Floyd D'Rue
The Bruery

Floyd D'RueFloyd D'Rue
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From:
The Bruery
 
California, United States
Style:
American Porter
ABV:
14.7%
Score:
77
Avg:
3.35 | pDev: 24.78%
Reviews:
33
Ratings:
370
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Nov 15, 2019
Added:
Mar 23, 2014
Wants:
  12
Gots:
  26
Imperial Porter aged in Rum Barrels with spices added.
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Ratings by UCLABrewN84:
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Reviewed by UCLABrewN84 from California

3/5  rDev -10.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 2.75
Thanks to GRG1313 for giving me this one.

Bottled 3/7/14.

Warning sticker: Drink by 6/30/14. Keep refrigerated. May contain lactobacillus.

Pours an opque black with a foamy dark khaki head that settles to a partial film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace slowly drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell is of dark roasted malt, cocoa, char, earth, spices, spiced rum, and dirty wood aromas. Taste is much the same with cocoa, spiced rum, and slight cookie dough flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of roast and wood bitterness and an alcohol kick on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp and medium bodied mouthfeel. Overall, this is a below average beer that smells sort of like a spiced cookie as it warms up, but the flavors are a mess of spices, spiced rum, and alcohol.
May 20, 2014
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

2.69/5  rDev -19.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
Woof. Hey I'm sorry Bruery, you get shit on a lot undeservedly, so with this acknowledgement, let me write the rare review from myself that shits on you.

Pours a very dark brown with a less brown head at 1/5". Aroma is turn off levels of spice rack and rum. Spice rack seemed in the holiday season, nutmeg, cardamom, cinnamon, clove.

The taste is a unique but flawed experience. Some brown and chocolate malt notes, brown sugar, rum, wet wood and lots of spice rack. Big boozy burn amplified by an undesireable bitterness and spice rack feels. Has that bitter dark fruit yeast feel to it in the mouthfeel, like wtf is going on here. Carbonation was fine on mine. Slightly oily aspect to it, nothing dry going on here.

While there are bottles reported as infected, mine just seemed to be a non infected beer that I didn't like. At least the Rue D'Floyd was awesome, this one was far below an average Bruery beer for me. Throw up the cost for a drinking experience to suck, well that's why I generally don't buy more than 1 bottle of a new Bruery beer any more.
Nov 15, 2019
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Reviewed by Jwale73 from Rhode Island

3.59/5  rDev +7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours an inky black with no head, just a thin, tight band around the edges. Nose expresses eggnog and hints of the rum barrel. Taste is not terrible - vinous, eggnog spices and dark malts; however, it is apparent that it's infected. Mouthfeel is light in body with an acidic character. All and all - meh. Not a drain pour by an means, but a short pour will do you and I wouldn't sit on this one - it's not going to get better.
Oct 09, 2017
 
Rated: 2.72 by elemenohpee1 from California

Jun 13, 2017
 
Rated: 4.25 by rspauldi from Texas

Mar 16, 2017
 
Rated: 3.88 by DVMin98 from North Carolina

Dec 15, 2016
 
Rated: 4.27 by JohnBender from Texas

Aug 23, 2016
 
Rated: 4.1 by Kevinpitts from Illinois

Jul 29, 2016
 
Rated: 1.58 by aaronyoung01 from New Mexico

Jul 17, 2016
 
Rated: 3.56 by Jason_cs from Florida

May 04, 2016
 
Rated: 5 by redfox405 from Virginia

Apr 10, 2016
 
Rated: 1.4 by ohiobeer29 from Ohio

Jan 31, 2016
 
Rated: 4.21 by cjohns73 from Delaware

Jan 20, 2016
 
Rated: 4.12 by Honeybourne from Scotland

Jan 17, 2016
 
Rated: 3.65 by StoutItOutLoud from Illinois

Jan 10, 2016
 
Rated: 4.23 by shoegueuze from California

Jan 04, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by crob3888 from California

Dec 28, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by Taby from California

Dec 28, 2015
 
Rated: 4.1 by dddddddd from Washington

Dec 14, 2015
 
Rated: 4.25 by PassMeAZima from Kentucky

Nov 29, 2015
Floyd D'Rue from The Bruery
Beer rating: 77 out of 100 with 370 ratings