3 Floyds Brewing Company Dark Lord: Brandy Vanilla Bean

Dark Lord: Brandy Vanilla Bean

 

3 Floyds Brewing Company in Munster, Indiana, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Special Out of Production
Score
8.40
ABV: 15.5% IBU: - Ticks: 30
This is our massive Russian-style Imperial Stout aged for one year in a brandy barrel with Madagascar vanilla beans. Thick, smooth, complex, and warming, this rare beer with certainly be remembered. Available at Dark Lord Day 2011
 

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8.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

19K Rating. Bottle. Pours motor oil black with small tan head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is strong vanilla, brandy, oak. Slick body, vanilla, light roast, brandy, nice sweetness, smooth and held up very well, really enjoyed this.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Feb 2019 at 03:59


8.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle thanks to Eric pours out black with a brown ring of a head. Nose is Big Brandy Barrel vanilla roast malts molasses brown sugar. Taste is more of the nice Brandy barrels big vanilla sweet malts chocolate fudge brown sugar molasses coffee.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Sep 2017 at 18:06


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Draft. A black beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of vanilla, roasted malt, soy sauce, liquor, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, vanilla, alcohol, and liquor, chocolate, leading to a dry roasted finish.

Tried from Draft on 12 Jan 2017 at 13:19


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9.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10

Bottle shared at the Moeder Lambic cellar session 2015 along with the full 2011 lineup. Pours black with a short lived brown head. Aroma is insane marshmallow upfront, even more than BVDL, brandy coming out, oak, marzipan, dark chocolate and fudge. Flavour is heavy sweet, but not dark lord cloying. Full bodied with soft carbonation. Marshmallow just hanging around in the finish for ages. Just incredible, and so happy to have been able to try this.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Oct 2015 at 11:11




7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

on tap-pours midnight black and still. Aroma is sweet cocoa/molasses-dark malt, brandy, vanilla. Taste is sweet chocolate cherry-dark malt, brandy, vanilla, some alcohol/wood. Occasional, sipping.

Tried from Draft on 02 Jun 2012 at 13:21


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

7th April 2012
ChrisOs Easter Tasting. Opaque black beer, short lived tan head. Light semi dry palate. Amazingly not too boozy! Smells like dark chocolate ice cream. Taste follows the nose. Lovely vanilla dark chocolate malt with a brandy twist. It’s just amazingly light and drinkable. Softish finish with just a little warmth coming through. A real treat for a sweet tooth.

Tried on 15 Apr 2012 at 08:46


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at Chriso’s Easter tasting 2012. Number 346 thanks to legend that is madmitch76. It pours jet black, with a quickly dissipating tan head. The nose is chocolate ice-cream, lots of vanilla, coffee liqueur, roasted malt and chocolate gateaux. The taste is caramel, toffee, ice-cream, vanilla, chocolate, alcohol warmth, coffee liqueur, chocolate cake, touch of soy sauce, toasted sesame seed, cherry, brandy, wood and roasted malt, with a sweet, warming finish. Full body, fine, prickly carbonation and sticky mouth-feel. There’s no denying this is very sweet, but it’s very enjoyable in small measures. Definitely a desert beer.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Apr 2012 at 13:40


8.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle at chrisOs... bottle 346... huge black ... thinest tan lacing ... huge toffee chocolate roast ... light meaty... boozy nose ... sweet roast ... big vanilla ... dark roast ... soft mellow brandy in the linger

Tried from Bottle on 07 Apr 2012 at 11:15