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Three Floyds Alpha Klaus Christmas Porter

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
7354.01/5.04/5.0Winter7.5%94Snifter
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Alpha Klaus is Alpha King’s cousin. A big American X-mas Porter brewed with English chocolate malt and Mexican sugar and of course tons of strange American hops! Cheers.
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 biz82 (1328), austin, Texas, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/103/515/20
Sep 28, 2006  
22 oz. bottle. Black with a big bubbled but stable brown head. Big chocolate and hop aroma helped by caramel malts. Thinner in body than expected. Excellent and well balanced flavors of chocolate, coffee, caramel and hops. Well made beer.


 pbjclimber (150), Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
Sep 13, 2006  
Pours a very very dark brown with a fluffy tan head that has good lacing. Flavor is of chocolate with a nice coffee mix with a little caramel. A bit of bitterness is also present. This is well balanced and a great beer.


 sersdf (1000), chicago, Illinois, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/517/20
Sep 2, 2006  
huge thanks to zeswaft for this bomber. big pretty dark brown head. kiinda uglyish foam after a while, but it’s still an easy five. smells exactly as i would hope. big hops but even bigger roasted malt, perhaps a tiny bit of sourness. porter aroma. somehow, i’m strangely reminded of the JP imperial stout... like a light-bodied imperial stout. it’s actually really good at refrigerator temperature. ridiculously good. largely roasted flavor. a bit one-dimensional, but it’s easily the best porter i’ve ever had.


 00cobraR (1098), Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Aug 19, 2006  
Pours a black color with a huge brown head. flavor is intense choco with huge malts. aroma is very nuch the same. Super great brew. Have yet to have a bad 3f beer.


 elektronikfagteknikerlærling (892), kbh, Denmark
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Aug 10, 2006  
bottle. pours black with medium head. deep coffee and liqerice aroma. sweet and fresh for a porter. some dark fruits. bit carpy.


 bdjames29 (272), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Aug 8, 2006  
Big Bottle. Delicious. Head was out of control - mocha colored and fluffy, beautiful lacing. Thick pour for a porter, very rich. Chocolatey, a bit of apricot and hints of pine. Traditional 3F hoppy kick at the end, but so much as to upset the balance of this porter. A different and very delicious porter. I have to go ahead and rank this #1 among the porters that I have tasted. My full rec.


 shigadeyo (2263), Harrison, Ohio, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Jul 30, 2006    Updated: Aug 9, 2006
This is a wonderful porter with lots of hop aroma and flavor. Pours a deep mahogany color with a nice tan head. A good blend of hops, roastiness, and mocha. Almost has an olive-like flavor on the tongue midway through. A slight bitterness toward the end, but not too much. A very well-balanced porter. 22 oz. bottle, $7.99.


 Dickinsonbeer (3449), Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Jul 29, 2006    Updated: Dec 10, 2006
Pours a deep dark brown with a nice lasting tan head. Aroma is actually a bit light on the hopppy side for a FFF product, but the typical citrusy, apricot, hoppiness is there along with a lot of thcik sweet chocolate malt. Light roast in the flavor accompanied by more chocolate some light caramel and toffee. Nice medium bittering hops in the end make it very smooth and easy drinking despite the high ab v for a porter.



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