Three Floyds Oak Aged Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Munster, Indiana USA

On tap @ DLD ’09. Pours black with a brown head with nice lacing along the cup. Smell is amazing, you just want to eat it! Chocolate, malts, oak, roasted nuts. Very rich on the nose, I was excited what it’s going to taste like! Taste is just as good. Very rich, sweet, and epic. Mouthfeel is think/rich, perfect for a RIS.

Rich, high alochol profile in the nose with clear bourbon character. Opaque body, brown head. Just a thin brown film on top. Poured in a plastic cup during Dark Lord Day. This is nectar; very strong ale. I’ve had beers that taste like this before. Not as outstandingly better than the bourbon barrel aged competition as regular Dark Lord is compared to the standard Imperial Stout competition. Served too cold and slightly overcarbonated. Nevertheless, an outstanding, world class beer.

Thanks to Facto for this bottle. Pours dark brown/black, with a very small tan head. Aromas are bourbon, chocloate, dark fruit, and roasted malt. Flavors are bourbon, oak, dark fruit, chocolate, malt, and coffee, with a little bitterness. Carbonation is a low. This is a top notch beer, but a bit too much bourbon takes away some of the ’normal’ Dark Lord flavors that make it great.

Poured old motor oil black with a small brown lace. Sweet oak, bourbon, and dark baker’s chocolate on the nose. The flavors were sweet bourbon, vanilla, and dark chocolate with an oaky undertone and a little bit of cough drop coming through in the finish. Everything seemed to meld together really well until the cough drop thing. Still a very good beer overall. Since I couldn’t give the palate a 6 I had to bump up the overall to make up for it.

What a treat this was, pour thick as can be nose of humongous bourbon, some vanilla, chocolate, oak, and dark fruit. Flavor is even bigger on the bourbon but it comes across as very smooth and extremely tasty. A great beer that handled the bourbon very well.

blacker than black with no head.as i swill the snifter around the beer creates some nice legs on the sides.the aroma is a thick and complex blend of molasses,chocolate,slight bourbon,and alcohol heat.the flavor is even more complex with everything described above.plus some gram crackers,oak,vanilla,and roasted malts.i was surprised at how soft the palate was.the mouthfeel was oily and slick.this is just awesome stuff.

. The same thick motor oil texture and pitch black color of Dark Lord. The same aroma and flavor of Dark Lord, but with bourbon. While not as bad as a lot of bourbon beers, everything I love about Dark Lord still takes a backseat in this one to the bourbon. Delicious in its own right, and very warming. Re-Rate: The 08 version (at 09 DLD) was simply incredible. Much more subtle than previous years. The wood and vanilla come through much better. Traces of tobacco and a nice earthiness all around. Damn this is great.

No surprise to see this one in the Top50 so soon. It would be interesting to try this side by side with Barrel Aged Blackout as they reminded me very much of one another. The bourbon is there, but its done right -- not overwhelming, enhancing and rich. Its rich and viscose with plenty of semi-sweet chocolate, mocha fudge brownie. If there’s one flaw, its that its hot on the finish. Still, excellent, and hopefully we’ll see bottles of this next year. There were a few bourbon barrels stacked behind grain.