Hoppin' Frog Brewery Mean Manalishi

Mean Manalishi

 

Hoppin' Frog Brewery in Akron, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial / Double Regular
Score
7.63
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 168 Ticks: 127
Explore the extremes of hops, and experience all of their bitterness, flavor and aroma with this Double I.P.A. An extreme, super-assertive and satisfying amount of American hop character is balanced with a toasty, caramelized, intense malt presence.
 

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8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Hazy amber with an off-white head. Aroma is malty, caramel and very hoppy - grapefruit and pine needles. Flavor is rather sweet and very bitter. Finish is dry and very bitter. Fantastic Double IPA. 090809
Tried on 02 Mar 2011 at 07:28

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle 650ml @ Tinnsjø Kro, Miland
Pours hazy orange with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, citrus. grape, pine and alcohol. Taste is medium sweet and medium to heavy bitter with a long warm, caramel and fruity finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Bottle 650ml @ 1337 Beer #5
[Courtesy of igniztion] Pours cloudy dark amber with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of caramel, grassy and fruity hops. Taste is medium bitter and light sweet. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [8 3 7 3 15 - 3.6 3/1/2011]
Tried from Bottle on 01 Mar 2011 at 08:03

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle. Slightly hazy amber with small off-white head. Flavour is malt, caramel, very bitter, hops, fruit, pine and grass.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2011 at 09:26

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
13th April 2009
Cloudy amber brown beer. Soft palate with a creamy feel. Aggressive hops, bitter grapefruit and not much else. A little aniseed alcohol in the dry bitter finish. Not bad but not the subtlest of IPAs.
Tried on 29 Jan 2011 at 09:58

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle, 22oz. A more or clear one, copper-colored and topped by a dense off-white head of moderate size. Nice citrusy and resiny aroma with the malty sweetness in the back. Full-bodied and nicely carbonated, maybe a bit sticky sweet. Quite bitter in the mouth, but not very bitter. Citrus peel, resins and a nice amount of malty sweetness and caramel. Some pineapple and peaches too, finishing mostly on the hoppy side with bitterness, peaches, pineapple, resins and citrus. A quite pleasant one, would like to have more of it. Pleasantly balanced hops and malts. 110122
Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2011 at 12:33

8.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
bottle from Bierkompass. Slightly hazy deep amber-copper colour, large off-white head. Impressive aroma of citrusy hops. Full-bodied, sweet malty base with loads of superb aromatic hops, citrusy, slightly resiny and very spicy and bitter. A brilliant brew.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Jan 2011 at 06:24

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Deep copper colored body under and average sized sticky white head. Pine and grapefruit hop aroma with a bit of spice. Some malt sweetness in the flavor with a hop bitterness that starts early and goes all the way through to the finish.
Tried on 01 Jan 2011 at 08:48

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
Bottle. Pours dark amber with a full, off-white head. Citric hop, herbal aroma, some honey malts. Fairly sweet with prominent caramel, orange, strong earth and citrus rind bitters. Full in body with lively carbonationand nice warmth. Bitter and well sweet finish, nice candied sugar notes. Overall a very nice DIPA.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Dec 2010 at 14:04

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
22oz bottle. Poured a slightly hazy dark amber color with a medium sized off-white head. Aroma was bitter hops, sweet malts. Taste was pretty complex, bitter hops, citrus, grassy notes, floral arrangement. Alcohol mellow for 8.2%, liked this one.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Aug 2010 at 15:50

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Medium to good yellow, dense head over foxy-red beer, textbook lace. Frying oil, caramel, and rather faraway hops; deepfried leaves and -hops. Agressive vegetable and again frying oil-like flavouring; hopoils, if not very fragrant. Bitter toffee, pineapple ester, pine resin and, warming up, soapy with a retronasal sweet-vegetable flavour I cannot place. BIt burning MF; very slick, medium to well-bodied. I’m underwhelmed, certainly for a DIPA.
Tried from Can on 01 Jun 2010 at 11:02