Imperial Granola Milk Stout
Hoppin' Frog Brewery
- From:
- Hoppin' Frog Brewery
- Ohio, United States
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.86 | pDev: 2.8%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 09, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 11, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
2.93/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
2.93/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Imperial Granola Milk Stout from Hoppin’ Frog, 16 oz can. Picked up at brewery 22/03/23. Reviewed 09/04/23 (Review 3069). Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Bottom of can stamped “BEST BY JAN 4 2026”. Stored at 34 degrees at home. Served at 47.4 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 55.9 degrees F.
Appearance – 3.
First pour – Deep Brown (SRM 30), opaque.
Body – Black (SRM 40), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear lite, shows a translucent olive at the top edge and ruby at the bottom.
Head – None. While pouring, a two mm fizzy ring of bubbles appears but quickly evaporates.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 3 – A bit of grainy granola. No malt, no yeast, no hops, no chocolate, no coconut. No ethanol (10.0 % ABV as marked on the label) aroma.
Flavor – 2.5 – Initially no hops, malt, or yeast; light chocolate, no coconut. As it warms, more of the crappy granola taste comes through. Slight gastric warming. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate –3.25– Thin to medium; creamy; soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3 Well… Appearance is similar to the B.O.R.I.S./D.O.R.I.S./T.O.R.I.S. series of RISs but unfortunately the similarity ends at the appearance. The flavor is bad, still drinkable but certainly unappealing. The aroma is very neutral, neither good nor bad, just weak but still there. The palate is the high point. In general, if you can avoid this one, do so.
Apr 09, 2023Bottom of can stamped “BEST BY JAN 4 2026”. Stored at 34 degrees at home. Served at 47.4 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 55.9 degrees F.
Appearance – 3.
First pour – Deep Brown (SRM 30), opaque.
Body – Black (SRM 40), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear lite, shows a translucent olive at the top edge and ruby at the bottom.
Head – None. While pouring, a two mm fizzy ring of bubbles appears but quickly evaporates.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 3 – A bit of grainy granola. No malt, no yeast, no hops, no chocolate, no coconut. No ethanol (10.0 % ABV as marked on the label) aroma.
Flavor – 2.5 – Initially no hops, malt, or yeast; light chocolate, no coconut. As it warms, more of the crappy granola taste comes through. Slight gastric warming. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate –3.25– Thin to medium; creamy; soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3 Well… Appearance is similar to the B.O.R.I.S./D.O.R.I.S./T.O.R.I.S. series of RISs but unfortunately the similarity ends at the appearance. The flavor is bad, still drinkable but certainly unappealing. The aroma is very neutral, neither good nor bad, just weak but still there. The palate is the high point. In general, if you can avoid this one, do so.
Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
2.78/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
2.78/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
Fully opaque matte black with a short tan head that slowly disperses to a level quarter pipe ridge.
Smell is overly sweet of Swiss Miss marshmallow and chocolate chip, but at the same time pretty in line with the inspiration.
Unfortunately taste is even sweeter up front, sharply so of floral vanilla, which recedes to a pretty bitingly high acid dark malt with a sort of vegetal, heart of romaine bitterness in the aftertaste, which amplifies the boozy presence of alcohol.
The medium-light body has a finely crackly carbonation that comes to a just barely semi-dry finish.
The unusually abrupt whiplash between sweet and bitter makes this one legitimately hard to put down.
Jan 14, 2023Smell is overly sweet of Swiss Miss marshmallow and chocolate chip, but at the same time pretty in line with the inspiration.
Unfortunately taste is even sweeter up front, sharply so of floral vanilla, which recedes to a pretty bitingly high acid dark malt with a sort of vegetal, heart of romaine bitterness in the aftertaste, which amplifies the boozy presence of alcohol.
The medium-light body has a finely crackly carbonation that comes to a just barely semi-dry finish.
The unusually abrupt whiplash between sweet and bitter makes this one legitimately hard to put down.
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