Fur Slipper
HopFusion Ale Works

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From:
HopFusion Ale Works
 
Texas, United States
Style:
Sweet / Milk Stout
Ranked #432
ABV:
8.63%
Score:
87
Ranked #17,770
Avg:
3.84 | pDev: 8.59%
Reviews:
9
Ratings:
34
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 04, 2024
Added:
Dec 31, 2016
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  4
Silky smooth with notes of roasted hazelnut, dark chocolate and toffee; our Fur Slipper is a fusion of the traditional Milk Stout with the rich tones of a Russian Imperial.
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Ratings by BoozerBrad:
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Rated by BoozerBrad from Texas

3.85/5  rDev +0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75

Jan 23, 2020
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 5 by mbrandes62 from Tennessee

Mar 04, 2024
 
Rated: 4 by cryptichead from Illinois

Apr 02, 2023
 
Rated: 3.74 by Luckydog91 from Texas

May 06, 2021
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Reviewed by Mark-Leggett from Missouri

4.35/5  rDev +13.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a can. Very dark in color with a foamy tan head. Smells of roasted grain and chocolate. Flavors of roasted grain, malt, milk chocolate and ends slightly smokey. Creamy mouth feel, full flavor, really good.
Nov 06, 2020
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Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas

3.84/5  rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Hop fusion Fur Slipper (4.25, 4, 3.75, 3.75, 3.75)

Poured from a can into a pint glass

Appearance – The beer pours a deep brown color with a billowy head of brown colored foam. The head has a good level of retention, fading slowly over time and leaving a ton of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.

Smell – The aroma of the brew is very strong of a roasted malt smell mixed with aromas of crème and milk chocolate. Along with these aromas comes some notes of brown sugar and molasses as well as a little bit of coffee and char.

Taste – The taste begins with a sweet molasses and brown sugar flavor that is backed by lots of roasted malt. At the start that is a rather decent showing of some woody and char flavors as well, with some notes of milk chocolate mixed within. As the flavors advance the milk chocolate gets slightly stronger in nature, all while the molasses fades a bit. At the end, there is a little bit of vanilla and more milk that joins the taste profile, and with a bit of booziness, it ends up leaving one with a roasted and moderately sweet warming taste to linger on the tongue.

Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is rather thick and creamy with a carbonation level that is low. For the roasted malt, lighter milk chocolate, and bits of char and wood, the feel is rather nice and makes for an easy and delicious sipper.

Overall – Not as heavy on the milky flavors as I would have anticipated initially. Its got a decent roasted malt kick with some sweetness to back it up. Overall a decent stout.
Sep 09, 2020
 
Rated: 3.72 by 10Crumra from Texas

Jul 19, 2020
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Reviewed by brewerburgundy from West Virginia

3.99/5  rDev +3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12oz can, wine glass, no date just “the great escape” on the bottom.

Oily brown with just a bit of garnet at the bottom of the glass. A chocolate brown head builds quickly and just as quickly dissipated leaving just an oil slick and fingernail thin ring of bubbles.

Chocolate syrup, graham crackers, toasty and roasty malts, milk chocolate.

It coats the mouth with that Hershey’s syrup malty milk chocolate stickiness, it’s quite a sweet beer. The finish has welcome dark roast malt bitterness and burnt flavors and even a little herbal hop.

It’s relatively thin for a stout, but the coating, sticky texture makes up for it. The carbonation is medium-high, but works.

This a core beer for one of my favorite local breweries. Imperial Milk Stouts seem to be popular in north Texas for some reason and Fur Slipper pours with the best of them.
Apr 06, 2020
 
Rated: 4.25 by Bryan12345 from Texas

Apr 26, 2019
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Reviewed by Zorro from California

3.82/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
Black colored beer with a large brown colored head.

Smells sweet and of chocolate and charred malt. Smells of chocolate and more faintly of berries. Not a whole lot of subtle scent underneath though.

Starts out rich and on the sweet side with lots of charred malt with an after taste of ash. Big chocolate flavor. Tastes a bit like chocolate syrup, it is quiet a sweet beer. Pretty much it, sweet chocolate.

Mouthfeel is genuinely thick.

Overall a tasty yet sweet beer. Not a chance you would notice it is 8.63% Alcohol.
Apr 14, 2019
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Reviewed by Alex_Actually from California

3.41/5  rDev -11.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Poured into a snifter. At first glance, the head after pouring was very thin and lacing was nonexistent. Hazelnut came through in the aroma, with the chocolate being dominant. This followed in the taste, with the chocolate a bit overbearing, though the hazelnut was barely noticable. Feel was very thin and watery for a stout. While overall I wouldn't call myself disappointed, it's certainly not what I'd call a great beer.
Mar 10, 2019
 
Rated: 3.75 by Karibourgeois from Texas

Feb 13, 2019
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Colorado

3.13/5  rDev -18.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Hazelnut hardly comes through. It's a pretty basic but competent milk stout.

Just buy Left Hand and save yourself the disappointment.

C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
Jan 11, 2019
 
Rated: 3.86 by Pro_Magnon from Texas

Oct 09, 2018
 
Rated: 4 by jeschaefer from Texas

Oct 08, 2018
 
Rated: 4 by a77cj7 from South Dakota

Sep 27, 2018
 
Rated: 3.86 by gobuccos from Ohio

Sep 23, 2018
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Rated by Agriverbear from Texas

3.46/5  rDev -9.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pretty unremarkable stout. Really sweet and over done on chocolate. Almost no head or lacing on pour.
Aug 20, 2018
 
Rated: 3.96 by rsuarez1982 from Texas

Aug 13, 2018
 
Rated: 3.81 by MI_beerdrinker from Texas

May 01, 2018
Fur Slipper from HopFusion Ale Works
Beer rating: 87 out of 100 with 34 ratings