6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Bottle 355ml @ yngwie
Pours clear deep reddish golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, alcohol, caramel, dried fruit and candy sugar. Taste is heavy sweet and light bitter with a long warm, caramel and dried fruit finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle from Tavour. Pours translucent ruddy copper with a transient, slight beige head. Aroma of plummy fruits and lightly roasted malt. Full bodied. Flavor is kandi, brown sugar, plummy fruits and lightly roasted malts. Perhaps a touch of yeast/spice. Not dry. Not quite sticky. Heat can be found if searched for. There's an opposition to the malt, and it might be heat. There is a hop type bitter in the background. Damn, but it is delicious!

7

Belgia pärm, magus, hapukas, mõru, alks... pmtslt nagu reklaamitakse, et alkone ja ülevõlli triple-i laadne toode... Ok, hea nightcap.

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Dark reddish with off white head - Dark fruity aroma - Malt body with a fruity flavour with alcohol heat - Dark malt and dark fruity flavours goes into the finish with alcohol heat - This was good, but a little to hot on the alcohol

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. (thanks Eddan) Amber with a small head. Aroma and taste of dried fruit, malt and some notes of spices. The body was full and the finish with warming alcohol. An ok one.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

A red-brown beer, a head is small and beige. Aroma has fruitness, also riped and dried, apricot, perry, plum, also caramel. Taste has dried fruitness, prune, mild spicyness, the strenght is noticable. Full bodied, not stickyness. A big beer again from Frog, but would have been the same with lower alc.% or even fresher. Interesting and good beer.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Ever since the state of Ohio legally approved of brewing high-alcohol beers in 2016, it seems as if its most familiar brewery, Hoppin' Frog, has been constantly indulging in producing one alcohol bomb after another - with this 'Pentuple' as one of its most recent embodiments. Apparently intended as the next step beyond quadrupel, this 'pentupel' produces an eggshell-white, mousy, uneven-bubbled and somewhat irregular head, quickly opening but retaining well around the edges, on a misty, deep and warm pure orange-amber robe with slight coppery hue. Strong bouquet - needless to say, propelled forward by the alcohol - of candied pineapple and pineapple jam, fig compote, marmalade, honey liqueur, brown rum, white candi sugar, lots of caramel sauce, ginger candy, meringue, Pisang Ambon, cognac, hints of Peppadew, nausea-inducing fresh paint, vanilla, gravy, honey-glazed spare ribs, fried cherry tomatoes, varnish, Turkish delight, bell pepper soup. Expectedly very densely sweet onset, lots of blonde sugariness, fruity notes of pineapple candy, banana, fig, yellow raisins, pear syrup and peach jam, sugary with just the slightest hint of sourishness underneath, but still sticking to the teeth a bit; very refinedly but still quite enthusiastically fizzy carbonation, very full, oily mouthfeel, very vinous but most of all, very heavy and syrupy due to both the alcohol and the strong amount of residual sugars. This thick sugar coating accompanies a caramelly, biscuity maltiness in the thickest and most dense way possible towards a heating finish, where - why am I not surprised - the formidable amount of alcohol gradually gets the upper hand, in a very liqueurish (Pisang Ambon!) and brandy-like way, tingling on the back of the tongue. Meanwhile, subtler notes of a protein-fuelled meatiness and phenolically spicy clove-like aspects develop too, but like the delicately floral hop bitterness, they are smothered by both the beer's overt sweetness and excessive booziness. Some faint minerally notes linger at the sides, as does an orange-like hop aroma. Showing some complexity, this 'pentupel' does not fail to arouse interest, but all things considered, it is obviously extremely heavy and sedating, with a - to me - excessive amount of both sweetness and booziness, two factors that should have been kept at bay to make the more refined and delicate aspects of this beer shine through. Very 'postmodern' in trying to elaborate on the old quadrupel theme - in this case the amber-coloured, sweet La Trappe style than the darker, more full-bodied and balanced Belgian trappist style - but, and I was expecting this, pushing things too far by going into overdrive. I can understand Hoppin' Frog's enthusiasm considering the abovementioned 'historical' circumstances, but this is a bit 'des Guten zuviel', collapsing under its own booziness ànd sweetness; I guess it takes a trappist brewery to consolidate the term 'pentupel', but do we really need this concept to begin with? For all I care, this is just an amplified version of La Trappe Quadrupel's shining example, with an American streak of biscuitiness and hoppy 'orangeyness' - in other words, this is a hefty postmodern-style barleywine, nothing more, nothing less. Hoppin' Frog clearly got carried away here with these super strong beers - if this had been a mere 8% ABV, for example (so half of what it is now), I think it would have been way more palatable, and would have functioned a lot better. Now it kind of feels like a parody (in the sense of magnification) of our Low Countries' tripels and quadrupels, but who knows, maybe this was the intention after all... In that case the joke really isn't that funny to me, though. But then I can understand American beer geeks getting all enthusiastic about this, and who am I to cramp their style...

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Sample at the Hoppin’ Frog Tasting Room. Clear reddish-amber color with a thin bone white head that diminishes quickly to a dense film. Small patches of lace. Aroma of fruit, malt, yeast and caramel. Full-bodied with flavors of caramel malt, Belgian yeast, dark fruit and a touch of hops. The finish is sweet with a malt and fruit aftertaste. Pretty good overall.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Solsletta 290919 shared by Meilby. Red -golden-orange with an off-white head. Aroma is alcohol, berries. Flavor is alcohol, berries, oranges, fruit, sugar, apricot, peaches. Too boozy beer.

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Bottle, kindly shared by meilby. A clear, deep reddish golden colored beer with a small white head. The aroma is quite sweetish, alcoholic and fruity, with white sugar, dried apricot and a touch of grains. It's full-bodied, warming and softly carbonated, and very sweet. White sugar, alcohol, dried apricots, peach notes, some pale malts and a very light grassy touch in the flavor. Lasting sweet, warming finish. Not really sure about this one. There's certainly lots of nice aromas and flavors, but on the other hand there's too much sugar and alcohol. 190929