Craggie Antebellum Ale

Brewed by Craggie Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Asheville, North Carolina USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Draft. Pours orange with a white head. Toasty malty aroma, with light flowery notes and a hint of ginger. The flavor has toasted malts, some grainy weirdness, and a hint of ginger. Pretty good.

Growler. Pours a clear copper color with a large fizzy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of mainly spruce with some rye, caramel and other herbal notes. The taste is spruce, molasses, caramel, ginger and faint hops. Medium bodied.

Sampler pours amber with a white head . Aroma is of malt and a hint of spice. Taste is mostly malt. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Date: July 07, 2010
Mode: Growler
Source: Tasting
Appearance: clear dark copper, fine off white head, streaks of lace
Aroma: big sweet ginger aroma with a sharp peppery edge
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, lots of candied ginger, light bitterness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

UPDATED: DEC 1, 2011 Draft at Casual Pint. Hazy copper with a small head. Nose is light sour fruit and caramel, with hints of spiciness. Flavor is sour cherry and apple with a touch of ginger and a finish of spruce. Medium body is tingly and acidic. Think this one was infected.

A hazed amber ale with a thin off white head. In aroma, superb ginger, prange pulp, various spices, very nice. In mouth, a smooth spiced malt with range pulp, coriander, light ginger, very nice. On tap at Knoxville Brewer’s Jam, Oct. 22 2011.

Draft at the brewery. Orange-red. The spruce is strong in the initial aroma, but once on the palate, the ginger takes over -- not really in an obtuse way, it’s well finessed like every Craggie beer we tried. This isn’t for everyone (if you don’t like ginger), but it’s very well made. (#4304, 10/5/2011)

Sample at Nashville beer fest. Spice dominated with clove and anise. A little unusual for an APA which is what they told me it was at the tent. Think it is a little more accurately categorized here as a spiced beer. Nice body with some chewy grain. Light finish, a little fruity.

Draft sampled at Music City Brewers’ Fest. Poured a hazy amber. Aroma and flavor were full of spruce and ginger. Spices worked well with the hops. Wouldn’t become my go-to beer, even if it was available where I lived. But it was creative, historical, and tasty -- and that’s pretty good in my book.

Draft @ the brewery. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity spicy aroma with hints of caramel. Fruity malty spicy ginger flavor with hints of caramel. Has a fruity malty spicy ginger finish.