Dragon Series: Amaranth Dragon
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.01 | pDev: 1%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 31, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 23, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.05/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.05/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
650ml bottle - the latest (this time fer realsies) incarnation of said brewing concern's bi-monthly (according to their oh-so-trusty media folks) DIPA release, this time hopped with the experimental BRU-1 varietal.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden bronze colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent stringy and lacy banded lace around the glass as it lazily sinks into oblivion.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a sharp hard-water flintiness, muddled domestic citrus rind, and some plain earthy, musty, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, some orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus fruitiness, further indistinct melon notes, a damp minerality, and more even-handed leafy, weedy, and dank piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-buoying frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, as the malt gives up the proverbial ghost in the face of the lingering multi-faceted hop esters.
Overall - this is a rather engaging and enjoyable iteration of this ongoing series, with the hops taking the stage, front and center. Crisp, easy to put back, and apparently a bit player in yet another production of the apophenia that keeps nipping at my consciousness - 'Amaranth' is a rose-red colour derived from the flowers of said plant, and I am listening to the 'new' Rammstein release, a band whose 'Rosenrot' is a mainstay in my gracefully aging playlists.
Dec 31, 2019This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden bronze colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent stringy and lacy banded lace around the glass as it lazily sinks into oblivion.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a sharp hard-water flintiness, muddled domestic citrus rind, and some plain earthy, musty, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, some orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus fruitiness, further indistinct melon notes, a damp minerality, and more even-handed leafy, weedy, and dank piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-buoying frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, as the malt gives up the proverbial ghost in the face of the lingering multi-faceted hop esters.
Overall - this is a rather engaging and enjoyable iteration of this ongoing series, with the hops taking the stage, front and center. Crisp, easy to put back, and apparently a bit player in yet another production of the apophenia that keeps nipping at my consciousness - 'Amaranth' is a rose-red colour derived from the flowers of said plant, and I am listening to the 'new' Rammstein release, a band whose 'Rosenrot' is a mainstay in my gracefully aging playlists.
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