2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Oxford Beer Fest, Gravity Fresh. This is one of the specialty beers from this 9 year established brewery who now own 7 pubs and have recently moved into larger premises. This beer has a definite ginger tang, but that vanishes quickly. The beer underneath doesn't strike as of any outstanding quality but could well be Bear Ass. The main interest here is the ginger addition which in itself is not that interesting.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear light medium yellow color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, ginger, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, ginger. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100806]
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at GBBF 2010. A pale golden colour with a good white head. The aroma is all ginger with a hint of honey. The taste is all ginger with and plenty of malt, with a dry finish.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
From cask. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is herbal, spiced and mild citrusy ginger. Dry malty, spiced and with a ginger bite. Dry malty finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (Gallows Bird, Espoo, Real Ale Festival 2010)
7 wow, massive fresh stem ginger aroma
3 orange, almost no head
7 taste obviously gingery, but plenty of hops too.
4 obviously a ginger tingle.
13 not so big, or clever, but tasty in a gimicky kind of way.
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Gallows XIII Real Ale Fest. Pours clear, flat, golden with white head. Medium bodied with syrupy feel and no carbonation, aromas have dust, vegetable, light cookie and an overpowering ginger.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at The Gallows Bird XIII Real Ale Festival, Espoo, Finland.
Clear golden colour with small white head.
Ginger in aroma.
Fruity hoppy flavour with lots of ginger and some grapefruit.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask real ale tasted at Gallows Bird RAF 2010. Nose gives ginger. Pale fast disappearing head. Bitter taste with lots of ginger. Slightly roasty. Difficult to find hops behind ginger. At the end bitterness.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On gravity at the Portcullis, Bristol 10/12/09. Deep gold with a slight white head. Aroma of root ginger with a hint of sweet malt. Flavour of intense stem ginger, with a light malty ale underneath. Ok, but one dimensional.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) at the Forum (JDW), Lincoln, April 2008. Pale gold colour. Nice condition. Quite faint ginger in the aroma but much stronger ginger notes in the flavour. Fairly subtle - more of a golden ale with ginger accents than a full on ginger bomb. Clean, fresh and fairly tasty.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
March 2008
Very ginger - ginger beer! Close to raw ginger. Semi soft mid with a dry ginger and hops finish.
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