Three Floyds Alpha Klaus Christmas Porter

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Munster, Indiana USA

Bottle @ Chris_o’s Pre-Beer Exposed Tasting, September 2008.
Pours completely black with a small, creamy, film head. Aroma is softly sweet, good maltiness, good hoppiness and lots of coffee. Nice, dry mouthfeel. Flavour is great. Lots of dryness, chocolate, good hops. Coffee and cocoa in the finish. Very nice beer.

Bomber courtesy of StFun. Pours an oily dark black with mahogany hues and a billowy 3 finger tan head and slippery lacing. Nose is roasted coffee beans, dark chocolate and some dark fruit hidden as well. Taste is ashy toasted malt, black coffee, powdered cocoa and some bittering hops in the finish, but the coffee lingers more than the hops. Smooth, creamy mouth feel. Very good porter – thanks Josh!

POurs a very very dark brown color with a tan head. Aroma is very dry and lots of roasted malts with some semi sweet chocolate mixed in. Flavor was just silky smooth rasoted coffee beans and nice caramel and chocolate notes. I put this up there with Edmund Fitzgerald anyday.

Dark brown hue with a big craggy tan head that quickly dissipates. Aroma is more dark chocolate than coffee, tones of roast, smoke, grassy hops, and booze. Initial taste is biter chocolate with green floral hops, some light coffee malts and roast in the middle with a quick bitter finish. Watery texture with weak carbonation. This should have held up since winter, but it tastes a bit flat to me, would like to taste a fresher version this year.

(USA) Pours a very dark brown color with a MONSTER tan head.(appx 3 inches) so don’t pour this x-mas porter to fast... lol. The aroma is of chocolate and coffee. The taste is of rich chocolate, smoky malts and a mild hops. The mouthfeel is full bodied with some nice carbonation and a slightly dry finish. This porter is delicious and worth looking for. :)

8/12- 22oz bomber -- nice dark pour. Excellent flavor - This is one of my favorites by FFF so far - interesting aftertaste. Got the last 22 OZ bomber from the Hop Shop for this year! Good timing

Thanks to yem25 and my Summer Secret Santa, I have two bottles on hand to enjoy - well, now there’s only one. The evenings have been unusually warm this summer, and last night was the first cool evening in a while. I decided to break out something dark and rich to celebrate, and this beer did not disappoint. Pours a very dark brown, just about black, with a large and luscious light brown head that lasted through two-thirds of the glass and left a curtain of lace with each sip. Very pleasant aroma of chocolate, coffee, roasted malt, and some floral hops. The flavor is equally nice with chocolate, coffee, roasted malt, and a bit of dark fruit. This is followed by some moderate bitterness that lingers for a few seconds beyond the swallow. As the beer warms, the bitterness subsides a bit. An excellent porter!

He he. I got several bottles of this at less than half price in January of 08 because "it would go bad." Yeah, thanks to FFF for hopping that crap out of this stuff, I decided to cellar a few to see how they do. I’m absolutely gaga about the 07 and I can’t wait to get some of the 08. The warmth of this brew balances out the FFF hop obsession making this beer one of the most drinkable in their line-up, IMO. Must have. That’s all I’ll say about this stuff.