Spruce Tip Silk Porter
Hoppin' Frog Brewery
- From:
- Hoppin' Frog Brewery
- Ohio, United States
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 21, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 16, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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We gathered a crew of loyal followers and hand-picked an abundance of spruce tips to add to our Silk Porter. Their amazing flavor and aroma was captured nicely, adding an uplifting piney note to make one heck of a cool beer!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
3.98/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Spruce Tip Silk Porter from Hoppin’ Frog. Four-pack of 16 fl oz cans picked up at the brewery, 16/10/25 - $23.38 (Including tax and tip)/$ 0.365/fl oz. Reviewed 21/10/25, review 3616. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Bottom of can stamped “BEST BY JUN 27 2027.” Stored at home at 40 degrees F. Served at 41.9 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature is 53.4 degrees F.
Appearance – 4
First pour – Amber Brown (SRM 18), clear.
Body – Brown (SRM 30), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, same, with light penetrating at the edges, ruby brown.
Head – Average (Maximum 1.2 cm, aggressive center pour). Tan, high density, average retention, leaving a 0.2 – 0.4 cm crown and a thin partial cap.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 3.5 – Initially, virtually none - no hops, no malt, no alcohol, no piney resin. As it warms a bit (49.1 F), the spruce tips appear as does some slightly charred malt.
Flavor – 4.25 – Begins weakly sweet with mild piney resin – as it warms slightly, the spruce tips become more obvious. No hops, no malt, no alcohol (6.2 % ABV, according to the label). No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. Mild gastric warming.
Palate – 4 – Medium: Watery approaching creamy: Soft carbonation.
Style: Follows the vague BA description.
Final impression and summation: 4 Uncredited art work, basically the same as most of their cans. Very drinkable porter, slightly on the sweet side. The spruce tips make the flavor uniquely American, one might even say revolutionary. Fruit Fly ignored.
Oct 21, 2025Bottom of can stamped “BEST BY JUN 27 2027.” Stored at home at 40 degrees F. Served at 41.9 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature is 53.4 degrees F.
Appearance – 4
First pour – Amber Brown (SRM 18), clear.
Body – Brown (SRM 30), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, same, with light penetrating at the edges, ruby brown.
Head – Average (Maximum 1.2 cm, aggressive center pour). Tan, high density, average retention, leaving a 0.2 – 0.4 cm crown and a thin partial cap.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 3.5 – Initially, virtually none - no hops, no malt, no alcohol, no piney resin. As it warms a bit (49.1 F), the spruce tips appear as does some slightly charred malt.
Flavor – 4.25 – Begins weakly sweet with mild piney resin – as it warms slightly, the spruce tips become more obvious. No hops, no malt, no alcohol (6.2 % ABV, according to the label). No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. Mild gastric warming.
Palate – 4 – Medium: Watery approaching creamy: Soft carbonation.
Style: Follows the vague BA description.
Final impression and summation: 4 Uncredited art work, basically the same as most of their cans. Very drinkable porter, slightly on the sweet side. The spruce tips make the flavor uniquely American, one might even say revolutionary. Fruit Fly ignored.
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