Three Floyds Apocalypse Cow

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Munster, Indiana USA

Bottle from a trade with FlssmrBrewAlum. Pours orange/amber color with off white head. Very malty aroma for a DIPA. There is some citrus hop aroma but not really strong. Flavor is sweet and malty with citrus hop bitterness. Medium body with mild carbonation and a sticky mouthfeel. A good beer, but not as good as I thought it would be. Thanks Adam.

On tap at the Three Floyds on 7/21/09. Pours Hazy orange with frothy beautiful one inch head. Pine dominates the aroma, with only a hint of sweet vanilla. Sweet and cramy up front with a great slow bitter finish. Amazingly unique beer, with the only knock that the alcohol is not hidden too well.

[Bottle] This is really an interesting and unique beer. Pours a hazy orange with a smallish khaki head that leaves a touch of lacing. Aroma is citric and resinous hops, and some definite underlying sweetness. The flavor is really the different part. If I didn’t already know this had lactose I wouldn’t have guessed, but it doesn’t really add any sweetness, except just a hair on the finish. The citric and resinous hops linger long after the finish. There’s also an interesting play between the coarseness of the hops and the smoothness of the lactose that I haven’t seen in any other beer. I didn’t have high expectations for this one going into it, but I’m pretty impressed.

Bomber shared with the kid. Thanks man. Pours a hazy orange color that has a mild head that doesn’t last too long. What is there has some lacing. Lots of sweetness and citrus hoppiness on the nose that follows through to the taste. Sweet start and a bitter finish. Smooth and full bodied. A decent variation of a double-IPA.

Bomber courtesy of Ughsmash. Pours a hazy golden to amber with a thin white head. Aroma is sweet and floral with notes of fresh hops, grapefruit, pine, citrus, honey, caramel. Flavor is sweet and buttery with notes of caramel, honey, floral hops, pine, grapefruit. Medium body with a pleasing hop finish.

In short: A sweet and well hopped fruity IPA. Very good.
How: Bottle 22oz. Consumed relatively fresh a month or two after receiving it from Shawn213. Thanks a lot Shawn
The look: Almost clear dark golden body topped by a very small off-white head
In long: Nice highly aromatic hoppy nose, mainly citrus fruits. Sweet honey/caramel malts well balanced by a lot of citrusy hops with some pine-cone and tropical fruits notes. Very juicy. Medium bitterness. A bit reminiscent of a Dreadnaught Light but with a little less focus on the citrus fruits. Need another bottle of this cause this was too late in a tasting session. Little is known about the mysterious Apocalypse Cow. But a footnote in the Book of Revelation states that after bringing chaos and destruction to mankind the Four Horsemen shall celebrate with some mighty fine burgers.

2 22 oz bombers acquired via two different trades. This beer comes out a very dark orange with a thick and creamy white head and awesome lacing. Aroma is mostly hops, but what a plethora of hop aromas it is! Starts out with pine and grapefruit, but a deeper whiff reveals pineapple and orange lurking beneath them. There is also a mild lactic smell, but it’s buried in the mix. The flavor is huge pine and citrus hops with more of the lactic presence here, and in a slightly thicker mouthfeel than you’d expect from the style. I was a little skeptical of this beer because I wasn’t sure how the lactose would work in an IPA, but this was a standout and yet another thing I’ve very much enjoyed from FFF.

Bottle from stfun, thanks josh! Poured into a snifter, nice orange color, small head. Good aroma of pine and citrus. Taste is the same, lots of citrus and a big pine taste. Light fruitiness. Well balanced. Clean and crisp. Easy to drink for a 9.5% beer. Overall, I could drink this all the time...A good DIPA with probably the coolest beer label of all time.