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

Can 33cl, BB 29/11/2019 @ Niamey Craft Beer tasting, thanks Madalin. Brune foncée, col beige sur un léger filament doré et huileux au verre. Arôme est solide avec de belles effluves de barrique de Heaven Hill sur effet un peu brûler/boisé, note de caramel avec pointe de vanille. Base de stout impérial est solide. Palais est plaisant et complexe mettant bien en avant le côté de barrique, note vanillé, chocolaté, alcool là mais sans être surfait, petite note épicée et réchauffante en fin de bouche. Hop Hooligans continue d’impressionner et s'inscrit, bien justement, dans les précurseurs de la scène craft en Roumanie.

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

Tap@Peders, Hop Hooligan TTO - black pour with a tan head and lacing. Sweet and medium roasted malty with sweet silky chocolate notes, some toffee and caramel sweetness, brown sugar, full body, prominent resonating bourbon into the dark malty close. Great stuff.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

330ml can. Pours black with a thick and lasting tan head, perfect. Aroma of intense bourbon, chocolate, caramel, vanilla. Taste is sweet, rich, bourbon, chocolate, caramel, vanilla, roasted malts, warming alcohol - it's very boozy. Full bodied, soft carbonation. An excellent first attempt at barrel ageing.

Bourbon barrel, bourbon, cocoa, chocolate, perfumey oak. Very bourbon-forward. 4.2

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

Can shared at THT January ‘19. Black with a tan head. Aroma of big bourbon barrel, oak, vanilla, caramel and toffee. Flavour is heavy sweet. Full bodied with soft carbonation.

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

Bottle at THT January. Black with offwhite head, rubbery, bourbon and wood. Roasted dark malts. Big sweet and bitter. Over medium body and soft carbonation.

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

Can at first THT 2019. Black with tan head. Massive flowery bourbon, soft sweet malts, chocolate, vanilla, rosebuds, soft berries, marzipan. Quite sweet, medium bitter and light tart. Thick full body.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Pitch black, dark espresso head with good retention and nice lacing. The aroma has lots and lots of bourbon - vanilla and wood, also spicier notes like tobacco and cloves. The taste is on the sweeter, with a moderate to strong alcohol burn, low perceived bitterness and some spicier fenolic notes. Very smooth mouthfeel - not too inky, not to syrupy, neither too thin. So, in the end, it is not as polished the Buffalo trace version, but sometimes having a few rougher edges makes up for that. Make no mistake, this one's a top-level BA impy.

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