Cimmerian Sabertooth Berzerker
3 Floyds Brewing Company in Munster, Indiana, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.59
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Another excellent IPA from 3F. Full of bright citrus and tropical notes, backed up by a mild sweetness and a good bit of dank. Finishes with a firm pine bitter streak and lingering citrus zest. Excellent pint.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled in 1/2014. Pours very hazy deep golden/orange/amber/light copper color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky cream colored head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, lime, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, honeydew melon, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, onion, mint, peppercorn, pine, honey, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit/dough, nuttiness, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and dark/bready malt notes with big strength. Taste of huge red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, lime, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, honeydew melon, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, onion, mint, peppercorn, pine, honey, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit/dough, nuttiness, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, minty, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, lime, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, honeydew melon, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, onion, mint, peppercorn, pine, honey, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit/dough, nuttiness, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and dark/bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance; and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and fairly full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready/sticky, fairly resinous/rindy, and lightly slick/syrupy mouthfeel that is great. Mildly increasing warmth of 9% after the finish. Overall this is an awesome DIPA. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and dark/bready malt flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the big ABV, with the mellowly bitter/resinous/drying finish. Great soft feel for the ABV, and not overly aggressive. Feels like a lot of Warrior, Columbus, Chinook, and Summit. Very juicy, vibrant, dank, and earthy hops; with a large sized dark/bready malt backbone. Light residual sweetness with lingering resin dryness. A really enjoyable offering, and impressive style example. Held up extremely well for the age. Reminds me of SN Bigfoot a lot at this point, but already was expecting that.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap @ Mikkeller Bar. Pours hazy dark orange with a medium white head. Aromas of sweet malts, orange, citrus, earthy, piney. Taste is malty, sweet orange, piney, citrus, orange peel, bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Conan the Barbarian-themed IIPA by Three Floyds, bomber shared by Ster, big cheers for this one sis! Tightly lacing, thick, regular, stable, egg-white head, hazy ochre-tinged orange blonde robe. Strong and very ’dank’ aroma: pine resin, wet marihuana, stale armpit sweat, moldy grapefruit, old oranges, frying oil, biscuit, sweet cicely, green olives, gin. Lush fruitiness in the onset, ripe mango, yellow kiwi, lychee, granadilla; softish carbonation, oily and somewhat vinous but also ’fluffy’ mouthfeel, thick and full but not betraying its 9% ABV at this stage. Soft biscuity malt sweet backbone provides structure for the construction of a long, very aromatic and very dank hoppiness, with grapefruity bitterness and strong retronasal aromas of moldy oranges, stale sweat, pine and red onion, mingled with a dash of warming, bourbon-like alcohol. Anything but subtle and among the most dank double or imperial IPAs I had to date, I think, but a great one if you like this style. I sure do.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Super hazy amber and copper coloured body with a thinnish, fast-dying tan head, about a centimetre tall. Aroma of rich resinous and piney hops showing some perfume and a good deal of both alcohol and a big malt backbone. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong rich malty flavours show first with a nice metallic and astringent quality that shows well, along with some grassy and perfumey hoppy flavours near the end, along with a steady stream of sugars from apricots, pears and a touch of caster sugar. Aftertaste is rich and strong and hits hard up front with the metal and malt strongest along with the alcohol warmth and the pungent hops that shows all the way to the bitter end. Overall, a nice beer, but hardly a stellar Imperial IPA or beer worth searching out for. Peel off the label before sampling this and you’ll rate it the correct way. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from King Richard’s Wine & Spirits in Michigan City, Indiana on 09-September-2015 for US$10,99 sampled at home in Washington on 20-February-2017. Bottled on 24-March-2015. Bottled On: 24-March-2015 // Purchased: 09-September-2015 // Sampled: 20-February-2017
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Yum, great stuff. Lots of grapefruit, some malt in the aroma. Flavor’s similar to nose, balanced bittersweet with a little resin in the Finish.
gave a cheers!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Crowler from J’s. Pours a deep gold to pale orange with a finger of foam that lingers. Huge orange nose with pineapple, mango and resin notes. Clean and hides the abv fairly well. Crisp carbonation. Lighter in body than some other 3F beers, feels more west coast in body. More citrus and resin. Bitter finish that lingers, orange marmalade. Awesome.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Refrigerated brown bomber poured into a snifter. Hazy orange with medium off-white head. Aroma is grapefruit & some caramel malt, medium body, medium carbonation, and small bubble lacing. Taste is grapefruit, caramel malt, and slightly bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle thanks to the Traveling Wilbury himself, Jeff. A dark copper color with a medium white head. A big malty nose, toffee and berry. The flavor is really intense sweet malts, citrus, bitter at times, a big hoppy barley wine really in terms of flavor. Quite nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at the August THT, Den Haag. Poured a hazy medium amber with a thin broken white head. The aroma is citrus fruit, big grassy hop. The flavour is strong bitter with a big fruity, peppermint, resin, nettle hop palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.