Dark Lord
3 Floyds Brewing Co.

2014 vintage opened 6/18/25.

Pours black with faint red hues. Trace amount of mocha head that quickly vanishes into a small ring of bubbles. Nose is vanilla, dark rum, and brown sugar. Taste is milk chocolate, vanilla, anise, cassia bark, and sarsaparilla. Syrupy and sticky mouthfeel with low-to-moderate carbonation, which makes sense given the eleven years of age. Finish ends with a somewhat bitter dark chocolate note. This has held up wonderfully although I cannot take credit for storage conditions as I purchased it from someone else that indicated it was cellared at 55 degrees.

 

 

 

 

 

I shared a bottle w Beer Advocates July 2025.
It had the magenta glitter wax top. Quite sweet with chocolate notes throughout. Barrel, dark fruits, it is slightly drying but as a sipper it doesn't ask that much. Booze taste is very light. An incredible beer.

A rich and decadent imperial stout with a very powerful taste and smell combining Mexican Vanilla, Indian Sugar, and Coffee. Only the most worthy drink Three Floyd’s rarest, darkest, and baddest beer.

 

A friend gave me a bottle of 2009

A - Pours an opaque black with brown highlights. Minimal dark brown head, no lacing.

S - Nose is dark fruit, rich chocolate, vanilla over sharp booziness.

T - Follows the nose, an opening with bright dark fruit, raisin and plum, the middle bring dark chocolate and vanilla, and a bit of dryness as the raisin and chocolate trail with booze present on the tongue.

M - The age has stolen all carbonation. Though still, the years also reduce the weight, so it is probably more drinkable than fresher versions.

O - The age has reduced many of the stout features, adding barleywine notes. The booze is big, and chocolate is strong, with dark fruit at the core.

Had a 2019 vintage at Fabled Brew Works for my birthday.
2021 at Fabled Brew Works from secret stash Tuesday

Bottled in 2012.

Bottled in 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ba beer #2300

Brewers Notes: A demonic Russian-Style Imperial Stout brewed with coffee, Mexican vanilla, and Indian sugar, this beer defies description. Available one day a year, in April at the brewery: Dark Lord Day.

Vintage guide: Black wax wrapped label = 2020

Bottle received in bif17 courtesy of @ovaltine

Room temperature bottle poured into a pretentious beer glass. Dark cola brown liquid, little foam , settles to a ring

Aroma is coffee,molasses, brown sugar, tobacco

Taste is coffee, dark fruits, raisins, tobacco, char , port wine

Sudsy mouthfeel, lighter than I expected , boozy

Good beer, reminds me more of a barley wine than a RIS