2/9/10
Damn Statistics
In the craft beer world, hype can push brews and breweries to mythical status. Most of the top ones can back it up. When it comes to Three Floyds Brewing Company, I can throw out tons of stats about how popular their beer is. Ratebeer.com's recent ratings put them at the top of heap for Best Brewers for 2009 and 2010. Various incarnations of their (brewery only-don't call us) Dark Lord Imperial Stout always anchor the Top 10 of sought-after beer lists. In the just released Beer Advocate Best of 2010 issue, their Imperial IPA, Dreadnaught, was in the #12 spot of Most Wanted Beers and All-Time Top Beers on Planet Earth lists.
Their massively dry Black Sun Stout has been riding the top of the Beer Advocate and RateBeer Dry Stout list until it recently slipped to #3 on both. This is easily the driest Stout I've had, with underlying hints of licorice, chocolate and coffee. But they're barely there. It's all about the hoppy dryness.
Alpha Klaus, their Christmas Porter, is currently the #7 American Porter on Beer Advocate and the #7 Imperial/Strong Porter on RateBeer.
Their 12%ABV sipper Behemoth, an immense and complex Barleywine, sits at #7 on RateBeer and Beer Advocate's Barleywine lists.
So....yeah...that all made me thirsty...um...what was my point here...?...that was it I guess...
Oh yeah...OK...we got a case of each of these, plus one of Gorch Fock, their German-style Helles Lager.
Have @ it. They won't last long. (Thanks, Lincoln, you rock)
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3 comments:
I think I was the first to jump in my car and get over there.... yum! Can't wait to drink some of these beauties!
Only thing I dont like about FFF is the price of their bombers. Dare I ask what they run? I payed 12 bucks for a bottle of Dreadnaught in Chicago. It was really good, but just not .50 per oz good.
The Dreadnaught case lasted less than 24 hours, but Black Sun Stout and Alpha Klaus are $9.99, Gorch Fock is $10.99 and Behemoth is $17.99. It's a special occasion type thing, which works our well since being able to get a hold of them is a rare occasion, too.
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