Three Floyds Black Sun Stout

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: Dry Stout
Munster, Indiana USA

Thanks Jerel and/or Jean! Pours a dark brown to black with a decent enough tan head, thinning over time. The nose is sweeter than most dry stouts, with strong enough roast, and stronger hops, ala FFF. The mouthfeel is a bit thicker than a dry stout, welcome, for sure! The flavors are in line with the nose. This is a hopped up stout. A bit less dry than most for the style, that Amarillo hop FFF bite, but at the end, a fine stout, perhaps not $8 fine, but I wouldn’t hold that against the beer.

Black color with a creamy tan head. Aromas of dark fruit, chocolate, molasses and coffee with a hint of hops. Taste isof coffee and chocolate with some dark fruit and a medium hop flavor.

Bomber, thanks to TomDecapolis! Pours almost clear black with a lacy tan head. Medium-light body. Chocolate pine nose. Coffee, chocolate and brown sugar taste. Chocolate and grapefruit finish -which sounds weird after the fact, but was really nice.

22. Thanks, BitBucket! Black, thin tan head. Big chocolate nose. Nice creamy medium body. Chocolate and roast on themid-palate with just a little bit of hop on the back end to balance it out. Mild dry cocoa finish.

pours black with no head. sweet, woody, slightly medicinal aroma. sweet & piney flavor with a good medicinal bite. finishes a touch too sweet for my taste. but this light-bodied brew is definitely worth trying from one of the best brewers in the world. maybe i got a bit too rah-rah there,. sorry. (love you floyd, floyd and floyd).

Thanks to JCapriotti for the bomber. Pours deep brown with a smallish head. Aroma of coffee, licorice, roasty malts and huge pine hops. Dry, without a lot of dark fruit. Medium bodied and surprisingly drinkable. I’m obviously getting a little more used to highly hopped stouts. (This doesn’t totally suck)

Bomber courtesy of tjthresh. This is a very cool looking bottle, probably my favorite label for a 3F brew. It pours black with a dense, creamy, tan head. Picture perfect. The nose is an interesting and fairly enticing blend of: coffee, roast malt, piny hops, bing cherries and faint chocolate. Light to medium-bodied and fairly aqueous, it transitions to a lightly dry and mildly bitter finish. It is a bit thinner than I’d expected, but it is supremely quaffable. Sweet, dark roast and coffee are followed quickly by floral and lightly piny hops and notes of caramel, cherries and light chocolate, very much like the nose. Quite nice and beautifully balanced. This is easily my favorite dry stout and one of the most flavorful and drinkable stouts that I have tried. It combines the thinner quaffability of Guinness with the flavor of a 3F brew. Three Floyds may be famous for Dark Lord and Dreadnaught (both excellent beers), but they continually impress me with the quality of their session brews. Thanks a million for bringing this one back from the brewery, Tom!

Bomber pours out dark brown and opaque. Nice khaki head that laces well. Pungent aroma of pine resin hops and chocolate. Citrusy grapefruit underneath. Creamy medium body is lighter than most stouts but improves drinkability. Taste has a spruce pine bitterness that is edged by grapefruit notes. A hint of roast bitterness is lost in the wave of hops. Dark chocolate notes try to assert throughout. Finishes dry. Certainly one of the hoppiest stouts out there and one of my favorites.