Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Lord Imperial Stout | 3 Floyds Brewing Co.
Brewed by:
3 Floyds Brewing Co.
Indiana, United States
3floyds.com
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 15.00%
Availability: Rotating
Notes / Commercial Description:
Dark Lord aged in bourbon barrels for one year. Recently has used a blend of barrels from Heaven Hill, but has also been Woodford Reserve and others in the past
Formerly known as Oak Aged Dark Lord.
Added by mcallister on 04-29-2006
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Ratings: 888 | Reviews: 205
4.14/5 rDev -9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
2015 vintage, still very sweet, too much for my taste unfortunately. Maybe it shoudl age for several years.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
2015 vintage, still very sweet, too much for my taste unfortunately. Maybe it shoudl age for several years.
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4.44/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.68/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
4.51/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Thanks to Ben for sharing this. Incredibly sweet and fruity from the nose to the taste. It does go overboard on the sweetness, but the fruit character is amazing. It has all the dark fruit normally associated with imperial stout like raisins and especially figs, but it goes beyond that to blend in brighter fruit flavors like apple and cherry that really make it pop. I checked the bottle to make sure this was the bourbon version and not Portuguese brandy. All of that fruit shows in the slight reddish hue of the pour and blends perfectly with the chocolate and molasses flavors. This never gets tart and you never feel like the fruit is taking the place of other stout flavors. I don't get a lot of barrel character or bourbon and the booze is barely noticeable considering the abv. The mouth feel is full but super smooth at the same time. I wish it had more barrel character and less sweetness, but it's so rich and smooth and full of complex fruit flavors.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Thanks to Ben for sharing this. Incredibly sweet and fruity from the nose to the taste. It does go overboard on the sweetness, but the fruit character is amazing. It has all the dark fruit normally associated with imperial stout like raisins and especially figs, but it goes beyond that to blend in brighter fruit flavors like apple and cherry that really make it pop. I checked the bottle to make sure this was the bourbon version and not Portuguese brandy. All of that fruit shows in the slight reddish hue of the pour and blends perfectly with the chocolate and molasses flavors. This never gets tart and you never feel like the fruit is taking the place of other stout flavors. I don't get a lot of barrel character or bourbon and the booze is barely noticeable considering the abv. The mouth feel is full but super smooth at the same time. I wish it had more barrel character and less sweetness, but it's so rich and smooth and full of complex fruit flavors.
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5/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Man is this incredible. Pours a thick rich black color with small head. Smells of chocolate and bourbon. Tastes is thick and dark with perfect balance between the bourbon and oak and sweet figgy stout. Nice thick mouth feel. AWESOME>
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look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Man is this incredible. Pours a thick rich black color with small head. Smells of chocolate and bourbon. Tastes is thick and dark with perfect balance between the bourbon and oak and sweet figgy stout. Nice thick mouth feel. AWESOME>
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4.91/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.77/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.83/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.33/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
2015 Vintage. This beer is made to drink in very small portions. As in, less than 5oz. Non BA version is very sweet. Addition of bourbon makes for a hella sweet elixir. It is truly delicious and extremely decadent.
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look: 3 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
2015 Vintage. This beer is made to drink in very small portions. As in, less than 5oz. Non BA version is very sweet. Addition of bourbon makes for a hella sweet elixir. It is truly delicious and extremely decadent.
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4.35/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.42/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
4.56/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.76/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
4.5/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.75/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Well let's start with what isn't there to love about this beer. I was skeptical about it as I think the regular Dark Lord is way to cloying and needs a couple years to mellow in the bottle. But the BBA DL I enjoyed was a 2015 bottle at Kane on 8/14/15 and boy was it amazing. Was still a little sweet but killed it in every aspect. A lot of great dark fruit flavors melded extremely well with the bourbon barrel aging!
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look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Well let's start with what isn't there to love about this beer. I was skeptical about it as I think the regular Dark Lord is way to cloying and needs a couple years to mellow in the bottle. But the BBA DL I enjoyed was a 2015 bottle at Kane on 8/14/15 and boy was it amazing. Was still a little sweet but killed it in every aspect. A lot of great dark fruit flavors melded extremely well with the bourbon barrel aging!
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4.79/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
DLD 2015
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look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
DLD 2015
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Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Lord Imperial Stout from 3 Floyds Brewing Co.
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