Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Lord De Muerte
3 Floyds Brewing Co.

Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Lord De MuerteBourbon Barrel Aged Dark Lord De Muerte
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From:
3 Floyds Brewing Co.
 
Indiana, United States
Style:
Russian Imperial Stout
Ranked #359
ABV:
15%
Score:
90
Ranked #9,385
Avg:
4.03 | pDev: 15.88%
Reviews:
45
Ratings:
192
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jul 18, 2023
Added:
May 30, 2011
Wants:
  134
Gots:
  32
Dark Lord aged in bourbon barrels with ancho and guajillo peppers.
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Ratings by tmryan21:
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Rated by tmryan21 from Illinois

4.58/5  rDev +13.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

Jun 22, 2016
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

4.16/5  rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This one pours a very dark and semi-syrupy looking black, with a very small head, and a little bit of lacing.

This smells like caramel, dark fruit, creamy coffee, oaky spice, bourbon, milk chocolate, and just a hint of peppery spice.

The guajillo peppers here are very faint, very subtle. The spice coming off the peppers sort of dovetails into the oaky spice from the barrel, making this just feel like a particularly oaky barrel aged sweet stout. It’s quite sweet, as Dark Lord variants tend to be, but the barrel and pepper does help curtail that a touch. There’s milk chocolate, some light berry fruitiness, caramel, and lots of coffee.

This is medium bodied, pretty thick, lightly syrupy, with a lower level of carbonation.

I didn’t really know what to expect here – I think the pepper heat was appropriately dialed down. This was enjoyable, but mid-tier for Dark Lord variants.
Jul 18, 2023
 
Rated: 4.6 by cd34 from Illinois

Feb 10, 2023
 
Rated: 3.74 by mando31 from Illinois

Oct 24, 2022
 
Rated: 4.35 by MJSFS from Florida

Sep 20, 2022
 
Rated: 4.07 by DucksFan16 from Tennessee

Sep 02, 2020
 
Rated: 4 by Griffith from Connecticut

Mar 21, 2019
 
Rated: 4.31 by Bunuelian from Minnesota

Jul 05, 2018
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Reviewed by Rristow from Ohio

4.62/5  rDev +14.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Tasted from bottle. 2017 version. Pours Black with beige head. Aroma of cocoa, lot of pepper, some sweet molasses. Surprisingly not overpowering pepper which was nice. You get the vanilla, cocoa, bourbon, caramel and toffee as well. Very nice variant.
Jun 24, 2018
 
Rated: 3 by petermethot from New Jersey

Jun 22, 2018
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Rated by Luscious_Malfoy from Illinois

4.43/5  rDev +9.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
2017 green wax vintage
Jun 18, 2018
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Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio

4.33/5  rDev +7.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Shiny black with a fuzzy, swirling mocha film and thick collar.

I'm getting loads of green pepper with a chipotle pepper roast and stinging heat that really kicks up on the way down. I also taste a savory SpaghettiOs flavor that's just as weird as that sounds.

I've heard all kinds of praise for Muerte, so I came into this with moderate expectations of something like Mexican Cake or Oro Negro. But the pepper takes full control and it's neither a mole-inspired Stout, nor is it even a minimal semblance of its base.

This review was originally based off of a short pour of the black waxed 2016 vintage, but I've since opened my 2017 green wax bottle mid November 2018 and unfortunately find very little of note to change about it. A beer that brings all the subtly of chipotle in adobo sauce is a tough nut to swallow. Luckily I had about 10 other lucky souls to split this with!

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On 11/19/2022 I cracked my yellow and blue waxed 2022 bottle and to my surprise enjoyed it far more than previous iterations, which I'd given a a grand total score of 2.77.

An uncharacteristically zippy carbonation now lifts sweeter, fruitier pepper notes, as opposed to the weirdly savory, chipotle-in-adobo-style SpaghettiOs of years past. It's kind of like raspberry chocolate with just a bare scosche of spicy heat. In that regard, I kind of wish there was more now (lol), but I must admit, it's a better beer now than ever before, thus the huge bump in score.
May 24, 2018
 
Rated: 4.31 by vfgccp from New York

May 19, 2018
 
Rated: 3.05 by Jhfinn from New York

Apr 29, 2018
 
Rated: 3.71 by acurtis from New Jersey

Apr 15, 2018
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Rated by Grackos from Florida

4.48/5  rDev +11.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Some heat at the back end. Delicious.
Apr 08, 2018
 
Rated: 4.59 by wvsabbath from West Virginia

Mar 31, 2018
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Reviewed by PBRmeasap1980 from Indiana

4/5  rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
2015 - Barrel only takes a slight edge off the sweetness of Dark Lord. Tons for normal DL flavors with raisins, prunes, coffee, sugar, and a bit of pepper. Most of the pepper comes through in a slight burn hanging in the back of the mouth/throat. Not terribly remarkable.
Feb 21, 2018
 
Rated: 4.5 by t2grogan from Arizona

Feb 05, 2018
 
Rated: 4.48 by Eman17 from Illinois

Jan 07, 2018
Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Lord De Muerte from 3 Floyds Brewing Co.
Beer rating: 90 out of 100 with 192 ratings