Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout

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

Nice brown sugar, molasses, and chocolate aroma that pours out of the bottle before the liquid. Appearance is a shade past midnight with the darkest burnt caramel head I’ve ever seen. Dense meringue-like foam. Thick, oily consistency that stuck to the roof of your mouth and easily coated the palate. You’ll need a chisel to remove the flavor. Along with the pleasant bitter chocolate, cocoa, coffee and licorice, there is a noticeable soy presence. A very tasty beer but definitely doesn’t stack up to the best of the style.

2008 Bottle. Everything about this beer is overly intense yet it all seems to work together. Pours like a liquid black hole. The aroma is inviting but frightening at the same time. It has a simply amazing syrup-like consistency. The most astonishing thing about the beer is how smooth it is considering the strength. As stated below, it will make other "strong" beers taste like spring water.

Pours like used motoroil with a micrometer of brown head so don’t worry about overflow. Consistency of warm syrup. Coffee, chocolate, molasses, figs, smoke, etc. This beer will destroy your taste for other stouts so don’t rate other stouts immediately after drinking this.

This beer scares me. I am terrified right now. I need to call my mom and have her talk me down.

22oz bottle-@Hoboken#1-pours a dissipating brown head with nice lacing film and black color. Aroma is roasty smoke, dark malt-anise. Taste is roasty smoke, dark malt-anise, some acidic. Syrupy, smooth.

Sampled at Hellbilly’s Hellraiser II. Bottle of ’07 and ’08 side by side. Both pour a thick black with a ring of brown head slowly rising to the top. The ’07 was molasses, soy and salt. Really not enjoyable. The ’08 did have some redeeming qualities. Notes of roasted coffee, dark chocolate, molasses, vanilla and dark fruits. Still a bit of the soy coming through, but not in an overpowering way. Thick oily palate and a long bitter finish.

Ok, finally got around to trying the plain old version. Black as night, thick, blah blah blah. You get it. Flavor was, molasses, vanilla, some cherry, slight coffee, big wall of flavor that came together very well. I liked the way the flavors melded and then the great lasting finish. Doesn’t quite dethrone expy, but a great beer none the less. Too much hype? who knows, but darn tasty. Ok, re-rate here. Had an 09’ bottle of this on friday night. Big thanks to whoever brought it. Poured mostly black with a little light coming through. Aroma was lots of soy, some chocolate, and some coffee. Taste was lots of soy, way too much and the body seemed a bit thin. Not sure what happened here but I am going to have to bring my scores way down. Seemed a bit thin and like it was past it’s prime. Not what I expected for dark lord just six months old.

22 oz. bomber 2008 black wax picked up at dark lord day. All the hype,All the forum talk, the sludge,thier overated,jealosy my brothes,malicous slander no sludge just jealosy,over the second best brewery in the f...ing whole world according to this site.shared bottle with undeserving friends they loved it ,we followed this with goose island bourbon county stout followed by new hollands dragon milk and three floyds behemoth barley wine i’d say a preety good night. poured black as coal with thick small with lots of lacing thick like a heavy chocolate milkflavors of chocolate wood expresso so complex i can’t even begin to explian so i’ll have to re rate it on my next bottle i do have 3 left my ending thought real men drink stout. the guy in chicago has spoken