Spirit Dog
Yukon Brewing
- From:
- Yukon Brewing
- Yukon, Canada
- Style:
- English Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.2 | pDev: 0.95%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 30, 2016
- Added:
- Apr 16, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
4.15/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.15/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance - Pours a opaque chocolate brown with a finger width of bubbly off-white head.
Smell - Bready malts, plum, fig, earthy/leafy hops, dry cocoa, caramel/toffee.
Taste - Plum and fig (dark fruits) along with bready malts, earthy/leafy hops, and caramel/toffee. Slight woodiness. Finishes sweet with a little alcohol.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with low-to-moderate carbonation. There is some warmth from the alcohol that lingers on the palate.
Overall - A unique twist to the Lead Dog Ale by amping up the flavours with the bierschnapps. It doesn't taste like an 11% ABV, so watch out (more of a sipper). The warming quality adds a nice touch.
May 08, 2016Smell - Bready malts, plum, fig, earthy/leafy hops, dry cocoa, caramel/toffee.
Taste - Plum and fig (dark fruits) along with bready malts, earthy/leafy hops, and caramel/toffee. Slight woodiness. Finishes sweet with a little alcohol.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with low-to-moderate carbonation. There is some warmth from the alcohol that lingers on the palate.
Overall - A unique twist to the Lead Dog Ale by amping up the flavours with the bierschnapps. It doesn't taste like an 11% ABV, so watch out (more of a sipper). The warming quality adds a nice touch.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.26/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.26/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
650ml bottle, a little experiment by Yukon wherein they used their Bier schnapps that they originally created by distilling Lead Dog Ale, to augment a fresh batch of said brew - how very full circle, and beer meta!
This beer pours a clear, dark rusted brick brown colour, with two skinny-ass fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves a bit of approaching iceberg profile lace around the glass as it quickly sinks out of sight.
It smells of dense and dark bready caramel malt, a further toffee/treacle thing, some heady plum, raisin, and dried cherry fruitiness, a twinge of earthy basement cellar mustiness, more brown sugar sweetness, and gentle leafy, weedy, and surprisingly un-perfumed floral hop bitters. The taste is fairly sugary doughy and brown-bread-like caramel malt, muddled dark orchard fruit (ok, some soused sultana raisins, if you must!), a generic damp earth mustiness, and more understated leafy, floral, and perhaps a tad grassy noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty low-key in its soft and almost lilting frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and quite smooth, with a small airy creaminess arising at this thing moves out of fridge temperature range. It finishes more or less sweet, but moderated to a certain degree by fruity, hoppy, and tame estery alcohol off-sets alike.
Overall, this is a pretty cool way of amping up the ABV of your most venerable full-time product - reduce it, and then add it back in to the next batch. I have images of a snake eating itself via munching on its own tail in my head right now, but that may just be an expected distortion due to the crazily integrated 22-proof booze 'astringency' they've managed to sneak in here. Wow.
Apr 17, 2016This beer pours a clear, dark rusted brick brown colour, with two skinny-ass fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves a bit of approaching iceberg profile lace around the glass as it quickly sinks out of sight.
It smells of dense and dark bready caramel malt, a further toffee/treacle thing, some heady plum, raisin, and dried cherry fruitiness, a twinge of earthy basement cellar mustiness, more brown sugar sweetness, and gentle leafy, weedy, and surprisingly un-perfumed floral hop bitters. The taste is fairly sugary doughy and brown-bread-like caramel malt, muddled dark orchard fruit (ok, some soused sultana raisins, if you must!), a generic damp earth mustiness, and more understated leafy, floral, and perhaps a tad grassy noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty low-key in its soft and almost lilting frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and quite smooth, with a small airy creaminess arising at this thing moves out of fridge temperature range. It finishes more or less sweet, but moderated to a certain degree by fruity, hoppy, and tame estery alcohol off-sets alike.
Overall, this is a pretty cool way of amping up the ABV of your most venerable full-time product - reduce it, and then add it back in to the next batch. I have images of a snake eating itself via munching on its own tail in my head right now, but that may just be an expected distortion due to the crazily integrated 22-proof booze 'astringency' they've managed to sneak in here. Wow.
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