Dragon Series: Viridian Dragon
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 2.58%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 16, 2018
- Added:
- Dec 06, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.78/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, the latest in their single-hop Dragon Series of DIPAs, this time with the Waimea varietal.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some splendid layered frilly lace around the glass as it lazily dissipates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, orange, red grapefruit, and lime citrus peel, some stoney flintiness, and more leafy, musty, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, a damp minerality, and more edgy leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a touch of citric acridity maybe not playing so nice with the neighborhood kids here. It finishes trending dry, the hops pushing the malt to the lingering back-burner.
Overall - this comes across as a pleasant enough version of the style, with the 15-proof boozed quotient typically well-hidden, and the touring hop enjoying its day in the sun. Full of flavour, easy to pound back, and worth checking out, while I go and look up how 'viridian' differs from plain ol' blue.
Dec 12, 2018This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some splendid layered frilly lace around the glass as it lazily dissipates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, orange, red grapefruit, and lime citrus peel, some stoney flintiness, and more leafy, musty, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, a damp minerality, and more edgy leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a touch of citric acridity maybe not playing so nice with the neighborhood kids here. It finishes trending dry, the hops pushing the malt to the lingering back-burner.
Overall - this comes across as a pleasant enough version of the style, with the 15-proof boozed quotient typically well-hidden, and the touring hop enjoying its day in the sun. Full of flavour, easy to pound back, and worth checking out, while I go and look up how 'viridian' differs from plain ol' blue.
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