Hoppin' Frog Mean Manalishi

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottle shared by Dallas and Bonnie, thanks
Appearance: Clear amber with a medium off-white head and some lacing
Aroma: Tropical fruit and pine resin
Taste: Fruity, caramel and pine resin
A nice DIPA, lots of bitterness with some caramel to help balance it out.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Crizay hooked me up with this juicy IIPA via trade, thanks buddy. Pours a perfect copper with frothy tan head. The aroma has a mild strength to it containing really fresh Cascade hops. It almost smells like it has been wet hopped. I get grapefruit, orange rind and a faint malt sweetness. The taste is very refreshing with mostly semi sweet grapefruit hop flavor and also bitterness. Then mild maltiness shows up briefly and mixes in with green (wet) Cascade hops. As the finish draws in the grapefruit bitterness builds. The after taste leaves mild grapefruit hop bitterness as well as a hint of malt sweetness. There was no sense of the 8.2% ABV. This is a big hoppy beer that just hits the spot. Nicely done.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

Sampled in a green glass, from a bottle at the Bocktown. Looks like a slightly darker pale yellow american lager, I think. Big hoppy floral aroma with mashed pine needles. A taste impact of bitter soap, I think I accidentally sampled the men’s room hand soap container, better turn up the lights. This style is not my cup of tea but this beer is an excellent example of this dreaded style. Barely any carbonation. An insult to the tender buds of the lager lover. Very bitter lingering over the top finish, get me a chaser of Old heathen. OK, IPA lovers, you can smile since my whole face is puckered.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Ample bitterness but too much malt and booze for my tastes. More bArleywine like than iipa, except for the very very strong bitter aftertaste. Lacking the florals or citrus or pine that a good ipa has to have. I don't mind balance, but this was too heavy. Tasted and smells like an older ipa, but it was just released to the area...

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

You can hear the mouthfeel as you pour. Dark amber colour pour with a huge head that sticks and leaves loads of lacing. Malt presence accompanies the 168 ibu and balances out well. Strong pine flavour. Good, different. Bordering barleywine territory.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Good beer from hoppin frog, not as good as the imp stouts but very solid. A little over clouded, but otherwise classic orange with thick head. Big citrus and little resin nose. Flavor is a bit sweet but still good, enough strong hop flavor to keep it fairly in line.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottle from Centerville Carryout in OH. Amber pour with lots of sediment and floaties, thus the poor appearance score. Aromas of heavy citrus and pineapple hops, some pine, malts. Taste is upfront big bitter - pine, apricots, pineapples - offset by almost syrupy sweet and heavy malts. Dry finish. Big beer, will revisit a fresher bottle. Still love me some Hoppin' Frog.

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

22oz bottle. Pours a hazy amber tea color with a medium creamy off white head that retains well and laces the glass.

The aroma is bready sugary caramel malts, and fruity piney, resiney, hops.

The flavor is sweet sugary fruity caramel malts followed by a big resiney piney bitterness that lingers in the aftertaste. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with slightly sharp carbonation.

Overall, a very nice DIPA. It's not at all balanced, but is a nice hop bomb.

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

Strong aroma is richly hoppy and evergreen with a firm undertone of grapefruit. It pours a beautiful clear copper with a thick, fine-bubbled, fairly persistent head. Richly hoppy flavor has a hint of grapefruit and is only a teensy bit bitter - in fact, there is a whisper of honey sweetness. Texture is lively and fizzy, fairly dancing in the mouth and leaving the lips a-tingle. A must for IPA lovers.

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

Thanks to LambTaco from Reddit. Very good, super hoppy DIPA. My only criticism of this beer is that there is so much hop bitterness that it loses a bit of the more delicate hop flavors when you drink it. These more delicate notes are present, so it’s not just a bitter hop bomb, but they’re a bit overpowered, particularly in the finish. The hop aroma is citric and floral with neither note really dominating. It’s a very strong aroma. There’s a little bit of paint thinner astringency and rubbing alcohol harshness around the edges. The flavor is very bitter and, I think, dry. It’s hard to taste anything but the hops and since I can’t appreciate any malt sweetness, I’m assuming its dry. The beer is mildly difficult to drink but in a good way - well, good if you love hops, but if you don’t love hops, you’re drinking the wrong beer. The beer is darker than it really needs to be, not like you can really taste the crystal malt Although MM utilizes different hop strains, it reminds me of a lesser known beer, Iron Springs Casey Jones, another completely over-the-top hop bomb. Good stuff.