Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA

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

22oz bottle. Pours a slightly cloudy light orange body with a thin, off-white, fizzy head that dissipates quickly, but remains pretty heavily laced. Aroma is soft caramel malts and lots of grapefruit hops. I pick up a little of the mango they claim, but not really the peach. Pine needle spicy. The flavor is loaded with juicy and sweet grapefruit hops. Decent amount of balancing honeyish malts, but definitely hop dominated. Soapy feel and very piney. Palate is medium to full and dries in the finish before lingering with a lot of citrus bitterness. Overall, a well crafted DIPA. Love the sweetness and intense hoppiness with a very sessionable body. Delicious.

Bottle pours a cloudy orange with no head. A swirl of the glass shows the thickness of this IIPA as it clings to the glass. Aroma is hoppy yeilding citrus notes of mango and orange. The flavor is intially sweet with hints of caramel malts, peach, and pine. Finishes with a bitter hoppiness. Mouthfeel is unusally thick and coating for an IIPA.

bottle from sqnfan poured into a tulip glass has a light orange amber color and a one finger white head that laced down the glass nicely. aroma has juicy pineapple, citrus hops, grapefruit, pine, and some balancing malt. like a sweet citrus grove in a bottle, yum. mouth feel is light with full frothing carbonation. flavor just explodes right out of the gate. lemon rind, grapefruit, pine, and a complementing touch of bitter hops. there is a good dose of sweetness and it finishes with a long duration of hoppyness.

Courtesy MrBunn. 1.5 year old bomber. ohmy is it good. Nose of pineapple caramel orange and grapefruit...pours a milky orange with a very thin head. Strong flavor of caramel and grapefruit with some pine thrown in. this beer is number 6 in the 4 day Arkansas trip second night. palate is smooth creamy with a spot on carbonation. flippin great.

Picked up the Last bottle in Woodmans in Onalaska. Pours a orangish color with hints of red. Aroma of pine, earth and different fruits. Bitterness is easy to handle and alchol isnt very present. Very grassy, earthy, and citris flavors. The best double ipa i have had and easily one i could drink all day.

Bottle aged for about 9 months. Pours a brilliant orange-red with foamy off-white head, which dissipates after a couple minutes. Gorgeous fruity nose with notes of peach, mango, pineapple, orange, and lemon, balanced out with earthy, and biscuity malts and a caramel backbone. The bitterness has been subdued by the aging, but resiny citrus oils still linger throughout. Really nice biscuit, and caramel malt notes, combined with some delicate earthy-tea flavors that seem to show up in most of the 3F offerings I have tasted. Piney at the finish. Extremely drinkable and nearly perfect.

On tap a brewpub. Huge nose of cirtus and typical 3F hops. Nice bitterness throughout with just enough of a malt feel to bring a small amount of balance to the brew. Great example of an IIPA, you can’t go wrong here.

22oz bottle pours a cloudy dark orange amber with a 1/2 inch off white head. Minimal retention, but some foam and a collar do remain. Not much lacing. Aromas of pine resin, floral hops, some malt, and some citrus hop notes as well (grapefruit). Flavors of hops...duh, pine, resin and I actually get a decent dose of malt here. I have no idea how fresh this bottle is, but i imagine it could be fresher. Overall it was great, but i still feel it was missing something.