Buxton / Arizona Wilderness Dragon Tips
A big maple, chipotle and bacon stout brewed in collaboration with those great blokes from the USA’s Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co. A subtle chilli burn follows the sweet maple and smoky bacon across the palate. Dry bacon’d.
3.7
161 reviews
Buxton, England
Community reviews
From tap. Pours hazy dark brown to black. Roasted malty. Chocolate and dry and bitter. Lingering roasted nalty, dark chocolate. Lingering dark malty, mild meaty. Roasted and dense malty finish.
Draft. A black beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, smoke, and chocolate. The aroma has notes roasted malt, chocolate, and a bit of smoke, leading to a roasted finish.
Bottle. Pours black. Aroma of roasted malts, smoke, coffee and chocolate. Taste is sweet with a touch of bitter. The chilli is noticeable, creates a nice mouth warming feel. If anything could have taken a touch more. Couldn’t really taste the bacon.
red brown pour some tan head. Aroma char, chilis, wood. flavor char blends with chili. soy bittersweet chocolate cake big spice through the mid. lingering hit of charred pork. Greatttt though bacon is not all that present.
12oz bottle from Prairie Trail Hy-Vee, in a Sam Smith pint glass. Subdued aroma of roasted malt, chocolate chips and baking chocolate with hints of crispy bacon smoke and brown sugar. Pours oily black with half a finger of bubbly light brown head that dissipates rapidly to a foamy ring. Delicate effervescence clinging to the glass. Powerful medium roast coffee flavor up front followed by dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, and wood smoke with a gentle alcoholic burn on the finish. Easy to drink. Has me craving something salty. Full bodied and creamy with good carbonation, astringent like a strong cup of coffee. Very good. An excellent stout with good balance and a little more going on in terms of flavor and aroma than the garden variety stout. Not entirely what I was hoping for from a beer that proudly announces maple bacon chipotle on the front label, but still a very good beer.
Drank with Marijn at my place before dinner, after which we headed to Malden for a special night 11-2-2016. Nice beer. Chili is noticable. Bacon is hidden. But a fine beer with good taste.
.33l bottle @ Hanniku’s Cave. (bottled 09/2014) Pours black with medium tan head. Aroma is dark malts, coffee, liquorice, chipotle, dark fruits, syrup, ash tray. Dryish. Well hidden alcohol. Flavor is mostly same with chili and bacon notes. Nice beer!
Bottled sept 25, 2014. Best before sept 25, 2016. Color is black with a dark brown head. Aroma of bacon, syrup, and slight chilli. Bacon and chili taste with a syrup aftertaste. Not a fan of bacon flavor, but solid beer.
Bottle at home, 16th January 16. Pours black, aroma is sweet, some hint of chilli, chocolate, maybe maple. Taste is sweet, very subtle chilli, but works to temper the sweetness of the maple and stout, slight bitterness. Nice, could have had more chilli
Smell is malty roasty stout with a bit of chili. Taste is the same with a hint of the maple, but I don’t get any bacon. Medium to full body with low carbonation and no foam.
sweet malty toasted aroma,black, brown foam, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, creamy, nice harmonic finish.
Smokey aromas, and a dark black colour. creamy mouthfeel, and enough of the chilli to cut through the sweetness .
Bottle shared with wihorock. Poured a dark brown color with an average frothy tan head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate to heavy roasted chocolate malt and smoked bacon aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium to heavy toasted malt smoke sweet flavor with a medium to heavy dark sweet and small alcohol bite finish of moderate to long duration. This is solid beer.
Bottle. Pours black with a thick dense tan head. Aroma of coffee, soft chocolate, smoke and had a hint of bacon. Flavor of chocolate, coffee, ash, roasted malts, faint smoke, bacon, subtle chili and a touch of maple.
Draft sample. Dark brown color, medium beige head. Aroma of burnt toast, toffee, cocoa. Taste has burnt sweetened espresso, dark bitter chocolate, very light pepper heat. Nice.
33cl bottle. black pour. Very savory beer form the bacon, not much spice, pleasant but not mindblowing, not extremely smoky but it is there firmly. Looks like brittons find black pepper to be hot chili spice.
Bottle thanks to Toby. Pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is roast malts chili coffee vanilla cocoa. Taste is more of the rich malts chili plenty roast malts cocoa.
Bottle take out grove inn huddersfield. Black good tan head. Aroma is roasty dark malts treacle. Taste coffee nice smokey chilli slight sweetness some bacon good roasty malts subtle chilli heat in the finish nice bitter finish. Decent mouthfeel prickly carbonation. Good stuff.
Dark brown coloured. Has an off-white head,lasting. Roasted aroma, Flavor starts heavy sweet, complex and still harmonic, faint smoke, vanilla, faint hot chili, spicy. No bacon ;o)
Bottle. Black colour with medium creamy light brown mostly lasting head. Aroma is roasted malt. Very spicy flavor. Creamy palate .
Bottle. Creamy lightbrown good mostly head. Black colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy arom. Heavy bitter wonderfull flavor. Roast, coffee and chocolate. Long heavy bitter finish. Creamy palate. Nice.
Smokey aroma in a jet black pour. Taste is full on smokey bacon to start with a smooth maple syrup body to balance and a dry finish to end.
Mild aroma of chocolate, taste is much more powerful chocolate with lots of maple syrup and hints of smoked bacon, very nice
Bottle from Berkeley Bowl West. Pours very dark brn with a dark tan head. Aroma of bacon and chili, and something like brown sugar. Near full bodied. Flavor is chocolate, bacon, chili, and something sweet. It’s rather earthy, and well towards dry. Sort of chili/bacon/chocolate - suggesting one of those Portland bacon bars.
A very interesting, unique beer. Pours a slightly watery black with no head. Smells of maple syrup, vanilla, s'mores, with a bit of chili, cinnamon, smokiness and doughnut. The chili peppers and bacon smokiness are brought out more in the taste. Lots of spiciness, with a finish of chocolate and bacon. Had in the bottle.
Bottle at home dark almost black colour aroma is smokey some mollasas flavour is sweet maple smokey hint of bacon and slight chilli heat smooth sweet finish
Touch of smoke, light black pepper, molasses, bell pepper, very faintly piquant, deep dark roast, medium to medium full body, medium aroma volume, some wet oxidative notes, might be hop related. Very dark in appearance, slightly resinous surface. Heat may also be a touch of alcohol. Altogether nicely cohesive and well done.
330 ml. bottled 25/9/14 that’s labeled 8.9%. It seemed like the bottle smelled like bacon before I even cracked the lid. Pours opaque jet with a thin creamy film on top. Aroma is espresso, dark chocolate, soured ham, dark toast and smoke. Front flavors of bacon, espresso and dark chocolate gives way to deep caramel and whole grain toast. Long finish is a nice mix of beef, soy, brown sugar, oats and dry cocoa. Medium-heavy body is smooth with medium carbonation and has a nice balance for such a rich beer.
Shared 11.2 oz. bottle poured to snifters, displaying a black/brown hue, with some ruby highlighting, fluffy, tan head foam, and dots & dashes of clingy lacing. The nose was roasted, a bit burnt, with cocoa, a touch of coffee on the back, and a light, meaty hint of maple cured bacon. The taste was similar, with a medium body, soft carbonation, a touch of silkiness to the mouthfeel, somewhat hidden alcohol, and a lingering, earthy & peppery bitterness that seemed a bit too intense for balance. Otherwise, pretty tasty.
11.2 ounce bottle, bottled 25/9/14, best before 25/9/16. Served in a snifter, the beer pours dark brown/black with about an inch tan head. Head retention and lacing are both good. The brew smells like roasted malt, coffee, chocolate and some chili peppers. The taste is mostly just like the aroma, but there’s the addition of some maple and smoked malt/meats. However, those flavors aren’t strong at all. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a tasty brew. But the maple and bacon/smoked meat flavors are subtle, and the chili pepper flavor is just a little stronger in comparison. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it’s creamy and coating with a good amount of carbonation. Overall I thought it was a good stout, and it’s definitely worth trying. Just don’t expect a lot of maple, chili and bacon flavor out of it. If you look at this brew as being a good imperial stout (and don’t pay attention to the maple, chili and bacon on the label), then you’ll like it as much as I did. $7.99 a bottle.