Happy New Year's Eve 2018
Hoppin' Frog Brewery in Akron, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Special Out of Production|
Score
7.43
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New Year's Eve 2018: Smooth and flavorful celebration ale with a sophisticated high-grade malt flavor, made to ring in the coming of the new year. Superior high-quality floor-malted English barley makes the difference, giving this beer a rich old world taste and a refined, flavorful character. Ready to be enjoyed after June 1, 2018, and is expected to peak right on New Year's Eve 2018. 13.6% ABV.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
650ml bottle. Cloudy, amber colour with small to average, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white to beige head. Sweet-ish malty, hoppy and citrusy fruity aroma, notes of dried fruit, raisin, orange peel, candied orange peel, a touch of cereals, whiffs of alcohol. Taste is sweet-ish malty, bitter hoppy, slightly citrusy fruity, notes of almond, marzipan, raisin, orange peel, some mandarine, marmalade; well hidden alcohol, lingering, sweet-ish malty and bitter hoppy finish. Oily to viscous texture, dry, simultaneously slightly cloying palate, fine, soft to flat carbonation. Relatively weak or monotonous aroma, but rich and manifold in taste, balanced (concerning equal amounts of sweetness and bitterness) but not really harmonious - not the most perfect sipper, a bit harsh and definitely a ripsnorter; the alcohol is well hidden but all the more operative - Whew!
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2021
at 23:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A red-brown beer, a head is small and blond. Aroma has richness, dried fruitness, apricot and raisin, still quite fresh, caramel, some maltyness of waffle. Tast ehas caramel malts, dried fruits, toffee, apricot, nicely warming. Full bodied, not stickyness. Richness and complexicity, tasteful beer.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2020
at 18:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample from 2018 bottle during Blarney Wine Festival 2019 on 03/16/2019. The beer is a hazy copper-amber color with a medium off-white head that dissipates steadily to an outer ring. Small patches of lacing. Aroma of malt, fruit, caramel and hops. Full-bodied with flavors of caramel malt, ripe fruit and piney hops. The finish is slightly boozy with a malty aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2019
at 16:06
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
RBHD-samling hos RB-Bryne, og kveldens siste (dvs. øl nr. 42). Nesten helt klar gylden med kort skum. Karameller, røde bær, urter og en lekker, fruktig bitterhet i en solid maltkropp. Farlig lettdrikkelig. Frog of my heart (som Fozzie Bear uttrykte det)!
Tried
on 30 Apr 2019
at 19:40
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Hoppin' Frog Happy New Year's Eve Barley Wine/Wheat Wine 745410 Lukt: Smørmalt, vinøst. Utseende: Gulbrun. Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum. Smak: Smør malt, alco. Hvor: Tasting kveld hos Bryne med Holmen1&2, Sigmund og Untappd Geir. Medium: Flaske@500ml, ABV@13,6%, Når@27.04.2019.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Apr 2019
at 15:39
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 2018, 13.6%. Hazy amber/orange with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, bread and dark fruit. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, sweet, dark fruit, bread, warming, wood, oak. sweet, medium bitter with notes of alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2019
at 20:43
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Boxbeers. Hazy dark amber red with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit, toffee and alcohol. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Sweet and rather bitter finish with lots of warming alcohol. Oily and soft. 010319
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2019
at 18:18