brew dog blog

First of all, let me apologize profusely for the egregious punning in the title. It hit me and I couldn’t resist. I’ll try to keep that to a minimum from now on. Wait, no I won’t!

Three Floyd’s is one of those breweries which is legendary in NYC for a variety of reasons — Dark Lord, their Imperial Stout, is said to be one of the best American examples of the style, very ageable and very delicious. Their hoppy beers are also quite well regarded, and additionally, you can’t get any of them here. The Dreadnaught DIPA was part of a trade I conducted and I was very excited to get my hands on this, one of my favorite current styles of beer. Alternating between overwhelming hoppy beers and overwhelming yeasty and sour beers is messing my head up, but I’m enjoying the challenge. I’m quite sure you pity me.

Dreadnaught is pretty much everything I look for in a DIPA. It pours a gorgeous almost orange color with a fluffy head and is one of those DIPAs that just stinks right out of the bottle. Enormous hop character on the nose runs the gamut from Piney to Citrusy and back again, hitting all the notes right on time. Ever since downing a Southern Tier Unearthly a few weeks back, I have been paying close attention to the body of these huge beers, and Dreadnaught does skirt the syrupy line a bit too hard for me. If it was thinned out a bit, it would be more drinkable, but hey, what can ya do. Massive alcohol (9.5% ABV) is pretty well masked, but does drink pretty hot by the end of the bottle. All told, this is a pretty drinkable DIPA which balances the malt well enough to not make it hard to drink, but keeps the Hops forward. I have a few other FFF beers in my fridge (still haven’t scored a Dark Lord — any volunteers?) that I look forward to jamming on as this was a very successful and immensely enjoyable brew. Don’t let the punning ruin it for you.