Barrel-Aged Bite of the Cake Spicy Chocolate Cake Stout
Hoppin' Frog Brewery
- From:
- Hoppin' Frog Brewery
- Ohio, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Pastry Stout
- ABV:
- 12.3%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.37 | pDev: 1.37%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 22, 2026
- Added:
- May 22, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Bourbon barrel aged stout with chocolate, house-made black treacle and Thai chili peppers.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
4.43/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.43/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Not crazy black, perhaps clear hinted at red edges, all under a fairly short but level and sustained tan head.
It's all in the name: chocolate cake, but not cheap, made more dark by the treacle, semi-bitter and almost amaretto soaked, but without frosting.
The chili pepper and barrel work as one to add a light shock, but it doesn't burn all the way down, though a tingle of vanilla extract comes out on the exhale. My partner gets peanut buttery notes on the nose. Thai chli heat seems to wax and wane with every other sip, nothing crazy, and not building to an intolerable level, but intriguingly not predictable.
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Dang, normally Frog beers age well, but this is a shell of itself only a year later, where the spice has completely disappeared, and the cake components have revealed themselves to be that same goofy coffee bean or hazelnut popcorn flavoring that a lot of their pastry beers have become lately. If it had been like this at first crack, I'd have rated it lower. I can't ding it now, being aged, but it's disappointing.
May 27, 2025It's all in the name: chocolate cake, but not cheap, made more dark by the treacle, semi-bitter and almost amaretto soaked, but without frosting.
The chili pepper and barrel work as one to add a light shock, but it doesn't burn all the way down, though a tingle of vanilla extract comes out on the exhale. My partner gets peanut buttery notes on the nose. Thai chli heat seems to wax and wane with every other sip, nothing crazy, and not building to an intolerable level, but intriguingly not predictable.
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Dang, normally Frog beers age well, but this is a shell of itself only a year later, where the spice has completely disappeared, and the cake components have revealed themselves to be that same goofy coffee bean or hazelnut popcorn flavoring that a lot of their pastry beers have become lately. If it had been like this at first crack, I'd have rated it lower. I can't ding it now, being aged, but it's disappointing.
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