Three Floyds to exclusively use Dark Matter Coffee

it's not as if we'll taste it past all the sweetness in Dark Lord so no big deal, really

 

Too bad. Intelligentsia is better.

 

Who cares? (rhetorical question)

 

Subjective much?

 

Name seems like a good match for FFF

 

Crap. Hells Black gone forever. Was hoping it would make its way into bottles someday too.

 

Crap, mini snifters gone forever.

 

i tell people that dark lord has coffee in it and they don't believe me until they see it on the bottle themselves. i've never been table to taste the coffee in it myself either.

 

Really? I didn't have a problem picking it up on the '13. '11 is even more noticeable.

'12, I'd probably agree with you. That was just a beetus bomb.

 

had '13 on tap at dld, no coffee taste. had a '11 sometime in '12, no coffee taste there either. guess my palate is just weird.

 

Its not just your palate. I don't get any actual coffee flavours in all of the last 3 vintages I've tried, so my palate is just as fucked up as yours, I suppose.

 

took the words right out of my mouth, on a side note this new garun stout that hit chicago tastes and smells like dark lord with less diabetes

 

FTFY.

 

They should make a porter with the second runnings and call it Less Beetus.

 

WHEN you can taste the coffee, you can taste where it comes from. There is a local coffee maker here in Orange County that The Bruery, Noble Ale Works and some others use called Portola Coffee. Mocha Wednesday and Naughty Sauce are brewed with it. You can definitely tell that is Portola Coffee. A very distinct flavor profile.

Whether or not you can taste the coffee at all, well that will be a FFF problem

BCBCS is a coffee bomb and I love it.

 

2011 was so strong when it came out my friends and I called it Coffee Dark Lord. The flavor faded fast over the first two weeks though. It made it one of the worst ones to age imo because now you can still taste it, but it has that old coffee green pepper thing going on.

 

guys at the end of the day the coffee is buried in that beer but come on, name a more metal sounding local coffee company then dark matter. Unless ipsento is the name of some dark demon I'm unaware of.

 

<Obligatory it will be sweet again this year and you'll all max your allocation anyways because whalez comment here>

 

I'm just as big of a coffee geek as I am a beer geek (we have a commercial espresso machine plumbed into our house) and I think this is an interesting change. I love Intellegentsia but lately Dark Matter has been killing it. For a traditional chocolate bomb espresso, which is what works well in beer, I prefer Unicorn Blood over Black Cat. Several years ago, Intellegentsia changed Black Cat from a traditional espresso (chocolate leaning) to a third wave espresso (citrus leaning), hence why there is normal Black Cat (the new formulation) and Analog Black Cat (supposedly the old formulation). With that said, Intellegenstia has a much more varied selection of other blends/roasts and their single origin offerings are tough to beat. Of course, they're much, much larger than Dark Matter so things like those snifters and mugs might not be as plentiful (but really this is just having someone screen your logo on a cheap piece of glassware so it's not that tough to pull off).