Three Floyds Apocalypse Cow

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Munster, Indiana USA

2 22 oz bombers acquired via two different trades. This beer comes out a very dark orange with a thick and creamy white head and awesome lacing. Aroma is mostly hops, but what a plethora of hop aromas it is! Starts out with pine and grapefruit, but a deeper whiff reveals pineapple and orange lurking beneath them. There is also a mild lactic smell, but it’s buried in the mix. The flavor is huge pine and citrus hops with more of the lactic presence here, and in a slightly thicker mouthfeel than you’d expect from the style. I was a little skeptical of this beer because I wasn’t sure how the lactose would work in an IPA, but this was a standout and yet another thing I’ve very much enjoyed from FFF.

Bottle from stfun, thanks josh! Poured into a snifter, nice orange color, small head. Good aroma of pine and citrus. Taste is the same, lots of citrus and a big pine taste. Light fruitiness. Well balanced. Clean and crisp. Easy to drink for a 9.5% beer. Overall, I could drink this all the time...A good DIPA with probably the coolest beer label of all time.

Hazy golden with a small, white head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of floral hops, pine, citrus fruits, orange peel, , toffee, and toasted malts. Taste of piney resin, citrus fruits, orange peel, caramel malts, and lactose, with quite a big mouthfeel, and some alcohol. Thanks warriorsoul!

Pours a hazy golden amber with a medium bubbly off white head. Aroma was loads of citrusy hops, foral, oats, pine, caramel and toasted malt. Flavor of pine, floral and citrusy hops, caramel, great hop flavor and bitterness. 3F does it again! Great bottle art too.

22 ounce bottle thanks to pantanap, what a odd label. Pours a clear copper color with a medium white head that goes down a bit. The aroma is super sweet caramel, fresh citrus hops, toffee, perfume-like. The flavor is great; sweet orange peel, rich caramel, toffee and light bitterness around the edges. Close to what I’d call a traditional Barley Wine- and very good. Very drinkable as well. Nice.

Bottle from my man Eithcubes. Pours a clear light orange color with no head. Big on the sweetness her with a finish that is bordering on that rubbing alcohol line. Unfortunately those are the first impressions. After focusing a little harder I’m getting a pretty pleasant grassy and floral nose. Faint grapefruit citrus hop flavors mid palate. Preceeded by a big caramel malt body and almost heath bar kind of toffeness. Bordering on the barleywine side of the spectrum and would love a bigger hop presence but I’m not going to kick this out of bed.

My Bottom Line:
This portly Double IPA relies on a titillating citrusy and floral hop signature to enliven its almost thickset honeyed cereals.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A slice of foam surfs the nearly clear amber.
-This is another wonderful IPA perfume from the guys at Three Floyd’s.
-The finishing resinous hop bitterness is quite pleasant.
-This is not as polished as their Dreadnaught, and perhaps less drinkable as well.
-The prickly carbonation is comfortable on the tongue, helping to alleviate some of the body’s heft.

Bottle.

Bottle courtesy of HOPSHUNTER. Thanks for hunting this one down. Pours deep gold with copper hues and thin white head. The aroma is full of pine hops, a bit of resin and grassiness as well. There’s light notes of sweet sugary malts too. The taste begins with a quick pulse of sweet malts moving into bold pine and resiny hop bitterness where the sweet malts just don’t let go or give up in the face of all those hops. It gets sticky with malts well beneath the onslaught of hoppy resiny goodness. The touch of malts and lactose add very nicely to the big bold pine, grassy, a bit resiny and grapefruit like hop soup. Wow! Terrific IIPA.