Rye B.O.R.I.S. #400
Hoppin' Frog Brewery

Standard stout appearance. Roasred dark malt scents with strong rye and notes of chocolate and coffee. Taste is very strong on the rye with the previously mentioned flavors. Boozier than the abv suggests, big bodied, easy sipper. I like it.

Bomber from Tavour. Dark brown pour with a wispy beige head. Aroma is chocolaty, woody, latent rye whiskey notes. Taste is mildly sweet, plum, chocolate, smoky, barrel, roasty. Finishes a bit dry. Not overly boozy.

Hoppin’ Frog gettin’ into the rye business – I like it. 22 oz. bottle split with the wife.

Black. No joking. A touch of chocolate & sweetness in the nose, with a stronger shot of rye. The way it should be.

Rye B.O.R.I.S. brings a front-loader of rye. Rye rye everywhere, creeping in my underwear. Spicy rye up front, dominating the middle, & through the finish. Perhaps a little chocolate & sweetness noted in the nose, but the base stout is drowned in rye. Certainly easy to sip, with no evident alcohol.

Once or twice a decade I find a beer with “too much rye” which isn’t a phrase that should exist in any language. Here we are. Still a good, solid stout.

 

 

Deep black night appearance; thin yet beautiful light tan head, dense and creamy, lasting; nice thin rings of foam encircle the glass. Fantastic dark malt aroma; chocolate and rye toast; oat-like. The taste slips into a bit of overdrive from the aroma; richer, more bitter chocolate; spicier grain element; a bit boozy; grain char. Heavy body; fairly smooth and silky feel overall; nice blend of residual sugar sweetness plus charred grain and boozy dryness.

This must be one of the more balanced and refined heavy hitters offered from Hoppin' Frog. Sure, it's rich, dark, and heavy in character, but there is a fine balanced and nuance to this offering. I love how this beer turned out.

Pouring temperature: 50 °F; bottling info: BATCH #400

 

03/29/22 bottle @ home

Loved the added Rye dimension, took something I already loved and improved upon it for my palate and preferences. Caveat being I love rye in both beer and whiskey. Wanted more out of the nose, felt a bit mute. Wish I had lots more of it!

Rye BORIS Batch 400 from Hoppin’ Frog. 22 oz bottle purchased at the brewery. $10.66 (including tax) ($0.485/oz). Stored at room temperature in store and at 40 degrees after purchase. Reviewed 20/11/21. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Undated bottle. Served at 51.9 degrees in a hand washed and dried glass coffee cup. Final temperature 58.2 degrees.
Appearance – 4.25
First pour – Amber Brown (SRM 18), clear.
Body – Black (SRM 40), opaque. When rear-lite, reddish around the edges but otherwise opaque.
Head – Tiny (Maximum two mm, aggressive center pour), brown sugar, fizzy with short retention, diminishing to a zero to two mm crown and no cap. Second pour produces a transitory 0.5 cm head before ending existence as a ring of minute bubbles.
Lacing – Tall, very thin Roman aqueduct lacing if Dali was a Roman architect.
Aroma – 3.5 – No hops, no yeast. Weak malt and chocolate, very weak rye spiciness.
Flavor – 4.25 – Taste follows the nose but slightly sweet with a bit of coffee and char, no malt, no hops, no yeast. Sweetness builds in the aftertaste. No ethanol (9.4 % ABV, as marked on container) taste or aroma. Moderate gastric glow. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 4.5 – Full, creamy, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 4 After deducting 0.25 points off the top for an undated bottle. Overall, a very smooth and silky version of a RIS – another winner from Hoppin’ Frog. For me, this is the penultimate combination of goodness – oatmeal RIS with rye – it only needs to be bourbon barrel aged to achieve perfection.

From the 22oz bottle in a snifter via Bluejacket74---Cheers for this one brother!

This magnificent brew pours a nice opaque with brown touches and a nice head
of tan foam that settles to a thick ring, thin dusty layer, and sports nice light
lacing. Nose of smoked and toasted malts, char, light brulee, dark coffee,
and dark cocoa. Flavors surpass the nose with dark coffee, dark cocoa,
faint cream, dark fruit notes of black and blueberry, spicy rye, earthy
malt touches, and char notes with subtle and balanced herbal hop
notes. Nice mouth feel; full slick body, smooth, coating, rich,
medium light verging on light carbonation that is a nice lift
and near perfect, and a bitter malt finish that is subtly
dry.

Overall-------Another WOW brew from a great brewery!

Cheers

 

22 ounce bottle, no dating that I noticed on it but I'm pretty sure this was a 2021 release. Served in a Hoppin' Frog snifter, the beer pours a dark brown/black color with about a half inch tan head. Head retention and lacing are both good. I like the aroma, the brew smells like roasted malt, dark chocolate, dark bread/rye, coffee and some earthiness. For the most part the taste is similar to the aroma, but there's also the addition of some dark fruit and burnt/charred malt flavors. Nice kick in this brew from the rye! Mouthfeel/body is medium/full, it's creamy and a bit coating with a moderate amount of carbonation. I thought this was an enjoyable imperial stout, worth picking up if you're into stout and/or rye beers!

Classic BORIS black with very thin but visible clear brown edges under a moderately tall tan foam head that slowly settles to a thin chain.

Wow. This exhibits an immediate contrast from what I'm used to with BORIS. It really does have a nice rye tang with a little spice that cuts through the super nutty, savory roast of BORIS, offering a pleasantly new and welcome complexity. It also helps to develop a slight bit of coffee-like acidity, and a bitter chew of tobacco, exhaling pumpernickel.

Unsurprisingly, Rye BORIS maintains a full, round body. It's also got a light but soft carbonation that glides gently into a just powder dry finish.