Dragon Series: Cerulean Dragon
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 4.02%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 03, 2016
- Added:
- Aug 13, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
4.03/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
650ml bottle poured into Sam Adams pint glass.
Pours a clear copper with half a finger of off-white head that leaves rocky lunar landscape lace as it recedes.
Smells of rising bread dough, candied apple slices, citrus peel and lightly piney hops.
Tastes of more more grainy dough, walnut skin, apple skin, muddled citrus oil and pine resin.
Feels soft and sturdy. Medium bodied with frothy carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Highly recommended. These all seem to be really good.
Dec 03, 2016Pours a clear copper with half a finger of off-white head that leaves rocky lunar landscape lace as it recedes.
Smells of rising bread dough, candied apple slices, citrus peel and lightly piney hops.
Tastes of more more grainy dough, walnut skin, apple skin, muddled citrus oil and pine resin.
Feels soft and sturdy. Medium bodied with frothy carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Highly recommended. These all seem to be really good.
Reviewed by andrenaline from Canada (ON)
3.99/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Another solid brew in the double dragon series. Props to joemcgrath27 for the hook up on this gem. Suprisingly bitter with earthy pine and citrus notes on both the nose and tongue. Sour bitterness lingers, and a solid musty caramel malt backbone comes through. Abother solid brew in the series and stoked to have gotten the chance to taste it.
Nov 10, 2016
Reviewed by MAB from Canada (AB)
4.29/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.29/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
A very tasty dragon that they've cooked up here.
Can't go wrong with almost any in their dragon series, but this one is worth seeeking out.
Very hoppy aroma and lots of bitterness, rather than pure hop flavor.
If you like your beers to be "in your face", then this does the trick.
Oct 20, 2016Can't go wrong with almost any in their dragon series, but this one is worth seeeking out.
Very hoppy aroma and lots of bitterness, rather than pure hop flavor.
If you like your beers to be "in your face", then this does the trick.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.96/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle, the latest in the Dragon Series of single (mostly) hopped double IPAs, this time made with the Calypso varietal. It sure is nice to see a new beer that isn't some form of a bloody sour! And yes, cerulean is a type of blue.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and sort of creamy ecru head, which leaves some layered cirrus cloud lace around the glass as it lazily retreats.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, pear syrup, muddled citrus zest, a twinge of earthy yeast, and further floral, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, still disjointed citrus esters, a kind of pear that I typically don't buy (so, not Bartlett), some niggling metallic alcohol warming, maybe a bit of table-top spice, and more leafy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The bubbles are quite active in their palate-probing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and pretty smooth, with a nice aerosol creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the base malt holding tough amongst the lingering fruity, spicy, and forest flora-esque hops.
Overall, the Calypso hop seems more than capable of holding its own, on its own here - and it's not particularly bitter, more, as noted, fruity and spicy. Anyways, another cool and tasty offering from Alley Kat, even if this one's name sounds like something out of Star Trek or Game of Thrones.
Aug 14, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and sort of creamy ecru head, which leaves some layered cirrus cloud lace around the glass as it lazily retreats.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, pear syrup, muddled citrus zest, a twinge of earthy yeast, and further floral, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, still disjointed citrus esters, a kind of pear that I typically don't buy (so, not Bartlett), some niggling metallic alcohol warming, maybe a bit of table-top spice, and more leafy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The bubbles are quite active in their palate-probing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and pretty smooth, with a nice aerosol creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the base malt holding tough amongst the lingering fruity, spicy, and forest flora-esque hops.
Overall, the Calypso hop seems more than capable of holding its own, on its own here - and it's not particularly bitter, more, as noted, fruity and spicy. Anyways, another cool and tasty offering from Alley Kat, even if this one's name sounds like something out of Star Trek or Game of Thrones.
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