Three Floyds BrooDoo

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Munster, Indiana USA

Bottle from Crown. Pours cloudy, murky, dark brown/orange. Good amount of malt on the nose, beating out the hop that’s there as well. Flavor is smooth nutty malt with a noticeable hop background. Pretty strong, heavy, full flavor. So ’heavy’ that it misses the ’refreshing’ aspect I’ve gotten from other Harvest Ales...maybe better fresh, I believe this was a year old. Still, worth a try.

Lemon, fresh grass, hoppy aroma. Orange-Amber, cloudy with nice lacing. Pine, mild caramel malts, and fruit flavours. Full bodied, tart, with lasting bitter finish.

Got to try a bottle of this last night thanks to "hannont" who brought some to my house last night. Colour... golden-orange with a thin off-white head. Nose... resinously piney hops with grapefruit to boot! Palate... woof! Initially a burst of sultry hops with sugar pine pitch and grapefruit zest, then a sweet coating of malt and a delightfully loooooooong finish!

22 oz. bottle - thanks after4ever; clear, dark copper with very thin white head; hop aromas are muted, but lots of malty sweetness; some candy flavors as well; bitter in the finish, but hop profile not that interesting overall; nice texture per the FFF MO

Pours a deep orange golden with a white lace. Aromas of candied sugar and some resinous hops. Pretty thick on the tongue, lots of caramel malts, very malty and not much hops. It would be nice with indian or spicy food, but was too unbalanced to me to be enjoyed by itself. Would like to try it freshly bottled.

In short: A smooth kick-ass leafy session IPA.
How: Bottle 22oz. 2009 harvest. Consumed fresh a few weeks after receiving it from Shawn213. Thanks a lot Shawn
The look: Almost clear golden body topped by a medium off-white head
In long: Pleasant hoppy nose with a leafy signature. Body is as full and lively as one can hope from a 5.5% IPA. Lively almost Belgian-ish carbonation. Solid toasted caramelized malt backbone with a light cookie flavour. Nothing heavy here as far as the malts are concerned and perfectly appropriate for the hops profile. Leafy hops, floral and citrusy notes, dry grass, more. Flavourful juicy/leafy bitterness of medium intensity. Very tasty but never aggressive this is a highly sessionnable beer. Came through a lot more leafy than the average american IPA. Almost like a cross between an american IPA and an boosted English IPA. Another kick-ass hoppy beer from 3F. These guys really know how to make hoppy beer. If only GM could make compact cars like 3F make hoppy beer things would be quite different right now. They’d be in even worse financial situation but we’d have some tasty cars.

Received as a part of the awesome BIF Race 2009 box from alleykatking, Broodoo poured clear orange, like seveal other Three Floyds offerings that I remember. The head was two finger thick, and foamy, and the carbonation in the underlying body appeared subdued. The aroma was leafy and herbal hops, and caramel malt. The taste was spicy herbal, followed by a some toasted grain, and finishing bittersweet. The feel was a bit oily and slightly metallic. This was easy to drink, but lacked the super fresh feel I expect from a harvest ale.

Bottle in motel room in middle-of-nowhere Indiana. Pours clear copper with a nice rocky beige head. Aroma is funky pineapple, grapefruit, grass, and biscuit malts. Taste is tea, orange, grass, and caramel. Bitter tropical/citrus finish.