Dragon Series: Sabro Dragon
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.94 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 13, 2021
- Added:
- May 12, 2021
- Wants:
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- Gots:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.94/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
473ml can, the truly latest in this thankfully ongoing series of single-hopped DIPAs. This time it's the Sabro varietal, which is a 'cross pollination of New Mexican hops and another American hop.' Gee, don't get too specific, or anything, you marketing wanks.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some patchy swaths of chunky lace around the glass as things slowly abate.
It smells of that bready and doughy house Alley Kat malt, some indistinct melon fruitiness, overripe mandarin oranges, and some plain earthy, leafy, and piney green hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some honeydew, kiwi, and tangerine fruitiness, wet stones after a good hard rain, and more leafy, musty, and mildly astringent piney hop bitters.
The carbonation is adequate in is palate-tickling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, this particular hop possessing the good graces to know when to pump the brakes. It finishes off-dry, the frooty character looking for another place to happen.
Overall - this comes across as one of the more engaging iterations that I have cause to remember, due in no small part to the balance between the fruity essences and the bristling bitterness. Good, good stuff, and now I have yet another new-fangled hop that I'm going to forget that I like. Oh well.
May 13, 2021This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some patchy swaths of chunky lace around the glass as things slowly abate.
It smells of that bready and doughy house Alley Kat malt, some indistinct melon fruitiness, overripe mandarin oranges, and some plain earthy, leafy, and piney green hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some honeydew, kiwi, and tangerine fruitiness, wet stones after a good hard rain, and more leafy, musty, and mildly astringent piney hop bitters.
The carbonation is adequate in is palate-tickling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, this particular hop possessing the good graces to know when to pump the brakes. It finishes off-dry, the frooty character looking for another place to happen.
Overall - this comes across as one of the more engaging iterations that I have cause to remember, due in no small part to the balance between the fruity essences and the bristling bitterness. Good, good stuff, and now I have yet another new-fangled hop that I'm going to forget that I like. Oh well.
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