Hoppin' Frog 15th Anniversary Ale

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Expensive 12oz can pours with a mahogany colored body that supports no head at all, just air. The aroma pulses with booze from feet away. On closer inspection I get notes of booze soaked fig, brown sugar dusted raisins, some molasses and a faint sense of kettle caramelization toward the end of the draw. The next whiff is inexplicably largely just boozy bourbon barrel character. Smells fine. The taste delivers a fairly luscious full body across the palate in spite of the barrel treatment, nice! I get molasses drenched figs, prunes and a bit of date plowing slowly toward the reduced sugars of molasses and a faint sense of caramel. To midway a supple bourbon barrel booziness bubbles to the surface and mingles seamlessly with the tasty beer flavors. Wow, this is a great sipper with great balance and depth and a pleasing mild boozy warming sensation into the after taste. I may need more of this.