Three Floyds Black Sun Stout

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

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.

Black pour with a tight off white head. Aroma of hops and some sweet malts. Hoppy aroma not really expected from the pour. Taste is roasted with sweet malts and a light, dry, hop finish. Some coffee present. Mouth is prettty thin for a stout. But a good brew all around.

2-3-08 bottle shared at tasting
Thick black in color. Nice sweet hoppy malt smell. Tastes decent - not the best from Three Floyds, but no doubt another good solid brew. Palate is a bit tricky - highly carbonated and very thin and somewhat watery. However, the flavor of hops and sweet malt makes up for it.

Pours black, with a light tan head and a smell of dry roastiness with nicely noticeable hop nose which you don’t generally expect from the style, and which almost gives in a minty freshness. Taste is roasty, mild, and dry with a subtle and simple hop flavor giving it a bit of added flavor. Very drinkable, I found, and although not groundbreaking, I thought it was exceptional for the style, albeit overpriced...

Bottle. Nose shows lots of hops, oddly because none show up in the flavor profile, with a touch of coffee. Black with a thick beige head. Nice classic dry stout flavors, lightly sweet with a milky palate and lots of roasted malt character. Really great example of the style.