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3 Floyds Brewing Co.

 

Clear, amber color. Big, white head. Resin, citrus, and malt in the aroma. Hoppy, juicy taste with a strong, pleasant bitterness. Well made.

This begins very nicely, with a pint can's contents emptied into a clear glass liter mug. Now to be observed, is a cloudy dark apricot-amber liquid, with a just-off-white head that seems to be enduring. True to its label, this smells hoppy, complexly hoppy, with pine and resin and maybe citrus, too. To taste, the hops start immediately, first comes the citrus aspect. Then, for most of the experience it's a resinous and earthy bite. It dries out at the finish, so the hops provide a pine-like conclusion. But the body is sweet enough to counterbalance all the bitterness. Unfortunately, that sweetness is no where near to the complexity of the hopping. The other deficient is the body running a little thinly, especially for this much bold taste. Overall, this has a great, but not extreme, hop presence for hop heads. Yet, it balances that nicely with some sweet starchiness. There's even a little stratified glass lacing. What alcohol there is to taste augments the overall. It's just short of a great medium to be mentioned as world class.

Can dated 8/6/22 (uh oh...) into pint glass. Pours a murky dark honey color with a brief off-white head. No lacing. Initial impression is slightly spicy citrus, grapefruit,berries, and a touch of pine. Mouthfeel is juicy and slightly astringent. Finish is citrus fading to a little residual sweetness and an odd but not entirely off-putting aftertaste. I would like to try this fresh.

 

 

What makes a DIPA? Is it the malts used? The ABV? This beer is not so malty very fruit forward and quite an approachable 7.7% compared to other takes on the style clocking in at 8-9% . Very fruits hazy and after just 5 months very full of sediment so unfiltered. Tasty regardless!

Canned 8/4/22 (4.5 months ago)

Appearance: Pours a moderately clouded orange color with tons of visible white sediment pieces floating in the glass that eventually settle. A moderate white head. SRM of 9. (4.00)

Aroma: Strong aromas of pine papaya, nectarine, berries. Grapefruit and tea notes linger. (3.75)

Flavor: Strong and juicy flavors of grapefruit citrus and pineapple upfront. This turns into a tropical papaya and berry flavor that carry through to the finish. Balanced by some pine and mildly sweet. (4.00)

Feel: Medium-bodied. Strong carbonation. A mild bitterness on the palate. (4.00)

Compared to Pipeworks Friday Night Dice 12/2022: Pours darker, hazier, more sediment. Stronger aromas. More grapefruit and pine. Less resinous melon, berries, and Mosaic notes.

Overall: A nice and rich DIPA here. Grapefruit and pine balanced by tropical melon and berries. All around good stuff. Made with a bunch of different hops for a bunch of different flavors. Lots of hop flavors and drinks well. (Rating: 3.94)

Poured from a 16 oz. can. Has a hazy, golden/orange color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of tropical fruits. Taste is mango, pineapple, oranges, moderate bitterness. Feels medium/full bodied in the mouth and overall is a decent beer.

16o can from BTR Brews. Golden pour, mostly clear, thin white head, rings of lacing. Dank, hoppy aroma, tropical fruit. Dank, hoppy taste, pineapple, mango . Dries out a bit at the back. Full feel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Floyds Brewing, LLC "Cheer Team Ale"
1 pint can "PKGD ON 08\04\22 Q0E27" and sampled on 10/19/22
$5.49 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ

Notes via stream of consciousness: Wow, there are large chucks of protein floating around in this! The body is a cloudy golden with an orange sheen and the proteins are a light tan. It looks like a polka dot beer! The head is a thumb's width of rocky white foam. The proteins are now starting to settle at the bottom of the glass and although it was initially interesting to look at it doesn't look so good now. The aroma offers some swetish and lightly bready malt as well as a whiff of citrusy hops. I don't normally expect a lot of aroma from a double IPA but I think this could be fuller. The taste is much more hoppy but it still remains kind of dull overall. It's fruity with notes of orange, mango, apple, pear, dull grapefruit, and soft pineapple. It's juicy but at the same time nothing really pops, the flavors kind of just clump together. It's firmly bitter, and slightly acidic. Maybe it's me but I'm not finding this to be anything special. Let me give it another go... there's not a whole lot in the aroma but I am now getting a note of peach, some passionfruit, and some papaya. It's also grassy, softly herbal, and lightly piney. The alcohol has a pretty good presence as well which is a little odd at 7.7%. I know that's close to 8% but even if it was 8% it seems a little stronger than it should be. The malt is sweetish, lightly bready, and a touch honeyish. It finishes fruity but kind of watery in that sense, and dry with bitterness and alcohol, leaving only some minor grassiness and dusty herbs to linger. In the mouth it's medium bodied on the fuller side, and crisp with a little bit of a snap from the alcohol. The head held up pretty well, and the lacing is great. What's before me now looks like dragons fighting amidst splashing sea foam, I shit you not! That's great but it's not enough to make up for the layer of gunk at the bottom of my glass. There's a lot of it. I've been a professional brewer since 1996, and I've drank a whole lot of beer since then and I've never seen anything like this. Well, yes, there was one extremely weird case of a Canadian lager (I can't remember which but I think it was Molson Golden) that had a whitish substance at the bottom of each bottle that I've never been able to figure out. It looked like a lava lamp, but I digress. So, overall, this is an OK double IPA but all of the hype on the label about "virtually every hop product known to man" is just nonsense. Oddly I've just written this same exact thing about the last beer I reviewed: you should never promise more than you can deliver, and you should always deliver more than you promise. This is just OK.
Review #8,331