Sour Raspberry Dark Berliner
Hoppin' Frog Brewery
- From:
- Hoppin' Frog Brewery
- Ohio, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 9.4%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 4.66%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 23, 2023
- Added:
- Oct 21, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by snaotheus from Washington
3.78/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
2023-04-22
16oz can served in a pair of WABL sample glasses. Can appears to be dated "best by" October 06, 2025. Got it from @ozzylizard in NBS BIF #17.
Pours a murky brown with a slight reddish-amber tint. Some carbonation on the pour, no head at rest. There is a tiny amount of carbonation. Smell is definitely berry / fruity, tart -- not terribly intense.
Taste is raspberry...jam (my mind went through juice then syrup to jam to puree and then back to jam during the ellipsis). It's tart, but more in an unsweetened fruit way than an acidic beer way. I get a tiny hint of the kettle sour flavor, but it's pretty well overpowered by the raspberry flavor.
Mouthfeel is thick and kind of still, a little bit of what I'll call sludge (not meaning it in a negative way). Overall...generally I'm not a fan of kettle sours, but Mr. Lizard has taken it upon himself to try to prove me wrong, and he did a pretty good job here. It reminds me a bit of the "Twice the Daily Serving" beers from Trillium that I've tried via @WunderLlama in previous iterations of the same BIF, which I also liked.
Apr 23, 202316oz can served in a pair of WABL sample glasses. Can appears to be dated "best by" October 06, 2025. Got it from @ozzylizard in NBS BIF #17.
Pours a murky brown with a slight reddish-amber tint. Some carbonation on the pour, no head at rest. There is a tiny amount of carbonation. Smell is definitely berry / fruity, tart -- not terribly intense.
Taste is raspberry...jam (my mind went through juice then syrup to jam to puree and then back to jam during the ellipsis). It's tart, but more in an unsweetened fruit way than an acidic beer way. I get a tiny hint of the kettle sour flavor, but it's pretty well overpowered by the raspberry flavor.
Mouthfeel is thick and kind of still, a little bit of what I'll call sludge (not meaning it in a negative way). Overall...generally I'm not a fan of kettle sours, but Mr. Lizard has taken it upon himself to try to prove me wrong, and he did a pretty good job here. It reminds me a bit of the "Twice the Daily Serving" beers from Trillium that I've tried via @WunderLlama in previous iterations of the same BIF, which I also liked.
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
3.77/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Sour Raspberry Dark Berliner from Hoppin’ Frog, 16 oz can. Picked up at brewery 22/03/23. Reviewed 05/04/23 (Review 3065). Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Stamped on can bottom “BEST BY OCT 6 2025”. Stored at 34 degrees at home. Served at 39.7 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 49.6 degrees.
Appearance – 4.
First pour – Pale Amber (SRM 9), clear.
Body – Deep Amber (SRM 15), opaque with many rising bubbles. Under direct light, same. When rear lite, shows a translucent red amber.
Head – Average (Maximum one cm, aggressive center pour), sandy brown, high density and fizzy, quickly receding to no crown and no cap, just a broken necklace of rapidly disappearing tiny bubbles, constantly renewed by carbonation.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 3.25 – Weak smell of generic souring fruit – no smell of raspberries. No yeast, no malt, no hops. No ethanol (9.4 % ABV as marked on can) aroma.
Flavor – 4 – Begins lightly sour with raspberry. No malt, no hops, no yeast. No gastric warming. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 4 – Medium, approaching syrupy, soft but lively carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 4 Second pour drops a ton of precipitate (or puree) into the glass. In the final analysis, this sour Tastes good even though it’s got raspberry in it.
Apr 05, 2023Stamped on can bottom “BEST BY OCT 6 2025”. Stored at 34 degrees at home. Served at 39.7 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 49.6 degrees.
Appearance – 4.
First pour – Pale Amber (SRM 9), clear.
Body – Deep Amber (SRM 15), opaque with many rising bubbles. Under direct light, same. When rear lite, shows a translucent red amber.
Head – Average (Maximum one cm, aggressive center pour), sandy brown, high density and fizzy, quickly receding to no crown and no cap, just a broken necklace of rapidly disappearing tiny bubbles, constantly renewed by carbonation.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 3.25 – Weak smell of generic souring fruit – no smell of raspberries. No yeast, no malt, no hops. No ethanol (9.4 % ABV as marked on can) aroma.
Flavor – 4 – Begins lightly sour with raspberry. No malt, no hops, no yeast. No gastric warming. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 4 – Medium, approaching syrupy, soft but lively carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 4 Second pour drops a ton of precipitate (or puree) into the glass. In the final analysis, this sour Tastes good even though it’s got raspberry in it.
Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
3.41/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Mostly opaque, the color is an unusual brick reddish-brown undera short tan head that audibly fizzles out fairly quickly to nothing but some spritzes above the surface.
First taste is prickly, sharp and bright raspberry--seedy and juicy. However, shortly after, the “dark” part takes it to a corner of Toffee-tastic that's a little buttery, while still sour with a candy sort of flavor, like green apple Jolly Rancher. This comes a little too close to cough syrup after a while, accompanied by an off-putting viscosity that seems to develop despite the otherwise lighter body.
That medium-light body is zippy but weirdly chewy, finishing semi-dry and little sticky.
Oct 31, 2022First taste is prickly, sharp and bright raspberry--seedy and juicy. However, shortly after, the “dark” part takes it to a corner of Toffee-tastic that's a little buttery, while still sour with a candy sort of flavor, like green apple Jolly Rancher. This comes a little too close to cough syrup after a while, accompanied by an off-putting viscosity that seems to develop despite the otherwise lighter body.
That medium-light body is zippy but weirdly chewy, finishing semi-dry and little sticky.
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