Three Floyds Alpha Klaus Christmas Porter

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

Pours to a deep dark black body with a creamy tan head. The aroma is very hoppy and portery. Chocolate malts and PNW hops. Churros. The flavor is pine hops and roasty coffee and nutty chocolate. Very smooth and balanced. The palate is smooth, medium-full bodied and bitter. Nice feel. Very delicious.

22oz. Bottle: Lightly sweet, lightly bitter aroma. Smells of alcohol, coffee, chocolate, cinnamon, astringent, and cream. Poured dark black in color with a large, creamy, foamy, tan head that lasted throughout. Head looks like a melting bowl of Bryer’s Coffee Ice Cream. Good lacing. Opaque. Flavor is lightly sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of cream, sugar, coffee, milk chocolate, malts. Medium body. Thin texture. Soft carbonation. Short, lightly sweet, finish. Overall, a nice, well balanced porter.

Wow, easily "the hop-est". This is the most bitter porter I have ever had. It tastes like they stuck cubes of sappy burnt wood chips into the boil, and the result is a wonder to behold. One does not drink this beer, this beer let’s itself be drunk under a strict understand that, while drinking this beer, it will amaze you and you damn well better be ready for it.

A small black head introduces this hoppy FFF beer. The sweetness of the Mexican sugar and the malts, along with the fantastic hop profile... wow. Chocolate, expresso, and sugar, not to mention hops.... a bitter, coffee finish.... I am all over the place with this one. But I like it.

another wonderful beer by fff. pours oily black with minor head. aroma is sweet brown sugar, expresso, choco, HOPS, and raisin sweetness. taste is as the aroma advertises with a wonderful leafy american hoppiness supported with great expresso and brown sugar tones. finish is both expresso and hop bitter. solid stuff.

Deep, opaque brown with a thick, dark tan head. Aroma is chocolate and roasted malt with dry, fruity hops. The flavor is dark roasted malt, bittersweet chocolate and the usual Floyds fruit and pine hops backing it up. Medium bodied, smooth and creamy. Very nice.

I didnt sense the ton of hops that this supposbly has iin it. Very good stuff, very rich and smooth. Doesnt have that bitter coco taste like some do. pretty good stuff, but didnt stand out to much from the sea of porters out there.

This beer wad served in a Delirium Tremens tulip glass. An aggressive pour produced a one finger brown head that quickly is reduced to a thin, self-replenishing film. The beer is a nearly opaque dark brown. The aroma is powerful and complex, beautifully balancing crisp chocolate malt, aromatic hops and a crisp fruity edge. I am enjoying the aroma so much I am reluctant to drink. The mouth-feel is medium-bodied, a bit lighter than expected, and somewhat creamy with carbonation. The flavor is bold and complex, leading and finishing with a sharp roasted malt bitterness, yet with the Alpha hop character constantly lurking in the shadows of my palate.