Three Floyds Alpha Kong

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Munster, Indiana USA

Bottle #17 at Papsø’s blindtasting. Cloudy orange coloured with a medium sized off white head. Sweet and fruity aroma of caramel, dried fruits and vanilla. Sweet and fruity flavour of caramel, dried fruits, liquorice and alcohol with notes of oak. Warming alcoholic finish.

Bomber shared by GMCC2181, thanks Gabe! 05 vintage? Pours nearly flat ceptin for some small bubbles. Hazy orange hued ale. Nice fruity nose, sweet malts a touch bready and yeasty with noticeabke alcohol notes. Medium bodied, lightly oily and fairly lifeless. Sweet malt flavors, caramel, honey, fruit, citrus and bready undertones. Sweet finish, malty, gummy bears. Meh. Thanks for the shot Gabe!

From bottle, blind #17. Pours cloudy orange to dark orange with a small off-white head. Wineous and roasted malt aroma. Dense alcohol. Flavour too is burning alcohol all the way. Solid caramel, phenolic and slight spiced. Warming alcohol finish. lasting phenolic and spiced impression.

Bottle from stfun, thanks bro. This was the first beer in the line up... Nice orange color, no head.... Taste was simalar to a a Barleywine. Lots of malt... raisons... honestly nothing special about this beer, just a decent beer. Low carbonation....

In short: A brutal fruity extra-sweet extra-alcoholised brew with no class
How: Bottle 22oz. Consumed when around 1 year old. Tasting session with Montreal crew. Sent to me by drewbeerme, thanks a lot Andrew.
The look: Cloudy redish-copper body topped by a little off-white ring of foam
In long: A mega sweet nose (soft candies) with alcohol fumes that reach nail polish territory. Taste is fruity sugary-crunchy, like a sweetened breakfast jam mixed in caramel. Alcohol is not well hidden at all. Surprisingly yeasty. Cloying and way too aggressive. Avery make a few less fruity and equally atrocious brews like this. This is a rather expensive and hard to come-by brew, I don’t mind it being expensive, I just wish it was harder to come-by.

Bouteille de 22 oz partagée lors d’une dégustation Ratebeer Montréal chez Goldorak. Arôme: Odeur d’alcool et de caramel avec une pointe de vernis à ongle. Apparence: La couleur est ambrée. Présence d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de caramel fruité avec une pointe d’alcool. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture huileuse. Faible effervescence en bouche. Alcool chaleureux en arrière goût. (Rating #2400)

22oz bottle via trade a while back. Pours a cloudy rusty brown with pretty much no head. Tons of sweet caramel and candied fruits on the nose. Flavor was also very sweet with candied apricots, peaches, pears......pretty much every fruit under the sun was poking its head out. Finish was boozy, but not overwhelming.

My Bottom Line:
This monstrous brew’s thick oily mouthfeel carries heavyset caramel and honeyed sweetness upon which torrential alcohol rains, dousing bubblegum phenols in unnecessary heat.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A ring of foam circles the lightly hzy amber-copper.
-Higher alcohols approach nail polish territory at times.
-This would need to be dried out a lot more for me to consider it more than decent.
-Orange zest notes add some complexity, but are quickly overwhelmed by the caramel.
-All power and few subtleties; if I want this type of drink, I’ll go for rum.

Bottle.