Crown Jewels
Dragonmead Microbrewery
- From:
- Dragonmead Microbrewery
- Michigan, United States
- Style:
- English IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.61 | pDev: 13.02%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 83
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 05, 2020
- Added:
- Jan 17, 2006
- Wants:
- 4
- Gots:
- 11
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by JimboBrews54 from Michigan
5/5 rDev +38.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +38.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
It poured a murky copper hue with a bubbly beige head. Aroma of orange, cloves, and a hint of hops. Taste is spicy sweet and sour maltiness. Bought this on a recommendation, and although I was glad to try an IPA that’s well off the typical IPA path.
Jun 10, 2019
Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
3.25/5 rDev -10%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -10%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Clear rich orange hue.
Off-white head; minimal lace.
Bread & light citrus nose.
Medium thick mouthfeel.
Old bread flavor dominates any hop profile. Old perhaps?
Feb 20, 2017Off-white head; minimal lace.
Bread & light citrus nose.
Medium thick mouthfeel.
Old bread flavor dominates any hop profile. Old perhaps?
Rated by Joebraggot from Michigan
1.5/5 rDev -58.4%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
1.5/5 rDev -58.4%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
Old school skunk taste BAD
Jan 25, 2015
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
3.49/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.49/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Bottle, unknown date:
The beer pours a burnt orange to faded brown, and fairly cloudy. For an IPA, this seems a bit mis-colored, as it's far from pale. The white head builds up nice in an average strength pour, and does stick around in a film on the surface and medium thick on the edges. The foamy edges lace the glass, saving the look rating from being sub-avg.
The nose is honey and biscuit like in nature, a little on the sweet side. The nose is a bit malty for an IPA, but nice. I do get a bit of caramel also, and that does fit in a bit with the English style IPAs I have had. I also get some hints of dark fruit.
As expected, this beer is a bit on the malty side, with a dark-bread sweetness. The English IPA features or caramel and noble hops are evident and balance quite well. If the hops came out a little more, I think I'd rate it a bit higher. There is a raisin taste in the background, as well. This is a medium body, low carbonation feel beer.
Actually, this beer was quite enjoyable. I do prefer American IPAs to English IPAs in general, but as stated, this doesn't seem to quite fit into either. This beer seems a little bit like a Dopplebock or Dubbel in its sweetness. Perhaps I just haven't had many maltier English IPAs. Ignoring styles, this was a very enjoyable beer.
Jan 18, 2015The beer pours a burnt orange to faded brown, and fairly cloudy. For an IPA, this seems a bit mis-colored, as it's far from pale. The white head builds up nice in an average strength pour, and does stick around in a film on the surface and medium thick on the edges. The foamy edges lace the glass, saving the look rating from being sub-avg.
The nose is honey and biscuit like in nature, a little on the sweet side. The nose is a bit malty for an IPA, but nice. I do get a bit of caramel also, and that does fit in a bit with the English style IPAs I have had. I also get some hints of dark fruit.
As expected, this beer is a bit on the malty side, with a dark-bread sweetness. The English IPA features or caramel and noble hops are evident and balance quite well. If the hops came out a little more, I think I'd rate it a bit higher. There is a raisin taste in the background, as well. This is a medium body, low carbonation feel beer.
Actually, this beer was quite enjoyable. I do prefer American IPAs to English IPAs in general, but as stated, this doesn't seem to quite fit into either. This beer seems a little bit like a Dopplebock or Dubbel in its sweetness. Perhaps I just haven't had many maltier English IPAs. Ignoring styles, this was a very enjoyable beer.
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