Dragon Series: Magenta Dragon
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 4.05%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 18, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 03, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.78/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
750ml bottle poured into Sam Adams pint glass.
Pours a clear copper with half a finger of off-white head that leaves spiky volcanic rock lace as it recedes.
Smells of peach cobbler, orange peel, fresh bread, flower shop and mild piney hops.
Tastes of muddled citrus flesh, sweet crusty bread, spiced peaches and more resiny floral hops.
Feels soft and thick. Medium-full bodied with frothy carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Recommended. Not their best, but definitely good.
Feb 18, 2017Pours a clear copper with half a finger of off-white head that leaves spiky volcanic rock lace as it recedes.
Smells of peach cobbler, orange peel, fresh bread, flower shop and mild piney hops.
Tastes of muddled citrus flesh, sweet crusty bread, spiced peaches and more resiny floral hops.
Feels soft and thick. Medium-full bodied with frothy carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Recommended. Not their best, but definitely good.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, the latest in Alley Kat's line of single-hopped (mostly) DIPAs, this time made with the El Dorado varietal.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some sudsy coral reef lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus pith, some peach/apricot Okanagan orchard goodness, a touch of candy sugar, ephemeral yeasty notes, and some minor leafy, weedy, and wet piney green hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, candied tropical fruit, canned peaches, a still extant earthy yeastiness, and more tame weedy, herbal, and somewhat perfumed floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its easy-going and yet sometimes prickly frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with perhaps a hint of that acrid floral character taking a bit off of the top, as it were. It finishes well off-dry, as the robustly fruity hoppiness clings to the lingering house malt like the good to go prom date that it is.
Overall, this is one of the more estery and perfumed renditions of this Dragon series of single-hopped DIPAs - that's not to say that it's a bad thing, but the crisp citrus and testy verdant essences kind of get lost in the mire. Ah well, still a relative pleasure to put back, as the 15-proof booze is as well-integrated as ever was.
Dec 04, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some sudsy coral reef lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus pith, some peach/apricot Okanagan orchard goodness, a touch of candy sugar, ephemeral yeasty notes, and some minor leafy, weedy, and wet piney green hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, candied tropical fruit, canned peaches, a still extant earthy yeastiness, and more tame weedy, herbal, and somewhat perfumed floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its easy-going and yet sometimes prickly frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with perhaps a hint of that acrid floral character taking a bit off of the top, as it were. It finishes well off-dry, as the robustly fruity hoppiness clings to the lingering house malt like the good to go prom date that it is.
Overall, this is one of the more estery and perfumed renditions of this Dragon series of single-hopped DIPAs - that's not to say that it's a bad thing, but the crisp citrus and testy verdant essences kind of get lost in the mire. Ah well, still a relative pleasure to put back, as the 15-proof booze is as well-integrated as ever was.
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