Hoppen-Daz: Mochaccino
Bur Oak Brewing Company

pours amber brown with good head - nice malty cherry tastes

 

Had Hoppen-Daz Mochaccino poured from 12-oz. can, no date, into willi becher.

Pours deep amber-brown with 2-finger very light-tan head, with decent retention, dropping to a persistent ring, but leaving very little lace. Aroma of sweet chocolate and floral hops off pour, with floral aromas continuing, and then some roast malts and coffee, and as warms a little dark fruit. Begins sweet and creamy chocolate coffee, over moderate carbonation, with mild roasted coffee and malts soon manifesting, and some dark fruit, before a dry, balanced finish.

There is minimal roasted quality for a porter, especially a coffee porter, and an interesting use of noble hops. I enjoyed both aspects of this beer, but I'm not the biggest fan of porters.

This one has been hanging out in the beer fridge for several months, and I finally got around to trying it. Dark brown in color with a murky quality. Off-white foam with a bit of lace, but not a lasting head. The smell is sweet…I get cocoa, vanilla, and caramel. The taste is lightly sweet, with just enough bitterness to balance. Nice carbonation. It is a bit too sweet for me, but not bad.

12 oz can, w/o freshness indication

Pours out looking like a robust and darker brown ale, minimal cap and lacing left on the glass.

Milk chocolate sniff.

Pleasing and chocolate and mocha infused porter, on the thicker side, but not really exhibiting a “milk shake” vine…better then decent and well worth a try

 

12 oz can, no date printed, into THAT! NE IPA snifter.

The crack of the can brings some caramel-blonde liquid seeping to the lip, and pours a similar color. In whole, it forms a dark brown-black. The head starts at a finger but fizzes like cola to nothing.

Aroma from the can is english brown malt, farty cacao nib, porter/stout yeast trub, and a hint of caramel. Aroma from the glass is a lighter version of that with some roasted malt added in.

Flavor is farty cacao nib, burnt coffee, malted milk ball, perfume, and a finish of what I can only describe as chocolate bubble gum. There's also a note of astringent alcohol heat. This is not a beer I will finish. The bubble gum and milk ball build as it is (torturously) sipped more.

Feel is medium-full with lots of busy carbonation, lots of alcohol heat (you feel the whole 6%), and finishes buzzy and dry with starch on the tongue.

Overall, apart from Stout Heart, Bur Oak has been trash for me. The Hoppen-Daz series is especially bad. I may give the series one more try before I'm done with them, but I fear it will be much the same the next time around.

Price paid : $1.89 / can
Would buy again : no

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12oz can. Poured out an opaque, jet-black color with a small, cream-colored head of foam. It smelled of chocolate, milk, coffee and toffee. Lots of sweet milk chocolate with coffee and roasted malt.