Dragon's Back IPA (before 2013)
Hong Kong Beer Co. in Chai Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong 🇭🇰
Brown Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
4.93
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3
330ml bottle [as "Dragon’s Back IPA]. Rather dubious country tick - so what. Clear, ruby red glowing, dark brown colour with small, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, tan head. Sweet aroma with hints of molasses, liquorice, artifical cherry or raspberry ’Laffy Taffy’ (or ’Maoam’). Taste is artificially sweet, artificial cherry and/or raspberry flavours again. Strange.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
The story around his ale is actually better than the beer itself. Anyway it was a really nice brown ale. Not an IPA as the label says. Once upon a time Monika was in Germany with her dogs again, and off course she had to do some beer shopping for me. By a coincidence I did see that some other lads had bought a beer from Hong Kong at a grocery store close to where she camped. So……
Well she found them and I was happy. A whole crate actually. Yeah I could trade a lot with these. My good pal Terje should off course get one. And when we sat down in his space rocket we discovered that it was an IPA, not the expected pale shait. Ahhhh damned we could not drink it that day and I wanted to taste it as well. Okey so he kept it in his closet at work. Well we thought we could share it quite soon…….due to a wild bicycle race, Ullevål Hospital and other small events….it stayed in that WARM closet for almost 1,5 year. Should we ever manage to kill this one? Off course we are proper gentleman and do not waste beer. Well it was a thick, so….well at last the moment arrived. On a bus, in a plastic cup, on our way to a beer festival, surrounded by a whole lot of football hooligans. Mama mia. Well the bald football fans are actually my friends and probably the kindest football and beer lovers in the known universe. The Hong Kong IPA turned out to be a fine brown ale, and the storing in Terjes closet at work had not killed it at all. BB was passed 8 months ago. But we survived. Maybe the plastic cups from Østfold Hospital had some antibiotics that helped us. Who knows, but I will always remember this one. Cheers!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
330ml Flasche. Braune Farbe, geringe Schaumkrone. Geruch malzig, leicht röstig, Citrus. Geschmack bittersüß, wässrig im Abgang, daher süffig.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1
Bottle. Pours clear copper brown with negligible off-white head. Clear aroma of hop, metallic note in the long nose. The flavour is bitter, but more due to the dominant metallic note rather tham the hop used in production. Earthy finish. Wathery mouthfeel. Nowhere near any kind of IPA, whatever the label might say. Poor.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Bottle from Haus der 131 Biere, Hamburg. Clear reddish brown with a fairly lasting beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and corn. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. Watery. 141212
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle 330ml @ Geokkjer
Pours reddish dark brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel and hint of chocolate. Taste is light to medium sweet and light bitter. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle at GBF 2012-09-07 Göteborg Thx to Fredrik that was digging this out from out of the blue... AR: roasted malt, red berries AP: deep brown, head? F: wee roasted malt, berries from the wood (minus the blueberries)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle (labelled Dragon’s Back IPA - so either this is mis-labelled or an alias because it’s definitely not an IPA). Light chocolate malt and grass hops aroma. Dark brown color with moderate head. Lightly sweet toffee malt and mildly bitter hops flavor. Light but pretty tasty - very nice for an Asian beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle 330ml. @ home.Clear medium to dark brown amber color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, brown sugar, light to moderate hoppy, plastic. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, sour notes. Body is light medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20100420]
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. (Old notes from a visit in Hong Kong 2006) Dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, nuts and some hops. Quite fruity taste with caramel, bread and brown sugar. Ok beer.