Dragon Series: Loral Dragon
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 12, 2021
- Added:
- May 11, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.82/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.82/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
473ml can - the latest (almost) iteration in the Dragon Series single hop DIPA process the new owners have thankfully kept alive and well. The Loral hop is apparently a blend of a noble European varietal, and some unspecified American ones. Thanks for the in-depth details in your marketing blurb, guys.
This beer pours a mostly clear, medium copper hue, with three zaftig fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and chunky dirty white head, which leaves a decent array of hanging lacy curtain legs around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, watery lemon squares, a bit of rainbow peppercorn spice, some faint estery yeast, and more leafy, piney, and musky floral green hoppiness. The taste is grainy and caramel-esque malt, Limoncello, white pepper-mill dust, a hint of earthy mustiness, and more piney, weedy, and flowering Spring petal hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly benign in its palate-disappointing weakness, the body a solid middleweight, with nothing punching this scrappy little number around the metaphorical ring. It finishes trending dry, the lemon and pepper thing coalescing into a lingering force to be reckoned with.
Overall - this is yet another interesting foray into a hop that this off and on and off and on fanboy has never ever heard a whisper of. Reminds me of another lemony hop that I won't mention here, for fear of pissing off a few local friends who lament to this day a version of this brew that used that hop to great acclaim, and then, nada. Such is the game, guys, and, as mentioned, good to see that this little side gig is still getting greenlit, even if the original bombers have gone the way of the not-so-proverbial dodo in the Alberta beer landscape.
May 12, 2021This beer pours a mostly clear, medium copper hue, with three zaftig fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and chunky dirty white head, which leaves a decent array of hanging lacy curtain legs around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, watery lemon squares, a bit of rainbow peppercorn spice, some faint estery yeast, and more leafy, piney, and musky floral green hoppiness. The taste is grainy and caramel-esque malt, Limoncello, white pepper-mill dust, a hint of earthy mustiness, and more piney, weedy, and flowering Spring petal hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly benign in its palate-disappointing weakness, the body a solid middleweight, with nothing punching this scrappy little number around the metaphorical ring. It finishes trending dry, the lemon and pepper thing coalescing into a lingering force to be reckoned with.
Overall - this is yet another interesting foray into a hop that this off and on and off and on fanboy has never ever heard a whisper of. Reminds me of another lemony hop that I won't mention here, for fear of pissing off a few local friends who lament to this day a version of this brew that used that hop to great acclaim, and then, nada. Such is the game, guys, and, as mentioned, good to see that this little side gig is still getting greenlit, even if the original bombers have gone the way of the not-so-proverbial dodo in the Alberta beer landscape.
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