Dragon Series: Copper Dragon
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 6.81%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 05, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 26, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by WanderingRonin from Canada (AB)
3.3/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.3/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Slightly hazy golden color with copper highlights to it, pours with a finger of frothy, bubbly, off-white colored head that has an amazing retention, leaving nice creamy lacing.
Fruity aroma of citrus fruit, some oranges and grapefruit maybe some mangoes.
Bittersweet citrusy flavor forward, oranges and grapefruit that along with the sweetness from the malt gives it a slight marmalade flavor along with some faint hints of melons and pine.
Pretty sweet tasting malt base with a brown bread and toffee flavor to it, medium bodied with a chewy mouth-feel and a slightly above average carbonation.
Finish is not as bitter as some of the dragon series with a slightly lingering, moderately pithy grapefruit and pine flavor with light notes of black tea to it.
Not bad but I didn't get much of the white grape, gooseberry complexity from the Nelson-Sauvin that I've seen in other beers using it, maybe it was over-hopped for the nuance to show up, but a little disappointing
Sep 05, 2018Fruity aroma of citrus fruit, some oranges and grapefruit maybe some mangoes.
Bittersweet citrusy flavor forward, oranges and grapefruit that along with the sweetness from the malt gives it a slight marmalade flavor along with some faint hints of melons and pine.
Pretty sweet tasting malt base with a brown bread and toffee flavor to it, medium bodied with a chewy mouth-feel and a slightly above average carbonation.
Finish is not as bitter as some of the dragon series with a slightly lingering, moderately pithy grapefruit and pine flavor with light notes of black tea to it.
Not bad but I didn't get much of the white grape, gooseberry complexity from the Nelson-Sauvin that I've seen in other beers using it, maybe it was over-hopped for the nuance to show up, but a little disappointing
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.98/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle, the latest in Alley Kat's (mostly) single-hopped DIPA series, this time with the Nelson Sauvin varietal.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper (sorry) amber colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly cushioned dirty white head, which leaves some decent stratified cloud form lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, some muddled dark berry and lychee fruitiness, a hint of musty yeast, and prominent leafy, weedy, and well-perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a bit of biscuity toffee sweetness, more edgy gooseberry and white wine grape fruity esters, subtle dirty spice notes, and some testy leafy, herbal, and boozy floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, just a bit of that acrid vinous fruit character taking things down a notch or so here. It finishes off-dry, but not by much, as the tartness of the Marlborough white wine essence tugs away at the base malt's better senses.
Overall, this is indeed a pleasant enough rendering of a workaday DIPA, within the bounds of some sexy south-seas hop goodness - though I get many parsed-out flavours of Sauvignon Blanc, the whole of said wine experience doesn't quite gel. Oh, right, we were talking about beer, I forgot. Anyways, another solid effort in this series of colour-coded hop experiments.
Mar 26, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper (sorry) amber colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly cushioned dirty white head, which leaves some decent stratified cloud form lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, some muddled dark berry and lychee fruitiness, a hint of musty yeast, and prominent leafy, weedy, and well-perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a bit of biscuity toffee sweetness, more edgy gooseberry and white wine grape fruity esters, subtle dirty spice notes, and some testy leafy, herbal, and boozy floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, just a bit of that acrid vinous fruit character taking things down a notch or so here. It finishes off-dry, but not by much, as the tartness of the Marlborough white wine essence tugs away at the base malt's better senses.
Overall, this is indeed a pleasant enough rendering of a workaday DIPA, within the bounds of some sexy south-seas hop goodness - though I get many parsed-out flavours of Sauvignon Blanc, the whole of said wine experience doesn't quite gel. Oh, right, we were talking about beer, I forgot. Anyways, another solid effort in this series of colour-coded hop experiments.
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