Dragons & YumYums
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - Flavoured Summer|
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6.60
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An explosion of fruit in every sip, Dragons & YumYums is an intensely tropical - yet subtlety bitter - pale ale brewed with a combination of dragon fruit, yumberry, passionfruit, pear juice and black carrot juice. Clocking in at 6.5% ABV and 25 IBU, Dragons & YumYums is a first-of-its-kind collaboration with American rock icons, The Flaming Lips.
A sensory enveloping experience at the intersection of creative beer paired with creative music, the energy of this union inspired Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne to use ingredients from the beer - dragon fruit and yumberries - as characters in two original songs, The Story of Yum Yum and Dragon and Pouring Beer in Your Ear … making this the first beer with its own theme song!
With dragon fruit and yumberry as the main elements, Wayne transformed them into storyful lyrics in the song like, “Yum Yum and Dragon went out for a drive, but Yum Yum doesn’t have any eyes….Yum Yum and Dragon, they’re happy they’re friends…”
The psychedelic influence of the label artwork, designed by Michael Hacker as part of Dogfish Head’s Off-Centered Art Series, was influenced by the legacy of the Flaming Lips and the culinary components in Dragons & YumYums shown through radiating lines, movement of fire, dancing lips, rainbows and bold pink colors.
A sensory enveloping experience at the intersection of creative beer paired with creative music, the energy of this union inspired Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne to use ingredients from the beer - dragon fruit and yumberries - as characters in two original songs, The Story of Yum Yum and Dragon and Pouring Beer in Your Ear … making this the first beer with its own theme song!
With dragon fruit and yumberry as the main elements, Wayne transformed them into storyful lyrics in the song like, “Yum Yum and Dragon went out for a drive, but Yum Yum doesn’t have any eyes….Yum Yum and Dragon, they’re happy they’re friends…”
The psychedelic influence of the label artwork, designed by Michael Hacker as part of Dogfish Head’s Off-Centered Art Series, was influenced by the legacy of the Flaming Lips and the culinary components in Dragons & YumYums shown through radiating lines, movement of fire, dancing lips, rainbows and bold pink colors.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. So I'm not sure what yumberries or dragonfruit are but the beer is tasty and smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 06:01
9/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:47
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle to glass....I proclaim to be one of the dogfish superfans, but this one has me scratching my head. It has a bit of a vegetative smell, on a deeeeeep sniff almost stink bug(probably the carrot). It doesn't taste bad though. Some watery pear mostly and the dragonfruit is faint on the finish. Eh...love the label though
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2023
at 23:42
6/10
Tried
on 20 Feb 2022
at 18:18
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Backlog. Clear amber pour. Tropical fruit aroma. Flavor is mildly bitter with lightly sweet malt. Tropical fruit and a little pine. Balanced and enjoyable though I was hoping for more...
Tried
on 23 Mar 2021
at 13:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear reddish-bronze color with a medium thick white head that dissipates gradually to an outer ring. Partial rings of lace. Fruity aroma with wheat and hop notes. Light to medium body with flavors of tropical fruit, mild hops and bready malt. The finish is fruity with a passionfruit aftertaste. Decent overall.
Tried
on 09 Dec 2019
at 16:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pink orange pour. Creamy foam head. Fruity and sweet floral nose. Taste of guava, mango, and pink grapefruit, intial sweet taste that turns bitter. Palate is bitter citrus a with sweet undertones.
Tried
on 15 Nov 2019
at 23:23
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz bottle from Brewers Haven. Amber body with a light violet hue, fluffy head. Aroma is berries, fruity, floral. Taste is sweet, fruity, light handsoap. Finishes fast and disappears .
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2019
at 21:41
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Greg & Jane's Beer and Wine. Appearance is clear, reddish-copper with nice sparkle, finger width fizzy off-white head with pink tinge, poor retention and fair soapy lacing. Aroma is mix of sweet and tart passionfruit, hint of pear, musty laundry. Taste is sweet and tart fruit, bready backbone. Palate is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, lively carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, gorgeous look and fruits deliver a mix of sweet and tart as you'd expect. Not terribly complex. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2019
at 02:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap a rosey slightly orange pour witha thin light pink head. Soft slightly tart fruit medley aroma and flavor. Clean bright finish. Trailer that is I suppose the carrots. Strange.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2019
at 02:26