B.O.R.I.S. the Crusher Reserve - Chocolate Mole
Hoppin' Frog Brewery in Akron, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.61
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Imperial stout with chocolate, cinnamon & cayenne pepper. Great Southwestern flavors and aromas add some real pizzazz and very nicely compliment our B.O.R.I.S Reserve.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Tap. Jet black pour, off-white head. Nose is earthy notes, chocolate, malts, sweet booze, chili-like spices. Taste is sweet upfront, then turns to dry cocoa powder and dark chocolate with hints of earthy notes. Closes with long lasting, pretty hot peppers, has medium body and soft carbonation. Great sipper.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:05
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at The Craft Beer Co - Covent Garden, pours black with a small brown head. Aroma brings out cinnamon, chocolate, deep roast and a touch of chilis. Flavour is rich, with plenty of cinnamon, chilies and cocoa upfront, with a rich roasted malt base to hold things together. Low residual sweetness, with everything in good balance. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Aug 2022
at 23:04
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(650ml bottle from a webshop now forgotten) Pours basically black with a decent pale brown head of froth. Semi-sweet chocolate core, some dark malt sweetness, bittering cacao and toasted grains, a fair helping of spicy smoky chili powder and some aggreesive cinnamon, carries the chocolate and and spicy chili/cinnamon vibes into a spicy and slightly drying finish. Medium-bodied, soft carbonation. Solid enough but a bit too heavy handed with the spices for what the base could support.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2021
at 01:02
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Draft. A black beer with a thin dark brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, alcohol, and spices - among them cinnamon. The flavor is sweet with notes of chocolate, chili, roasted malt, alcohol, and spices, leading to a burning finish. Not for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Sep 2020
at 15:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
A black beer, a head is medium and dark brown. Aroma has chocolate, spicyness, cinnamon, chili. Taste has chocolate, spicyness, burning chili. Warming. Almost full bodied. Too much of chili there, also surprisingly simple. But the base beer is so good that even the spices can't spoil this.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Sep 2020
at 20:25
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Hoppin’ Frog’s interpretation of the old ‘Aztec stout’ theme heralded by Cigar City’s Hunahpu’s, bomber shared with Steve, bought at Bierhalle Deconinck. Creamy, yellow-beige, quickly opening and eventually dissolving head, leaving some disparate greyish veils over a black beer with very thin mahogany edges. Aroma of melting ‘fondant’ chocolate, strong cinnamon powder and cinnamon rolls, blackberry jam, very clearly present dried chili peppers, treacle, espresso, fried bell peppers, glue, caramel, shoe polish, cola, old raisins. Sweet onset though not overly sugary like many imperial stouts are today, hints of raisins and dried figs with a very light leathery umami touch, softishly carbonated; full and oily body, hazelnutty and dark-chocolatey maltiness with a toffeeish edge, developing a firm roasted coffee bitterness towards the end, nicely but elegantly bittering before indeed a sharp, very pungent cayenne pepper heat shows up, filling the finish with a lovely ‘piquanterie’ that matches perfectly with a whisky-like alcohol warmth, a lingering bittersweet chocolate and coffee background and a spicy hop bitter kick. Very spicy, bold and punchy yet rich, opulent and elegant – this is how I like my imperial stouts. You’ll have to love chili heat for this one, but there is no denying that this is very well done – Hoppin’ Frog stouts very rarely disappoint, if ever… For me this one beats Dutch Moersleutel’s Smeerolie Mexicake (tasted side by side with this one), though only by inches.
Tried
on 21 Aug 2020
at 12:51
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle 650ml @ yngwie
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, chili, cinnamon, cocoa, caramel and alcohol. Taste is heavy sweet and medium bitter with a long warm, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa and chili finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, chili, cinnamon, cocoa, caramel and alcohol. Taste is heavy sweet and medium bitter with a long warm, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa and chili finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2020
at 22:46
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Beer Republic. Black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, chocolate and heavy cinnamon. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Sweet and rather bitter finish with quite some chili heat. Oily. Too much of both chili and cinnamon. 160520
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2020
at 19:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
This beer pours jet black with a medium light brown head that recedes gradually to a film. Patchy lacing on the glass. Aroma of chocolate, malt and peppers. Medium to full body with flavors of roast malt, chocolate, cinnamon and smokey peppers. The finish is sweet and chocolatey up front with a cinnamon and cayenne pepper aftertaste. Pretty good all around.
Tried
on 29 Apr 2020
at 20:55
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Solsletta 311219. Black color with no head. Aroma is cinnamon, coffee, chocolate. Flavor is cinnamon, chili, cocoa, chocolate, alcohol, roasted malt, coffee. Powerful and complex very nice beer.
Tried
on 19 Feb 2020
at 08:26