Floyd D'Rue
The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: 3 Floyds Brewing CompanyPorter - Imperial Rotating Out of Production
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Score
6.82
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Floyd D’Rue is one half of a collaboration between Three Floyds Brewing Co and The Bruery. Both breweries being known throughout the kingdom of beer geeks for larger than life barrel aged beers, it was only fitting that this brew would be something of a similar scale. Working together to create a brand new recipe for an imperial porter at 14.7% ABV, the beer was then laid to rest in rum barrels for one year. Going with a spiced rum theme, additions of vanilla bean, orange zest, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, star anise, nutmeg and fresh ginger were added just prior to bottling. The result is a fantastically robust ale with hints of citrus, rum, chocolate, molasses, exotic spices and toasty oak.
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Leighton (34941) reviewed Floyd D'Rue from The Bruery 9 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Strange stuff, ample autumnal spicing, toasted malts, tangy berries. Mild booze. Earth. So so. Cheers to Kenny.
Fergus (31329) reviewed Floyd D'Rue from The Bruery 9 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Many thanks. A dark black mahogany brown coloured pour with a halo of beige head. Aroma is semi sweet, sticky liquorice, black jack, salty roast, sticky brown sugars. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, sticky, tangy, lemon, liquorice, salty, alcohol. Rum barrel, spicy.. Little harsh.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Floyd D'Rue from The Bruery 9 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
28th May 2025
CBJ bottle share, thanks to me for the bottle. Near clear dark brown beer, small bubbly tan head. Airy palate, semi dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Light bodied dark malts, a mild dark chocolate. Good cinnamon spice, powerful but tempered by the bold rum barrel, tangy and fruity. Finish light and spicy and slightly medicinal. Intense, off its tits and thoroughly entertaining.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Floyd D'Rue from The Bruery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750ml bottle pours out dark brown almost black topped with a small tan head. Nose is a ton of spice nutmeg cinnamon chocolate vanilla lots of fun stuff going on. Taste is more of the nice spice mix plenty of sweetness and barrel vanilla.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Floyd D'Rue from The Bruery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sample at the Inventory Reduction Beer Tasting on 08/08/2015. Deep dark brown color with a medium thick khaki head that recedes gradually. Partial rings of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of oak, chocolate, malt and spice. Full-bodied with flavors of oaky bourbon, roast malt, dark chocolate and cinnamon. The finish is sweet and boozy with a spiced rum/bourbon and malt aftertaste. Pretty good beer all around.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Floyd D'Rue from The Bruery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours like black syrup. Intense nutty, roasted, rum notes. And again mint. Mint, rum, sweet-roasted stout notes. Aniseed is there indeed. Syrupy feel, fiery alcoholheat. Not my taste - infected?
WingmanWillis (38284) ticked Floyd D'Rue from The Bruery 10 years ago
DSG (25977) reviewed Floyd D'Rue from The Bruery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
[2/18/15] Draught at The Bruery in Placentia. 2014 edition. Opaque black. Aroma of chocolate, wood and lots of rum and alcohol. Sweet flavor with chocolate, wood and lots of boozy rum. Medium to full-bodied. Good, but too much boozy rum for my liking.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Floyd D'Rue from The Bruery 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at GTMW ticket wait out line 2014, presumably Ben. Rummy, boozy, rich, pretty tasty. Steady beige head. Syrupy sweet booze finish. Very heavy, liqueur like. More like a spiced rum than a Porter. Really tasty. I like it. Unique.