Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Munster, Indiana USA

2008 bomber, thanks to the fabulous CMUBEERMAN. Pours tar, tan head. Aroma is well balanced and blended, chocolate, coffee, malt, vanilla, smoke, slight pine & anise. I can barely detect the alcohol, amazingly smooth aroma. Flavor is oily, and is sweet at first, honey vanilla, chocolate, but mellows into creamy bitter coffee, meaty, smoky, with molasses lingering at the finish. Amazing! This is one of the finest beers ever made. Aliendan approves too! ;)

2007 Bottle Looks like Used Motor Oil and it coats the glass like glue. Head ? Well. . . Next to nothing . . . and carbonation, not a lot to be found. . . Aroma, Dried fruit, musty almost like musty bakers Chocolate. Oh my god the front palate is bad. . . Finish is decent, not to bad actualy on the finish. Tastes like Espresso, Chared Mapel Syrup, and Dark Chocolate. You buy a bomber of this stuff your feeling it quick. I don’t know how people stand in line for this stuff, i didn’t really think it was all that great with all the hype that this brew gets. Not my style but over all not to bad, but considering how you have to get it, and the price, i wouldn’t buy one ever. It’s not that i don’t like this style, it’s just ok at best. . . Edit: Woooo, this stuff is making me feel buzzy ! The flavors are getting a bit ’’’’too much’’’’ now. . . Rather have a Old Rasputin. . . .

Bomber 2006 vintage poured a nearly opaque dark brown with a small lingering brown head. Aromas of dark fruit, smoke, bitter chocolate, molasses and light vanilla. Palate was full bodied and smooth. Flavors of mollasses, bitter chocolate, figs, dates, light vanilla and smoke with a smooth warming lingering bittersweet finish.

vyvvy, THANKS!!! What an incredible beer. This evening I found beer religion. An incredibly beautiful pour with that distinct red head. Just amazing. Aromas of so much fruit, so much malt, so much, well, you get it. Flavors to match. Dark fruit just kept coming and kept surprising as did the appearance and nose. There was so much going on and every bit of it was amazingly good. John, did I say thanks? Wow!!!

Don’t know quite where this came from but as if by magic appeared on the table at The European Beer Festival 2008 Kobenhaven, if it was Mikel, thank you very much Poured shark eye black, quite unbelievable mouthfeel rich, complex, stunning. Lovely creaminess, plenty of dark fruits, velvety, can’t be bothered to rate anymore, really lovely stuff.

This appeared on the table at EBF 08 at some point, and I’m eternally grateful. Black with a thin brown head. Nose is sweet, malty, talc and antiseptic. Mouth is sweet, oaky, smooth, creamy, chocolatey, chewy liquorice. Despite all this pounding my tastebuds had just had, it finishes relatively gentle. So thick, but absolutely superb.

Courtesy growler. You are the man. I have been wanting to try this one for a really long time. 2007 bottle. This one glugs out of the bottle just like used, thick motor oil. Pitch black body with a small tan head that quickly settles to a thin film. This one just looks thick and massive. The aroma is rich and decadent showing massive amounts of dark and milk chocolate, fudge, roasted coffee, dark fruits, and vanilla. The flavor is equally as impressive and complex. More dark fruits, licorice, and raisins coated in the chocolate and espresso emerge in the taste. The sweetness is balanced out by some bitterness from the copious amounts of hops and smoothed over by some vanilla. The flavors attack the palate from every angle showing it’s true depth. Full bodied and the thickest mouthfeel I’ve ever felt in a beer. The body is very visocus and smooth and coats the palate and hides the alcohol beautifully. A long bitter-sweet chocolate finish leaves you wanting after every sip. This is the best imperial stout I have had to date, and certainly seems hard that anything could top it. This is one of the few beers to me that actually lives up to the massive hype that precedes it.

A customer at my work gave me this, so cheers to him! Pours the thickest oily sludgey black colour you’ve ever seen. Thick thick muddy soupy black, is the best way i can describe it. Aroma is strong of alcohol right away, smoke, black licorice, oak and coffee grounds. Taste is crazy, almost chewy. I shared this with several different people and we all had different reactiosn to it. But i loved it. TAste is of wood, bbq, toffee and coffee. NIce beer.