Dragon Series: Alabaster Dragon
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 4.44%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 01, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 27, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.96/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - the latest in Alley Kat's single-hopped (this time, with Equinox, or so sez the label) DIPA series - the name only reminds me of my pale complexion and lack of a sun tan right now.
This beer pours a clear, medium golden amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some very attractive layered curtain lace around the glass as it slowly but surely retreats.
It smells of biscuity and bready caramel malt, a soft green vegetable thing, muddled domestic citrus peel, a subtle hard water flintiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and musky floral hop bitters. The taste is bitter pine resin, gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser bready caramel sweetness, zingy lemon, lime, and underripe white grapefruit citrus notes, a hint of green pepper, and more earthy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-soothing carbonation, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, with a strong lingering, multi-vectored bitterness.
Overall - I'm sure I've had the Equinox varietal before, and don't recall the brews being so outright bitter, and perhaps the typical hop bill blending that occurs might explain that. At any rate, this is indeed one for the Hop Heads, especially those who appreciate the acrid side of things - who has two thumbs and thinks this is good stuff?
Jul 27, 2017This beer pours a clear, medium golden amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some very attractive layered curtain lace around the glass as it slowly but surely retreats.
It smells of biscuity and bready caramel malt, a soft green vegetable thing, muddled domestic citrus peel, a subtle hard water flintiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and musky floral hop bitters. The taste is bitter pine resin, gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser bready caramel sweetness, zingy lemon, lime, and underripe white grapefruit citrus notes, a hint of green pepper, and more earthy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-soothing carbonation, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, with a strong lingering, multi-vectored bitterness.
Overall - I'm sure I've had the Equinox varietal before, and don't recall the brews being so outright bitter, and perhaps the typical hop bill blending that occurs might explain that. At any rate, this is indeed one for the Hop Heads, especially those who appreciate the acrid side of things - who has two thumbs and thinks this is good stuff?
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