Dragons & YumYums
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - Flavoured Summer|
Score
6.60
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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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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at Hogshead Tavern. Pours quite a tame pinky orange. Cranberry, orange, lemon, pear, sickly dragonfruit stuff. Medium body. Odd. At the same time not at all beer like but not quite punchy enough with the fruit.
Oakes (33770) reviewed Dragons & YumYums from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy straw colour. Limey nose, tart, pretty basic, not really getting the different elements in here.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Elizabeth Station, pours a cloudy golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma is loaded with lacto and a strange melange of fruits. Flavour is along the same lines, with pear juice, pithiness, and lacto. I like the strange fruits and vegetables in here. Pithy and fresh. Very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
$3 bottle from vintage. Almost sweet perfume aroma. Looks is slightly cloudy with a tint yellow red orange color. Each slug is almost rude ale with a tart ending. Some fruit can be had but its never sweet. Almost difficult, mildly rude, too. Some fruit, trying to identify, but can't. Waxy and slightly mouth coating, but not in a good way.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle pours out pink copper topped with a nice head. Nose is light fruit notes sawdust and some sweetness. Taste is more of the nice light sweet fruit notes wood and some soap.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
On tap at Stein in Leavenworth. Pinkish-orange pour with off-white foam. Taste is mildly sweet, mildly tart, mildly bitter. Fruity taste that I guess is dragon fruit and the other fruits mentioned in the description. Aroma is fruity. Not bad, but underwhelming for this brewery.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Crazy odd pink and ruby tinted body with an orange and copper glow with a thinnish, off-white and tan head, only a centimetre or so tall. Aroma of fruit, light sour qualities, a good deal of sweetness and ending with a grassy, almost vegetal scent with some carrots and malt definitely noticeable. Medium-bodied; Assertive tart fruity flavours at first that show some peaches and blood oranges with a little malt for body, but no real depth or backbone, only showing some mellow bitter flavours with nothing to support and some funky fruits. Aftertaste shows the grass, a lot of hay and slighlty soured or tart, at least, flavours with no extra gain aside from the dry notes. Overall, a decent enough beer, but definitely lacks when it comex to complexity or desire to sip another sip, as this one is fairly far removed from both sides of that equation. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Shopper's in Alexandria, Virginiaon 21-June-2018 for US$1,67 sampled at home in Washington on 21-July-2018 - Happy 'Anniversary' Babe
