Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA

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

Bottle courtesy Kmeves. Pours a nice amber copper color with a thick white head. Perfect carbonation. Lots of citrusy, pine aroma balanced by a nice amount of malt. Really hoppy, grapefruit juice taste with some malt peaking through. A big grapefruit dryness, also, that comes through a lot in the aftertaste. Dry hoppy bitter with a sneaky alcohol content, wow I liked this.

My favorite iipa, I often forget how great it is, until I pop it. It pours a beautiful light copper with a tall beige head. One of the best aromas grapefruit, pine, carmel, and florals. That near perfect combination can make a man cry. Really full bodied smooth, slick, carmel, great hop blend that’s really grapefruity and a little pine floral tasting with a nice but not overlydone bitter finish. Its not the hop bomb its sometimes accused of being, but a well balanced and when fresh a near perfect IIPA. 10/4/9/5/18 = 4.6

On many many many re-drinks, this beer has become quite unpredictable in the last couple years. Very recent batch out of the bottle was dominated with a toffee malt that hardly showcased the hops and tasted like a bigger alpha king. It really just got worse as I sipped down. Less than a week later at the maproom on tap it was fresh bitter citrus, grapefruit and malt, nearly as good as it used to be. The past years have brought me to believe it is the bottling, but none the less, too inconsistent. A great beer that has always been one of my favorites, I wish it would always be as good as it can be. 9/4/8/5/16 = 4.2

orange/red color, a color i havent seen much in beer. aroma is citrus, BIG citrus, lots of grapefruit! love it! flavour is all grapefruit, orange, lemon, with a butt load of hops!! finish is VERY bitter, easily the best IPA i have ever had.

An Amazing IPA all the way !! Pours a dark copper color with a rich pine, floral, grapefruity scent to it. The taste gets better with every sip. Three Floyds keeps putting out world class beers. 8/10/07 Pours a cloudy orange copery color with a small white head. Faint aroma of what once was a tremendous amount of piney hops and mango. Where did this wonderful aroma go ? I used to crave this beer just for the aroma. Taste is hoppy, but nowhere near the hoppiness that this beer once had. Faint pine flavor with hints of mango and peach and caramel malt. This beer used to be near perfect and now is a shade of what it once was. What has happened here ?

22 oz bottle poured into a tulip. Poured a hazy orange color with a three finger whitish head. Aroma of citrus and some sweetish malt. Flavor was well balanced with a mix of piney and citrus flavors. A faint bitterness that lingers briefly. I really liked this beer, but it isn’t as good as Hopslam. I guess the scarcity of the brew makes it better?

Amber/copper. Small, dense, tan head. Nose of big time grapefruit rind, floral resin, a nug of cannabis, and a touch of poison. Same flavors with just enough to call it a beer. Medium, balanced body is chuggable if you can handle the intense hops. YuleSmith, 120, Chouffe Houblon, Dreadnaught (haven’t had the North Bridge - message me if you have some) - all a little different, all at the top of the game for IIPA’s.

Bottle:Big nose,fruity apricot,apple,with wet tea leaves. Nice orange color. Big malty hoppy flavor. Carmel,vanilla with grapefruit. Thick and creamy. A big time player in the monster IPA catagory. Thats the way(uh-huh uh-huh) I like it.

Yummmmmmmmmmm! I got this while visiting my brother in Indianapolis. It’s not my favorite DIPA out there, but it’s still quite good.