Cedar Creek Brewery in Seven Points is set to release an IPA as its fourth year-round beer.
This East Texas homage to West Coast IPAs is called Dankosaurus and features bold pine, citrus, peach and tangerine hop flavors balanced by a velvety malt backbone of US 2-row and German Munich. The IPA is dry-hopped with 15 lbs per batch of a blend of experimental hop 05256, Apollo, and Bravo to impart a fruity, dank aroma.
Dankosaurus will initially be available on draft only the week of 3/24 in the Dallas market, with other markets to follow. It will be available in 16oz four-packs in early April 2014.
The beer is 6.8% alcohol by volume.
Cedar Creek Brewery is about an hour southeast of Dallas in Seven Points, Texas. The brewery began its life two years ago with used dairy equipment, ingenuity, and duct tape.
The original 10 bbl brewhouse is still being used, but the original tanks have since been upgraded to 20 bbl and 30 bbl conical fermenters, with plans for further expansion this year.
The brewery's heated and cooled taproom is open weekends, with free brewery tours at 1pm and 3pm every Saturday.