Saturday, 22 June 2013

Dragonfly

Brewery: Fallen Brewing Company
Supplier: Luvians Bottle Shop - St Andrews

This is a relatively new brewery starting in the beginning of 2012 in Stirlingshire. They focus on creating beers  from the best quality ingredients including Scottish mountain water. I would describe them as a new world brewery as they are not adverse to using hops from all over the globe, and lots of them.
Appearance: Candied orange colour with a thin and fading white head and lots of large bubbles.
Aroma: Some sweet resiny hops and some dried orange peel, hints of caramel malts in the background.
Flavour: Bitter upfront with not much of the hop flavours coming through, this bitterness leads into a burnt malt back. Some chemical flavours coming through. The bitterness starts to overtake it a bit too much with drinking.
Body: Very watery and sticky bubble, a bit like water with washing up liquid in. Very wet on the front with a dry back back that escalates with drinking.
Aftertaste: Constant bitterness with little flavour, the chemical flavours come through more at the back.

Overall: Therefore this gets a rating of 3.

Price Range: £2.00 for a 330ml bottle. Cheap, but tastes cheap so I wouldn't buy it again.

Food Pairings: Something sweet to offset the bitterness. The best would be lemon/orange moist sponge cake.


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