Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA

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

Orange color with a thin head. Plenty of hop aroma. Balanced flavor with some pretty decent alcohol heat. I am not going crazy over this stuff, but its very easy drinking for an imperial. 6/3/7/3/15

RERATE: 6 Month Old Bottle. Pour is mellon colored, clear and with no head. Aroma is rich citrus and pine. Complex and attractive. The flavor is fresh on the tongue, citrus, grapefruit, pine, and a touch of sugary sweetness. Body is crisp, clean and refreshing for a beer of this strength. Much better than I remembered. 9/3/9/5/18

Sampled multiple times at Bretopia. 9.5%?!?! No wonder!. Clear golden with a white head. Nice hoppy aroma. Big hop flavor component. A little less in the bitterness. Big and sticky. Gave me the "hop burps".

[fresh 08 bottle 3.20.08] Pours reddish clear amber with no bubbles and a small white head. Huge piney, mango, pineapple, stingy hop aroma and some smooth malt, only complaint is some alcohol in the nose. IIPA’s are suppose to big and bold and reckless, but this stuff is very nicely refined. Lots of tropical fruits, very sweet too, this stuff is juicier than a starburst. The bitterness of the hops come out in the finish. The finish also has lots of mango in it. Smooth, very slightly chewy, body and carbonation. Now I have to try this next to Goose’s IIPA. Surprisingly, the hops flavor isn’t as clear as it is in Alpha King. 9.5.10.5.19 [Rerate fresh 09 bottle - 2.23.09] Pours a glowing clear dark orange, looks sugary, with a medium/small frothy head. That 09 hop smell... dirty green earthy plant-like bitter grass, lesser citrus that 08, not as piney or resiny either. Very very good but nowhere near what it was last year... last year the hop oils attacked my mouth into a tingling frenzy. The hops are a bit green and bitter plant like, not nearly as much citrus as last year. The malts are right, smooth sugary caramel and light honey. Medium bodied, smooth with softer larger carbonation with a slight bite, it is sugary without feeling sugary. 8.5.8.5.15

22 oz bomber. Ok the front of my bottle says "Imperial I.P.A." but the side reads "Dreadnaught is a massive American Pale Ale brewed....." so what the hell is this beer supposed to be if the brewers don’t even know?? Well I think it’s an Impy IPA that is close to a year old so all those beautiful hops have mellowed to a fond memory that only the brewers know about. This is still a damn fine beer that poured an orangy/ amber color with only a small white head that came from a rather vigorous pour. Aroma is caramel malts with only slight hops remaining. Flavor follows suite with initial malt flavors and only a slight bitterness but it is a very enjoyable flavor none the less.

Hey, do you like getting smacked in the face? How about by a beer? Ya, you do! Who's your Daddy? Dreadnaught! That's who! To start off, how anyone can finish a entire bomber of this stuff without being smashed in the face by the massive amount of hops in this beer is beyond human. Ahhh, but it was a pure pleasure to let this beer slap me around for an hour and a half as I nursed the hell out of it. Color is a chill hazed peachy toned orange with a spongy frothed bone white head thats about an inch high and settles moderately down to a hazey top with some bigger bubbles that never leave the edge and the lace lays across the glass in sheets that diminish into strings and spots. Aroma is absolutely wonderful, super fresh and floral, I'm talking right off the vine and right in your nostrils and down your throat fresh hop cones here. Big floral presense and a nice mix of pine needles and hop resin and acidic hoppyness with a smidge of grapefruit and a super fine toasty caramel malt backing. Alcohol warmth hits slowly as it warms. Tasting this is like liquidfied hops or something, super amounts of very floral and fresh resinated hops all up in your business. Complexing floral hops taking total control of your senses and making you recognize its presense as you prepare yourself sip after sip for the next wave. Super full of hops, almost too much, its crazy but absolutely wonderful to behold. The bitterness is quite calming actually, its just a whole lot of fresh; light pine and grapefruit rinds play along the surface with some juicy factions right away in the front, but the largely floral aspect then blooms over the palette and relinquishing it over and over as you surrender to its spellbinding hoppy hold leading through huge fields and tall vines of freshly picked hops eventually leading you back to a quick crispy little hop finish and backing up every sip is a remarkable toasty little caramel malt. Some notes of wood and earth strike the palette in some of the finish as well. Full mouthfeel throughout, each ambrosial sip and heavenly gulp is packed full of hoppy flavor and body. So much so its embarassingly hard to drink. This a big time sipper for me. Perhaps somewhere down the line in time this may become something I could get use to. This just wasn't that drinkable for me. Don't get me wrong, it was incredibly, delightfully, pleasurably, enjoyable to get pushed around by this whale of a beer.

Shared with John from Churchkey and a few others, Dark amber colornose is ALL hops!!!! flavor is similar but nicely balanced juicy hops with some malts there in the back to balance it, fantastic brew.

Deep amber color and hazy with a creamy off-white head. Aroma is of orange peel and floral hops. Tastes of oranges, grapefruit and hops. Very pleasantly smooth for an IPA!

Enjoyed at the Rotten Apple. What a nice beer. So much floral stuff going on in both aroma and flavor. Plenty of pine, too. And so nicely balanced by caramel. Another outstanding beer from Three Floyds.