Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA

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

hazy amber-orange colour with a little fast disappearing foam; very strong hoppy nose with aroma of pine needle, perfumed flowers, exotic fruits and notes of alcohol in the background; soapy/oily mouthfeel, robust malt body; powerful and impressive (but not aggressive) bitterness, long bitter finish with lots of hoppy flavours and a warming alcohol touch - another great american hop juice - <!-- i -->big thank you to Per for this beer !<!-- /i -->

#300, upon opening this bottle I was immediately smacked upside the head by an onslaught of hops, and a magnificent aroma of citrus and floral hops. this poured a fiery orange with a nice white head. Taste was hoppy, flavors of grapefruit, citrus, with abundant piney notes, and roasted caramel malt to balance it out, and a wonderful full mothfeel. Outstanding!

Ok, I have to admit, all those people who have been trumpeting the praises of Three Floyds were right. This is an awesome beer. The aroma is very hoppy. It's what you'd get if you could crossbreed tangerines with a pine or a juniper plant. I'm also getting whiffs of balloon rubber, but that doesn't make any sense. The flavor is surprisingly well balanced. I was expecting some major hops bitterly unbalancing the beer, but the hops are nicely balanced by the thick almost chewy malt flavors. The perceived bitterness is surprisingly low with the actual flavors of the hops coming through. The malt is toasted buttered biscuits with a bit of caramel sauce and maybe a little maple syrup. The beer is sweet, but not cloying. The body is a dark amber topped by a nice too-dark-to-be-off-white head that isn't a permanent fixture, but not wimpy either. Damn this is good.

Had this draught and it was simply amazing. The alcohol is not even a factor, which maybe a bad factor as the last thing I remember is having this beer, then I woke up in the back of a Jeep! As with all of FFF the hops are there, and in a big way. Fruit and light with grapefruit, sugar, citrus flavors. I can't rave enough about this brewer and about this beer. Re-rate: This isn't so much a re-rate as an addition. Had this cask-conditioned which considerably softened the palate as well as presented some more grapefruit flavors. Overall, the same flavors are present, but the soft palate I felt mellowed out the beer much more and created a much more beautiful balance.

650 ml bottle poured in a tulip. This highly anticipated beer finally came my way thanks to a trade with mdm46410. It smells like citrus hops and hay. It pours a cloudy tangerine color with a gravely head. It has an initial hot pepper and vegetation resin flavor followed quickly by hops, mild lemon and the essence of pure bitter. The last drop of the swallow leaves your sour-buds quivering and your saliva glads in an frenzy of juice pumping. This beer is not for the faint-of-heart. It’s a beer for those who value taste, flavor and boldness. Of over a 1000 beers tasted so far this is in the top 5 easily, possibly in the top 3.

Nice large head with medium bubbles--laces even before the first sip. Light brown color with tiny bit of haze. Very hoppy nose of grapefruit. Very drinkable. This beer cannot be as strong in ABV as it claims--I demand to see the specific gravity readings! Hop in the flavor everywhere, and it is well blended. Maltiness hits you in the middle and slides off the tongue with ease into a bitter finish of citrous and pine. Full palate that is delicious and complex. Slight alcohol in the aftertaste. This beer opens clogged sinuses. It feeds the poor. One day it could perhaps save the world!

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.

If I ever get a kegerator, this will be the beer of choice in it. The only drawback is that you can only have a couple pints before you're obliterated. Big hops, big alchohol, aroma to die for. Who would've thought the best IPA would come out of Indiana?