Dragon Series: Alberta Dragon
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.87 | pDev: 8.27%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 16, 2015
- Added:
- Oct 02, 2015
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 2
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Mlkluther from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Likely the best of the dragon series from Alley Kat. I've enjoyed these offerings from our local Brewer. A clean, crisp IPA with some unique flavour notes that I can't nail down - but enjoyable nonetheless.
Dec 16, 2015
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.01/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.01/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
650ml bottle - an apt release, right in the middle of the inaugural Alberta Beer Week, and made with Alberta malt, as usual, and now wet hops from the Northern Girls hop farm west of Edmonton (and still east of Edson).
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three generous fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent stacked parkade profile lace around the glass as it genially recedes.
It smells of acrid pine needle resin, an herbal floral thing, suggestions of spicy metallic mint, grainy, and lightly doughy caramel malt, muted citrus pith, subtle earthy yeast, and further leafy, weedy and perfumed hop bitters. The taste is bready, crackery pale and caramel malt, gritty pine tree droppings, a still muddled citrus acridity, more mint-tinged spicy green notes, a faint earthy chalkiness, and more leafy, grassy, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly solid in its frothy and fizzy handling of my palate's equally supportive and frivolous expectations, the body a pleasant middleweight, and surprisingly smooth - these hops having a certain, oh, I dunno, feminine touch, maybe some TLC (save your letters)? It finishes off-dry, with a malt that never seems to consider giving up, especially when countered by a still sassy and sanguine hop bitterness.
Yeah, the underside of the cap says 'No' (what is THAT about?), but everything that follows says yes, yes, and yes! Not your typical trip through the intricacies of the Centennial and Cascade hop varietals, but I'd wager that our northern latitude has impressed some sort of distinct terroir type of effect on said hops employed here. And I shall drink heartily and joyfully to THAT.
Oct 02, 2015This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three generous fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent stacked parkade profile lace around the glass as it genially recedes.
It smells of acrid pine needle resin, an herbal floral thing, suggestions of spicy metallic mint, grainy, and lightly doughy caramel malt, muted citrus pith, subtle earthy yeast, and further leafy, weedy and perfumed hop bitters. The taste is bready, crackery pale and caramel malt, gritty pine tree droppings, a still muddled citrus acridity, more mint-tinged spicy green notes, a faint earthy chalkiness, and more leafy, grassy, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly solid in its frothy and fizzy handling of my palate's equally supportive and frivolous expectations, the body a pleasant middleweight, and surprisingly smooth - these hops having a certain, oh, I dunno, feminine touch, maybe some TLC (save your letters)? It finishes off-dry, with a malt that never seems to consider giving up, especially when countered by a still sassy and sanguine hop bitterness.
Yeah, the underside of the cap says 'No' (what is THAT about?), but everything that follows says yes, yes, and yes! Not your typical trip through the intricacies of the Centennial and Cascade hop varietals, but I'd wager that our northern latitude has impressed some sort of distinct terroir type of effect on said hops employed here. And I shall drink heartily and joyfully to THAT.
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