Brewed By; Bison Brewing
Out of; Ukiah, CA (USA)
6.0 ABV
C(clarity). Clear, although dark hue
H(hue). Very dark brown
N(nose). Like gingerbread cookies, Christmassy, Hints of cinnamon
Dirty Dos: Hmmm, alright. So the smell of this beer, yummy. When the beer first hits your tongue, fantastic. But the aftertaste, yuck. When I think of gingerbread ale, I think sweeeeet! But no. If you are going to drink this beer, you might want to get some Gushers or some Fruit Rollups to satisfy the nothing you just drank. Score = 2.8
Fermentation: This beer reminded me of that girl in high school that looked good, smelled good, but when you finally went out on a date with her, just couldn’t finish the job. This beer did exactly that. The smell of the beer was amazing and complex. The initial taste of the beer was like a gingerbread man was dancing on your tongue, but the finish just disappeared into thin air. Score = 3.45
Overall = 3.13
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I too had this recently and while I enjoyed it as a beer I was disappointed by the lack of actual gingerbread taste that I could pick up.
ReplyDeleteGood point Mike. At the first smell, I was pretty excited. I thought I might have finally found that Christmassy beer that would actually live up to it's name. But the finish was so bland. I guess the search continues.
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What do you guys base your scoring on? Obviously 10 being the best and 1 being the worst but how do you come up with 3.45 or 2.8
ReplyDeleteThis is from our Introduction post:
ReplyDeleteRankings....well most people put #'s on a beer (this beer is 92/100) and some others give the beer a grade school type grade.....both of these are just LAME. Fact of the matter neither of us were really good in school and math definitely wasn't a strong point. That said we are going to rank all beers on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 being the worst and 5 being the best. Why this scale to rate beers....we dunno, we just thought it would be fun!
So basically we don't take a whole bunch of numbers and add them together, we just give it a number (1-5) that we feel is appropriate.
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As far as winter beers go I am a fan of Sierra Nevada's Celebration. I had The Bruery's Two Turtle Doves in PA and it was great. Jolly Pumpkin's Noel de Calabaza is really good too.
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