Captain Ahab and the Great Raspberry Cheesecake
Hoppin' Frog Brewery in Akron, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Other Regular|
Score
6.84
|
|
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
473ml can. Opalescent, orange, dark golden to amber colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Sweet-ish, sugary, slightly artificial, fruity aroma, notes of raspberry syrup, a touch of cheesecake. Taste is sweet, sugary, slightly artificially fruity, slightly fruit acidic, and mildly bitter hoppy, notes of raspberry syrup, fruit acid, some citric acid, a touch of cheesecake; lingering, bitter hoppy and minimally warming, alcoholic finish. Viscous texture, smooth, soft and cloying palate, fine, mildly prickly carbonation. Condensed and intense, very sweet, rather simple and monotonous - tasty, but nonsense in a way.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Can from HavnensVinOgTobak. Pours cloudy dark golden with small white head. Aroma is intense (somewhat synthetic) raspberry (like Tic Tac or Tom's Raspberry Liquorice), sweet liquorice, malt, milkshake, ginger beer, raspberry cheesecake, whipped cream and biscuits. Taste is very sweet, light bitter, faint acidic and light salty. Bosy is creamy with soft carbonation. Finish is long and mostly sweet but also nicely bitter, acidic and salty with intense notes of raspberry and medium notes of cream, milkshake, liquorice, biscuit, cheesecake and lactose. It is really synthetic and sweet but at the same time nicely complex, well balanced and interestingly deep. I really liked it despite being very synthetic. It is actually interesting that they managed to create such a synthetic taste with all natural flavours added. Appearance: +1 for the nice label
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at Hoppin' Frog, pours a clear golden orange with a small white head. Nose is rather artificial, with a fake raspberry cheesecake character, lots of sugars, and blah, just unpleasant artificial cake notes. Flavour is I guess a little better: very sweet, artificial raspberry, cake, and sugars. This doesn't work and I scratch my head why they did this?