BrewDog Three Floyds Bitch Please

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Barley Wine
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle from RealAle.com in Twickenham. Pours clear copper with a beige head. Aroma of smokey, oaky malt. Flavor is strong smoke with some almost lost sweet caramel. From the little I can tell, the beer is very tasty. However, the excessive smoke tends to make that difficult to discern. As time goes on it develops a certain amount of bitter. This sort of thing works much better with Impy Stouts.

Botella de 330ml. Copa de Vino. Saboreada en may´12. Color ámbar muy oscuro con espuma bronceada. Corona cremosa y persistente. El perfil aromático muestra maltas torrefactas dulces con trazos de frutos oscuros y toffee. Café dulce al primer sorbo seguido por un despiadado amargor seco que desborda los toques afrutados. Notas de brandy de crianza redondean un “calurososo” retrogusto. ¡Cuidado con el cigarrillo! Cuerpo pleno e intenso y carbonatación moderada. 330ml bottle. Oversized glass. Enjoyed on may´12. Very dark amber color. Tan colored head, lasting & creamy crown. Aromatic profile shows sweet roasted malts with hints of dark fruits & toffee notes. Sweet coffee at first sip, hints of plum. Ruthless dry bitter explosion overwhelms fruit flavor. Wood aged brandy notes round a hot aftertaste. Watch up your cigarette!! Full body, soft carbonation.

This beer is one of the most orderly complex beers I’ve ever tried. The complexity is huge, and it just moves you through wonderful stages, giving you the full array of flavors the brewers were going for. I honestly find this to be one of the better beers I’ve tried in quite some time in terms of craft and execution. Whether you like it or not will largely depend on your palate and what you prefer, not the beer. The aroma is just as if you’d popped open a bottle of single-malt scotch. The flavors come in so nicely and move you from stage-to-stage. It opens with sweet, sticky barleywine malts with big flavors of raw sugar and bread. Then it moves into big Laphroig whiskey, with huge flavors of smoke and peat. From there, you get an earthy tone, where you taste a mossy, grassy quality from the hops and it ends with a smoke-laden hop character that builds and gets more astringent as it lingers. Holy cow. If you let it linger long enough, it turns back into "Sugar in the Raw." So much going on in this beer and it keeps evolving on you. Big props.

Very strong aroma and taste, but not exactly tempting. A beer version of whiskey.

Bottle from The Bottle in York. A Dark brown beer with smoky, leather, malt and slight hoppy flavours whisky, oak and more smoke on the finish.

I loved this beer..After taking a drink I had the urge to bite into a smoked flank of lamb. That said, it has a very smoky aftertaste. This smoky flavor is somewhat balanced by a slightly sweet taste. In the brewing video, they said they used shortbread cookies. In short, it was unlike any beer I have ever tasted, a collaborative beer warrants a distinct taste and Bitch Please offers you that.

Wow... Well, without having read up about it, we picked out the Laphroig. Yes, it's that obvious... For better or worse. Pours a deep dark reddish brown with minimal tan head. Nose is dominated by smoky, light single-malt (i.e. Laphroig). Actually, can't make out anything else... Taste is a bit more balanced. The whisky is still dominant, especially in the long finish, but at least you get some bready malt, a hint of full hops in the start. Body is rich and full, creamy yet with a bitter touch. If you like Laphroig, that will cerrainly help... 33cl is too much, though. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

12oz Bottle- Batch#96) Pour is a dark amber with an off white head..Nose is vanilla, wood, chared wet wood, Bandaid, peat...Taste is wet wood, chewy malts, band aid, smoke, scotch..Palate is warm with wood lingering..

Bottle. Smoldering Campfire/burning grasspile aroma at first, but gives way to still-peaty but strange sweet smell. Foolishly, I see now that there was some sort of fudge added and that seems to be the off aroma and off flavor that i didn’t like. Peaty malt stayed throughout and some mish/mash of flavors appeared in the middle as it warmed. Some orange-chocolate notes and some hints of grassy bitterness. The whiskey barrel notes led me to expect strong alcohol at the finish but it was masked nicely- even at 11%+. Really everything I’ve come to expect from Brewdog, and nothing I’d expect from Three Floyds.

330ml Bottle: Got in trade from stobbe74; THANKS Soeren! Aroma of smoke, peat, malt, plastic, and leather. Poured deep amber/brown in color with a medium-sized, creamy, dense, rocky, tan head that lasted throughout. Clear. Sparkling. Very good lacing. Flavor is light to medium sweet and slightly bitter. Tastes of malt, smoke, smoked meat, smoked wood, slight peat, slight iodine, and some plastic. Medium body. Dry texture. Average carbonation. Malt, smoke, smoked meat, plastic, slight peat finish is slightly sweet and dry. 11.5%ABV is completely hidden throughout.

Bottle via trade- pretty sure this was from one of many with michael-pollack, so thanks again, Pollack! If not, thanks to whoever I forgot. Pours a deep, deep, but clear amber with an initially inch-thick off-white head that settles into a small uneven one that leaves a good deal of lace in the glass. Big peat out of the aroma, with caramel, charred oak, apples, fruitcake, and earth. Lots of peat and booze heat. Flavor doesn’t pack quite the same punch, but there’s a lot of peat and charred oak, especially late, caramel, wet grass and leaves, apples, brown sugar, and dates. Body seems a little thin initially but seems to get maltier as it warms. Modest carbonation and a peaty mouthfeel. Pretty interesting beer. Liked this a lot.