Dragonship

Pope's Yard Brewery in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Sour / Wild Beer Regular

Score

5.84

ABV: 5.0%

IBU: -

Ticks: 8

Sour Spruce Ale. Did Vikings load Dragonships with spruce beer for the long sea voyages to prevent scurvy? We may never know. While we make no health claims about this barrel-aged beer, we think it would certainly make dangerous journeys across unknown seas more bearable.

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5.5

Olut (21769) reviewed Dragonship from Pope's Yard Brewery 7 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle from Cellar Door Wines, St Albans. Clear copper-amber with no head. Has a wine-like sourness and it's a heavy sourness. Spruce provides a slightly minty floralness in taste.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2019 at 19:14

4.3

fonefan (84534) reviewed Dragonship from Pope's Yard Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle 330ml. @ [ The Stat Improver Tasting ] - Saxo, Højbjerg - Aarhus, Denmark. [ As Pope’s Yard Dragonship ].Clear light to medium amber colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, spruce, sour, sour spruce - resin - glue, wood, sour wood. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate acidic with a long duration, tart, spruce, sour spruce, wood, glue, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20170617] 5-2-4-2-8

Tried from Bottle on 01 Aug 2017 at 04:50

6.4

Grumbo (24387) reviewed Dragonship from Pope's Yard Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at Højbjerg tasting. Pours still dark amber with no head. Aroma of sour berries, yeast, and spruce. Light sweetness, very heavy sour. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Salty finish.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 10:22

Camons (21577) reviewed Dragonship from Pope's Yard Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle @ Johns. Pours slightly hazy golden, no head. Aroma of light sourness, wood, spruce, spice. Flavor is light sour, light sweet, malt, spruce, spice. Medium body, soft carbonation, light sour finish. 5-2-5-3-10. 170617

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 10:10

5.4

saxo (29721) reviewed Dragonship from Pope's Yard Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle @ Højbjerg tasting. Small head with short duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are lactose acid, herbs, malt, fruits and hops. Sour finish.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 10:09

5.8

chrisv10 (24596) reviewed Dragonship from Pope's Yard Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle, 5%. Hazy amber with no head. Aroma is malt, spruce, herbs and a little sour. Flavour is malt, lemon, spruce, herbs, sour, citric, fruit and notes of acetone.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 10:09

5.9

HenrikSoegaard (21963) reviewed Dragonship from Pope's Yard Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Frothy white good mostly deminishing head. Dark yellow colour. light malty and moderate sour aroma. Light bitter flavor. Pine notes. Average light bitter finish. oily palate.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 10:09

5.9

Rasmus40 (37007) reviewed Dragonship from Pope's Yard Brewery 8 years ago

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle @ Saxo tasting. Hazy golden without head. Aroma is sweet, malty, pine needles, wood and tart fruit. Flavor is medium sweet and light acidic. Dry and light acidic finish. Strange beer. 170617

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 10:09