roast and piny hops. Decent.