Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout

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

2008 Black Wax Bottle thanks to mar and bhops. Tasted side by side with 2008 Darkness. Pours black and thick with a really dark brown heead that leaves good lacing. Soy sauce chocolate, maple syrup, flowery. Taste is syrupy as hell with a bit of very dark roast and sweetness from the chocolate and dark fruits. Syrupy mouthfeel, light carbonation. Great beer.

Bottle thanks to BHops and Mar. Dark black out pour that is extremely viscus in the glass and has a brown reddish color medium sized head. Nose is fudge, chocolate, earth, bacon, molasses, roasted coffee. Taste is the same with more meat smoke smoke and fudge. This beer is freaking awesome. Mouthfeel like oil.

2007 Bottle. Oil black pour with no head to speak of. Roast, molasses, hops, brown sugar, and pine resin on the nose. The above in the flavor with hints of vanilla and soy sauce. Full mouthfeel. Bitter and sweet finish. Very complex and enjoyable.

Starts with an aroma of dark fruits, chocolate, and roast. Pours a thick, opaque black, with just a quick dusting of chocolate head. Thick and creamy mouthfeel, nice and roasty flavor, finishes with a touch of sweetness. This beer actually leaves a film behind on the glass, a dark tan film that slowly merges into the glass. Overall a nice tasty beer.

2008 bottle. Stood in line for 3-1/2 hours for it. Pours a black that light can not penetrate. It is a black hole sucking up light around it, it’s so black. This is real motor oil looking. Pours out the same way oil looks when you pour it into your engine. Creamy chestnut brown head faded very quickly into a thin ring along the edge. There’s no lacing but you can tell by the smell that the molasses is gonna stick to everything! There’s a great smell of molasses and dark chocolate, plum, cinnamon, a hint of cherry and there is absolutely no coffee at all. You can also smell the 13% and it does smell amazingly delicious with all that sweetness coming up with it. This is the big boy of sippers. This beer is not for the faint of heart. you have to really be a serious Russian Imperial Stout lover to drink this beer. It’s as if someone angel had added steroids to a regular RIS recipe. Yes I said angel. This beer is how WE SHOULD ALL KNOW god exists and he wants us to be happy. Huge sweet molasses, caramel, dark bitter sweet chocolate up front, plum?/prune?, honey somewhere in the middle along with more chocolate (like frosting) and bourbon soaked cherry in the middle-end with a huge bite of sticky-gooey molasses in the very back of this bad ass MFer! Wow. And Wow again. So F’N good. This beer is surprising smooth for such a big hitter. It’s not completely full bodied but it’s very close. I think it’s a good thing because being just shy of full bodied may be why this is drinkable. It does feel like it has some thickness to it that can’t easily be split up even in your mouth. It’s what I imagined the feel (not taste) of motor oil would be. This beer is way to drinkable. And that’s both a problem and a good thing. It’s a problem because this beer isn’t available on your corner at your local store. So you savor each and every bottle and each and every sip, to the last drop. It’s limited production is what makes this beer amazing. See if I could buy this beer regularly, I’d want to drink it every day. I’d also want a steak and a huge piece of chocolate cake to help me get my fix. This beer is way too damn good! It’s like crack but in beer form. You just can’t get enough. And as soon as it’s gone, You want more, and more, and more. Can’t wait for this one to mature in my cellar. Man I’m already thinking of how to plan my next trip to DLD. This beer is top notch! Thank you Three Floyds! mmm mmm good!

’08 bottle poured a sludge like black with no head. The nose is rich with chocolate and roasted malt. The flavor is even richer and sweeter, making it a bit hard to drink more than a few ounces. Sticky and cloying mouthfeel. Sweet finish.

2008 bottle. Poured a dark black color. The head was a solid 1 finger and produced little lacing. The motor oil smelled delicious, complex as always. The roasted malt, coffee, vanilla, raisins, molasses, and dark unsweetened chocolate flavors melded and melted in my mouth with the perfect mouthfeel. This is one of the best balanced beers I’ve encountered. Always an A+

2008. Nice brown head that diminishes quickly. Full bodied, hearty, and strong. Great black color with hints of prune and a sweet finish.