Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA

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

Wow, this one is intense, and so tasty. Just loads of hops on the nose and in the flavor, but not as unbalanced as I expected. There’s real malt body to back it up. One of the best DIPAs I’ve ever had.

22oz. trade from StFun. pours copper with small head. aroma is caramel and pineapple. mouthful is very well balanced and yummy. finish is crisp and leave my mouth watering for more. not much bitterness, just yumminess.

Bottle with big time thanks to TearsforBeers! It’s been 4yrs since I started searching for this beer. Aroma has notes of citrus and tropical fruits, caramel malts. Medium, slightly hazy, orange amber hue with a small mostly diminishing off-white head that left some lace. Flavor is sweet and sticky with a decent bitter finish that dosent linger. Palate is full bodied and oily soft. Just amazing. Fantastic fruity aroma and taste with great sticky caramel malts and nice clean finish. The best DIPA of my life!

22oz bottle. A nice cloudy amber color pour with a thick white fluffy head that hangs around a while,lots of nice lacing left all the way down the glass. Aroma of hops,resin, high alpha hops such as citrus, peach, melon,and pine,with some sweet malty notes coming through.Flavor is awesome very fat and hoppy,you can feel the bitterness in your cheeks,piny,fruity hops and a nice sweet caramel,toffee malt backbone to balance things out. Very smooth mouthfeel,a little sticky. Nice bitter hop finish and just slightly boozy. Top shelf stuff for sure, one of my new favorites.

Just another ho hum unbelievable beer from Three Floyds. Perfect balance for a double IPA. The great thing about the double IPA category is that you can get so many different experiences from a single style. To appreciate the category, one should acquire a taste for better IPAs first.

Bottle from Jamvin23. Pours golden orange with an off white head. Sweet hoppy aroma, with fruity citrus, grapefruit, and fresh flowers. The flavor is actually relatively well balanced. Loads of citric and floral hops, but enough malt to make it not overpowering. Fruity flourishes add a nice sweet complexity. The finish was hoppy but not palate destroyingly bitter. I actually found this very easy to drink, quite enjoyable. Not the palate destoyer that I expected, but a very drinkable and accessible IIPA.

Sample @ EBF ’09 - Whoa. Pours a hazy orange color with a smallish white head. Aroma is incredibly hoppy, with pine, citrus, mango, and peach detectable. Taste is pine up front, with mango, peach, and citrus detectable in there. It finishes with a vicious hop bite, almost like the beer was mocking me for being so unworthy of it. I absolutely loved it, and I’m deeply disappointed I can’t get it around my area.

Bottle shared by Daknole. Thank you! Pours hazy deep apricot-orange color. Smells slightly oxidized. Thick and hot with wafting pineapple. Lots of earthy and pine hop notes. Pretty chewy and high gravity feel. Herbal, with fir and basil. Quite a masculine IPA.