B.O.R.I.S. The Crusher Oatmeal-Imperial Stout
Poured from a 22 oz bottle into a pint glass. Pours midnight dark; light cannot penetrate this beast. Pours with a 1/4" tan head that reduces to a thin blanket cover keeping it warm. Has a warm roasted aroma, coffee, toffee, even a little vanilla extract. Smells like dessert, with a hint of alcohol warmth to its smell. Tastes of dark currants, apples, dark chocolate, and roasted coffee beans, with alcohol warming its descent. Sweet, yet toasted in flavor. A nice nippy hop flavor finishes it, grabbing the tongue with slight astringency. This is a thick-tasting beer, rich and full in the mouth. I have other Hopping Frog beers already in the cellar (they're easy pickings around here, given that it is an Akron brewery), otherwise I'd get another the next time I was out.