Floyd D'Rue
3 Floyds Brewing Co.

(Side note: I had one that was infected. I won't review that one)

Bottled summer 2014; drank 8/5/14 @ the Palace.

Brown/black hue.

Dark tan head; minimal lace.

Brown sugar, cinnamon, rum & chocolate nose. Nice!

Thick mouthfeel.

Cinnamon, mild tartness. Brown sugar as it warms. Unique, interesting but not quite great.

 

 

I think I took a drink and almost immediately shat my pants. God awful. Nothing else to say.

 

 

Black color with mocha head. Aroma is spicy and tart, like Haribo cola gummies. Taste starts really astringent with dried fruits, cola, cinnamon. Medium body, really dry and acidic, medium carbonation. It clearly isn't what it was supposed to be but it's not really that bad. If you expect a barrel aged imperial porter, it's not, but it's a quite decent sour dark ale.

 

Tasted at The Bruery taproom from bottle. Since it was served there I assume it was a collaboration brew with them. Unique spicy and herbal aroma is inviting. Flavors are also unique but not really to my liking. Tastes like somebody poured a double shot of Jagermeister into a decent porter. Not an improvement in my mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bottle was likely infescted.

 

Tasted on tap at The Bruery on 4/22/15.

 

 

 

Large shared bottle of Floyd D'Rue.
Mouthfeel: Syrupy and sticky body. Full bodied.

Overall: Overly boozy and medicinal in both the aroma and the taste.

Wow . Smells strong but wow is it smooooth and kind of sessionable.

 

 

had a bubblegum taste to it

Soured porter with cinnamon and spice. Spices, tarness and bourbon work in a weird way.

 

 

 

 

Interesting collaboration. Boozy and the rum barrels give port like quality.

Sour and nasty. Hope I get an exchange like rumored

20 year old Manischewitz, A1 steak sauce, awful astringency. Keith Richards exfoliates with this.

A friend shared his bottle with me at Side Project release, thanks Mike!

A-The beer poured dark brown, but looked a little thin.

S- spicy smells of things like nutmeg, cinnamon, maybe ginger (?) somewhat astringent spice aroma. It smells okay.

T- very weird flavors. Lots of spices, but they do not congeal into a pleasant taste. Way too much spice character and the spices just conflict with each other. Again, there is an astringent quality to the spices, almost tart tannic quality to the finish.

Overall, it was pretty terrible beer. I drank with two other people and both of them agreed it was terrible also. Between the three of us, we did not even finish a third of the bottle. We poured out our glasses and the bottle. I really don't think it is infected like a lot of people mention. I just think they did a really bad job with the spicing of this beer, and as the beer is aging the spice character is not aging well.