Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA

Well this was quite a treat thanks to Dough77 for this one. Pours a hazy amber color with nice white head. The body was just too thin for me. Not a typical Impy IPA, kinda leaves you hanging after going down. Taste of oranges and hops blended together, just not enough of it. I want more of both damn it; good but not great. Shouldn’t be in the top 50.

Bottle at Toms Glasgow tasting 2 ... Amber ... light fruit hop ... bright light fruit ... lot of hops ... light mellow grapefruit ... not as piney as many US IPAs ... quite juicy with a nice charcater.

What a damn good beer. I should leave it at that, but I can’t. I should not compare, but we are all guilty of that. As good as Dread is, it is not the best Imperial IPA on the planet. I think it falls behind 90 Min, Majaraha from Avery and Hercules from Great Divide. But, with that being said, Dread was wonderfully balanced from start to finish with citrus hops. It was big, bold, hazy and damn tasty. But not the best and not for $10 for a 22 oz bottle.

65 cl bottle. Tasted in comparisson with other double IPAs. I had very high expectations for this beer: Hazy amber colour with a little white head. Amazing, lovely aroma of nice, fat, and high alpha hops such as citrus, peach, melon, and caramel. Great taste of hops and burned caramel. Well-balanced proportion of hops and caramel. Ends up bitterand alcoholicly. It gets better and better for every sip! 65 cl of amazing sips :o)

Copper-orange pour with a small off-white head. Big grapefruit and tropical fruit aroma with a sweet clover honey background. Juicy hop flavor with lots of tropical fruit notes and clover honey lingering on the palate after you swallow. Strong floral and pine notes come out after a few sips. sticky, oily, medium body with lots of carbonation to break it up. The alcohol sticks around on the palate for a while in the aftertaste too.

[fresh 08 bottle 3.20.08] Pours reddish clear amber with no bubbles and a small white head. Huge piney, mango, pineapple, stingy hop aroma and some smooth malt, only complaint is some alcohol in the nose. IIPA’s are suppose to big and bold and reckless, but this stuff is very nicely refined. Lots of tropical fruits, very sweet too, this stuff is juicier than a starburst. The bitterness of the hops come out in the finish. The finish also has lots of mango in it. Smooth, very slightly chewy, body and carbonation. Now I have to try this next to Goose’s IIPA. Surprisingly, the hops flavor isn’t as clear as it is in Alpha King. 9.5.10.5.19 [Rerate fresh 09 bottle - 2.23.09] Pours a glowing clear dark orange, looks sugary, with a medium/small frothy head. That 09 hop smell... dirty green earthy plant-like bitter grass, lesser citrus that 08, not as piney or resiny either. Very very good but nowhere near what it was last year... last year the hop oils attacked my mouth into a tingling frenzy. The hops are a bit green and bitter plant like, not nearly as much citrus as last year. The malts are right, smooth sugary caramel and light honey. Medium bodied, smooth with softer larger carbonation with a slight bite, it is sugary without feeling sugary. 8.5.8.5.15

Thanks to inkubus27 for the trade. This beer is pretty good. It pours a nice orange amber color with a quickly dissipating white head. Has a very strong peach aroma. Very smooth on the palate, not much carbonation, overall taste is better than average, but not my favorite IPA. Would drink again.

I love this beer. It tastes and smells almost as good as a 21 year old freshly shaven virgin after a shower. Outstanding stuff!