Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Dragons & YumYums

Dragons & YumYums

 

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸

  Pale Ale - Flavoured Summer
Score
6.60
ABV: 6.5% IBU: 25 Ticks: 43
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.
 

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6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Pour is a orange with a slight red tint and a small white head. Aroma is Some slight berry fruit and not much else. Flavor is again some fruity berry with no hops or malts present. I don't know what they were going for with this, It's pretty bland and uninspiring.
Tried on 10 May 2018 at 01:59

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into signature tulip glass, bottled on 3/27/2018. Pours slightly hazy pinkish orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense and rockyh light pink head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of lightly tart/tangy kiwi, strawberry, cherry, lemon, orange, passion fruit, melon, pear, red apple, carrot, wheat, cracker, and toasted bread; with light notes of caramel, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of fruits, bready malt, and light citrus/earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of lightly tart/tangy kiwi, strawberry, cherry, lemon, orange, passion fruit, melon, pear, red apple, carrot, wheat, cracker, and toasted bread; with light notes of caramel, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light herbal/grassy/spicy bitterness and fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of kiwi, strawberry, cherry, lemon, orange, passion fruit, melon, pear, red apple, carrot, wheat, cracker, toasted bread, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruits, bready malt, and light citrus/earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitter/tartness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitter/tartness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/sticky, fairly crisp, and lightly acidic/tangy balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol for 6.5%. Overall this is a nice fruited American pale ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruits, bready malt, and light citrus/earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, and pretty refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/tart/drying finish. Balanced fruits and bready malts; with solid citrus/earthy hop bitter balance. A nicely enjoyable offering. Very unique and well made as expected.
Tried from Bottle on 10 May 2018 at 00:51

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Pours a pinkish copper color with a pale pink head. Moderate citrus hops aroma. Flavor starts sweet and then the moderate hop bitterness kicks in, finishes crisp.
Tried on 09 May 2018 at 21:19

8/10
Tart but also complex, multifaceted, smooth.
Tried from Bottle on 08 May 2018 at 21:39

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
On tap at Bricks and Barrels. Clear copper with medium white head. Aroma is pear, medium body, medium carbonation, and good small-bubble lacing. Taste is passion fruit with some hop backbone.
Tried from Draft on 08 May 2018 at 21:12

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 8 Overall 4.5
Never thought the word "tame" would be the key in profiling this beer, but, hey, it fits. Tame fruit flavors meet a tame pale ale with tame hops and tame carbonation. (Yes, you could replace the "t" with an "l" in most of those adjectives and it would still be a fitting description.) Tart passion fruit adds a little bit of a kick, but there's really nothing here: the pale ale gives a mild cereal sweetness, the fruit is muddled, and the bitterness seems like a cheap attempt at bolstering the brew's street cred. Gimmick is as gimmick does. Eh.
Tried on 27 Apr 2018 at 23:45

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle, Wine Warehouse. Pours pinkish orange with an off-white head. Aroma is wet dog, some citrus, unripened green fruit. Flavor is weird. Red, unripened fruit: almost like Kool-ade without sugar, light citrus, light pepper, some plain-ass malt, green grass. Boring.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Apr 2018 at 00:12

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Sampled from the tap at Beer Culture. Pours a clear deep gold with a near white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has lots of grass and earthy citrus with light fruits underlying. Flavor has more light fruits with grass, earthy citrus and a bit of hay underlying.
Tried from Draft on 22 Apr 2018 at 18:41

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5
There's a whole bunch of stuff going on here that I'm not sure I understand. It isn't bad, but probably overdone. Clear pink pour with ok head. Some weird fruit and some tang. More of a fruit beer than a pale ale. Tap at Glens.
Tried from Draft on 19 Apr 2018 at 22:18

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
So I do not like The Flaming Lips upon whom this beer was based; appropriately, I did not like this beer very much either. It is a red ordeal with a white head. Smells fruity... not extremely so, however. Hop aromas are there as well. Low bitterness. Fruity sweetness. Kind of whatever.
Tried on 15 Apr 2018 at 15:19