Dragon Series: Evergreen Dragon
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.96 | pDev: 3.54%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 01, 2019
- Added:
- Apr 05, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
4.03/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
This is an extremely well made, complex IPA. The spruce flavor is evident throughout the nose and taste profile. As usual, the malt intermingles with some kickass hops to create a robust west coast flavor. Another unique beer in the AK Dragon Series!
Apr 29, 2018
Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev -8.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.63/5 rDev -8.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
22 oz bomber split two ways. Pours a clear orange golden colour with one finger off white head. Prominent piney nose but with a fruity floral tone. Taste is bitter bomb of spruce with occasional burst of floral on caramel malt back bone - bitter citrus, white grapefruit. Every so often the spruce tips creep in and take over and this is not my favourite flavour (bad memories of a prior drain pour spruce beer). This one however the bitterness dominates and redeems the experience. I liked it - I think - not sure would buy again though, but I think really well made and just a flavour that my palate rejects.
Apr 21, 2018
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.03/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.03/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
650ml bottle - the latest in their (typically) single-hopped Dragon DIPA series. This one uses 'spruce infused Centennial'. Seems like they just made a spruce-flavoured brew - oops, turns out Spruce Almighty was nearly 2 years ago!
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some decent roadblock barricade lace around the glass as it slowly but surely dissipates.
It smells of resinous spruce tips, bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled grapefruit and orange rind, a bit of indistinct ground pepper spice, and more leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is spruce sap, gritty and grainy caramel malt, mixed domestic citrus peel, a small damp minerality, and more zingy leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-buoying frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a minor pine branch acerbity taking a bit of air out of the wings here. It finishes off-dry, the heady malt, mixed citrus, and forest floor detritus essences all making nice in their lingering embrace.
Overall - this is definitely one of the better iterations of this lineup from Alley Kat in recent times. The spruce really melds well with the citrusy elements of the hops, making for one enjoyable, yes, 'hop' into Spring (the foot of snow still in my backyard notwithstanding).
Apr 09, 2018This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some decent roadblock barricade lace around the glass as it slowly but surely dissipates.
It smells of resinous spruce tips, bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled grapefruit and orange rind, a bit of indistinct ground pepper spice, and more leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is spruce sap, gritty and grainy caramel malt, mixed domestic citrus peel, a small damp minerality, and more zingy leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-buoying frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a minor pine branch acerbity taking a bit of air out of the wings here. It finishes off-dry, the heady malt, mixed citrus, and forest floor detritus essences all making nice in their lingering embrace.
Overall - this is definitely one of the better iterations of this lineup from Alley Kat in recent times. The spruce really melds well with the citrusy elements of the hops, making for one enjoyable, yes, 'hop' into Spring (the foot of snow still in my backyard notwithstanding).
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