Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA

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

Bottle@chris_o. Pretty much a standard Imperial IPA with lots of hops. Still more drinkable the some althoug one glass is enough.

A clear amber color, perfect color for a yummy IPA, beautiful lacing and a nice head that can be adjusted to anyone’s taste. Aroma is large on hops, herbal and floral with a touch of malt filling in the back 40. Flavor is surprisingly balanced for so much hops. This is a huge IPA and stands up to the Imperial descriptive. It's like there's an International Hop Convention in my mouth and every brewer is invited. Finishes bone dry with a bitter tart feeling followed by the sweet hop sting, great. This is the pinnacle of IPAs, they can't get any better than this. Thanks Indra!

Bottle. Amber color with medium head that diminished quickly. Full hoppy aroma. Medium body. Complex balanced flavor with a great long bitter finish. Great brew and will hunt out another bottle.

Bottle, many thanks to bu11zeye for this one. Pours a clear orange amber color with a small off-white head. Malty and very hoppy grapefruit aroma. Sweet malty very bitter and slightly harsh flavor with lots of citrus hints. Long hoppy grapefruit finish going over to a long bitter aftertaste. Very good!

Amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramel and toffee with lots of grapefruit hops, and a hint of alcohol. Sweet caramel flavour with intense and complex hops, with citrus and pine dominating

An extra special thanks to atpayne (Adam) for this one. Adam was good enough to trade me three different FFF styles for some quality PA and NY beers, and FFF has eclipsed Stone as my current favorite brewer. I drank this one out of a Corsendonk tulip glass. It pours a turbid pumpkin pie colored (I verified, from the label, that this is bottle conditioned), with a reverse "Guinness cascade" going on...super heady, carbonation moving from bottom to top. Great lace. It's funny...I just described seeing the Taj Mahal in the lace of a previous beer, and this one has a drawing of the Taj Mahal on the label! Aroma of HUGE pineapple, grapefruit, hops, pears, applesauce, and honeydew melon. Tastes extremely hoppy, with hints of all the above mentioned fruits, citrus, and chardonnay. Finishes very hoppy, fruity, citrusy, crisp, smooth, with extremely well hidden alcohol (I estimated 6-7...this doesn't taste like 9.5). Amazingly complex...each swallow brings slightly new aromas and flavors. As it warmed, I noticed even more complex aromas and flavors. I gave the Stoudt's IPA a 5.0, and this one is just as deserving, for slightly different reasons. This one is hoppier, but somewhat less complex than the Stoudt's IPA, in my opinion. This one surpasses the Dogfish 90 minute IPA. I see no deductions in this one, and I want to thank atpayne again for this exceptional beer. Three Floyds beers will bend you over the table, shove complexity and hops up your ass, and make you cry mercy. Fucking OUTSTANDING!!!

Deep orange hazy ale with little head. Sweet vanilla fudge aroma with pungeant hops and alcohol warmt. Sweet malt and wonderful pinhey hops, pineau de charente qualities, and burned nuts. Complex hops in mouth. Rich bodied. Bottle sampled with TiggMtl, MartinT, muzzlehatch and Rastacouere. From hopscotch...thanks my friend!

Bottle. Head is initially small, frothy, off-white, mostly diminishing. Body is hazy medium amber. Aroma is moderately to heavily hoppy (resin, grapefruit), lightly to moderately malty (caramel, cookie), trace yeast (dough), with notes of candied fruit and alcohol. Flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Finish is moderately sweet, moderately acidic, moderately bitter. Medium to full body, velvety texture, lively carbonation, lightly to moderately alcoholic. It’s a hoppy mo-fo, but the mouth experience is anything but abrasive. Good stuff.