Frogichlaus
Hoppin' Frog Brewery in Akron, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Eisbock / Freeze Distilled Regular|
Score
7.75
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Frothingslosh (18912) reviewed Frogichlaus from Hoppin' Frog Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Red orange with a medium sized foamy head. strong sweet caramel, honey, malt, dark fruit and golden fruit. Exceptionally long finish. Full bodied.
madmitch76 (40205) reviewed Frogichlaus from Hoppin' Frog Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
3rd January 2022
Can. 2020 version - 13.5%. Clear darkish amber beer, decent bubbly tan head but it's gone in a few seconds. Palate is surprisingly light, mildly dry and has decent fine carbonation. Sweet rich malts, creamy sweetness with plenty of caramel and toffee. Some spice in the mid along with a drop of sherry, whisper of very smooth brandy. Smooth ripe fruits on the finish along with smooth ripe citric peel. Finishes softish and warming. Very nice. Tastes much more like a good barleywine than a dopplebock. Very drinkable for the abv.
Kraddel (15810) reviewed Frogichlaus from Hoppin' Frog Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours clear, dark amberbrown. Small ring of white head. Scent is rich, earthy, fall-leaves, caramel, sugar, burnt sugar. Taste is full, sweet, sugary, earthy, caramel. Very nutty finish in the late aftertaste. Complex and intense, long lingering. Very nice ! Mild bitterness, but mostly just sweet, winter-warmer.
stevoj (18137) reviewed Frogichlaus from Hoppin' Frog Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 oz bottle from Tavour. 2019 vintage at 14.1%. Pours out a dark, clear brown with a tiny ring of fine bubbles. Aroma is sweet malt. Taste is more of the sweet malts with some molasses notes. Finishes with a nice glowing warmth, pretty gentle for a high ABV beer.
Dogbrick (24152) reviewed Frogichlaus from Hoppin' Frog Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2018 bottle. Dark brown color with some ruby around the edges, and a medium thin frothy off-white head that recedes gradually to a dense film. Sparse strings of lace. Aroma of malt, fruit, chocolate and spice. Full-bodied with flavors of caramel malt, dark fruits, earthy hops and bittersweet chocolate. The finish is sweet with a lingering malty aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Frogichlaus from Hoppin' Frog Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Hoppin' Frog's interpretation of the legendary Swiss Samichlaus, Europe's strongest lager and an old school monument on the classic European beer map. Bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Loose, warm yellow beige, very bubbly head, forming mouse with a certain amount of forcing, but quickly dissolving into nothing, like the head on a glass of Coke; lightly hazy, deep burgundy bronze robe with ochre-ish edges. Strong aroma of candied figs, raisins soaked in rum, plum wine, 'rocks' of dark candi sugar, ruby port, caramel sauce, tea, candied cherries, honey, raisinbread and a lot of oxidized old madera, even some rusty iron. Very sweet onset, sticky and syrupy, very honeyish with soft carb, thick caramelly maltiness with a brown-bready edge, vague tin-like metallic effect at the edges; ends very sugary with a light herbal note but nowhere turning truly hop bitter, so that the candied cherry-, honey- and rock sugar-like sweetness continues. Alcohol comes on very strong of course, in the form of a very port- and liqueur-like warmth, yet somehow avoids downright unpleasant wryness; something meaty, due to proteins no doubt, appears all the way at the back as well. Very sweet even for a Doppelbock, but a rich, refined dessert beer nonetheless - the bottom-fermented equivalent of (English style) barleywine. Very interesting, but not quite at the level of the original Samichlaus.
MrSpooks (5414) reviewed Frogichlaus from Hoppin' Frog Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Worse things to do than clone Samichlaus, I guess. Unapologetic in its dense, malty sweet soul--toffee, caramel, cocoa, honey, date, fig, black cherry, and pancake syrup, all swimming in a pool of surprisingly non-boozy viscous brownness. Too sweet for me, but I can't stop drinking it--might be the stupor brought on by a wickedly easy-to-drink 12.8% ABV. Seriously: the amount of alcohol and the sheer lack of warmth is flabbergasting. (Love it when I can break out my favorite f-word.)
Rasmus40 (36891) reviewed Frogichlaus from Hoppin' Frog Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Boxbeers. Clear dark red brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit and dark fruit. Flavor is very sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish with lots of warming alcohol. Oily and soft. 240319
Idiosynkrasie (17715) reviewed Frogichlaus from Hoppin' Frog Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
355ml bottle. Clear, dark, brown-ish ruby colour, no head. Clean, mellow, dark malty aroma, notes of malt lozenge, caramel, some toffee, a fruity touch of plum, cherry, red berries, jelly. Taste is sweet, fruity, dark malty, notes of cherry, red berries, jelly, hints of plum, plum butter; oily to viscous texture, smooth, soft, minimally sticky palate, lingering sweet finish. Very nice sipper, somehow very sweet without being too sweet - at least if you consider Frogichlaus as Triplebock. As far as I remember my Samichlaus experiences Frogichlaus appears to be way more clean and fruity, better hidden alcohol as well.
Stuu (34926) reviewed Frogichlaus from Hoppin' Frog Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home. Pours deep reddish brown, nose is chocolate, caramel, toffee, soy sauce, taste is similar, chewy, sweet, hint of fruit.