Extended Barrel-Aged Four-Gate About It
Hoppin' Frog Brewery

The pour is coffee brown with a light tan head and ruby red highlights. The head didn’t stick around long or leave lacing, but for the ABV that’s expected.
The taste starts sweet, toffee and caramel. Apple flavors followed and very pleasant peach pie notes.
The feel is properly viscous, not syrupy, but close. An excellent sipping beer.
OA, very glad I got to experience this, many thanks to @OzzyLizard for sending it to me.

Extended Barrel Aged Four-Gate About It from Hoppin’ Frog. 16 fl oz can. Rare Beer Club (RBC) selection from Hoppin’ Frog, Akron, OH, picked up 10/12/24. Reviewed 18/12/24 (Review 3422). Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Bottom of can stamped “BEST BY OCT 8 2034.” Stored at 39 degrees F at home. Served at 53.7 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 57.3 degrees F.
Appearance – 4.
First pour – Medium Amber (SRM 12), hazy.
Body – Brown (SRM 20), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, translucent rust.
Head: Average (Maximum 2.0 cm, aggressive center pour), light tan. Medium density and frothy. Rapidly drops broken 0.1 cm bubble ring fed by carbonation and no cap.
Lacing – None, as expected.
Aroma – 4.5 – Begins with caramel and a mild whiskey aroma. No hops, no barrels. No ethanol (17.2 % ABV, as marked on label). No disulfide or diacetyl.
Flavor – 4.25 – Begins with caramel malt, sweet. No hops, no ethanol. Could be some “dark fruit” in there as well. A ghost of oak barrels tannin. No disulfides, no diacetyl. Marked gastric burning.
Palate – 4 – Full; initially syrupy but thins as it further warms; soft carbonation.
Style: Follows the style guidelines as condensed by BA.
Final impression and summation: 4.5 Two legibly dated cans in a row! And the second-best non-B.O.R.I.S.-based beer I’ve had from the Frog in some time. Both very easy drinking and tasty – just don’t drive or operate heavy machinery afterward.

Pouring clear brown but filling to darker brown with a very thin tan head that dissipates quickly.

Giving old ale, whiskey flavor hits big up front, but without any heat, quickly transitioning to brown sugared date, gooey apple pie and gingersnap before a peppery exhale that makes it a little less heavy, inviting another sip. Despite all that sweetness, it somehow finishes a touch bitter, like walnut or waxy chestnut.

Almost like an interpretation of rich mulled cider meeting bourbon.