De Graal Gember

Brewed by De Graal
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Brakel, Belgium

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

Bottle. Pale gold with a slight white head. Aroma of ginger, yeast and apricots. Flavour of subtle ginger with some herbs and cinnamon. Good.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a medium sized head of foamy fine to medium sized white colored bubbles that were mostly diminishing and left behind a hazy with suspended floatie strongly carbonated dark yellow colored body. The mild aroma was malty mild spice and mild floral. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish with a mildly biting aftertaste. The mild flavor contained notes of malt hops and floral. An OK brew just nothing special.

Bottle. Large fluffy white head that mostly lasted. Good display of lacework. Color was pale golden like with some cloudiness. Aroma was an excellent balance of spice, ginger and sweet fruity notes with a mild underlying malty feel. Quite balanced and well brewed. Medium bodied with an average carbonation and mild dry texture with a hint of alcohol. Moderated sweet flavor with a hint of acidic and bitterness. Mild ginger sweet average duration finish.

Ginger and citrus in the nose. I can understand de lavender notes, but i do not share them. I’s quite ’flowery-spicy’ though. Hazy, orange coloured with a creamy, off-white lasting, thick head. Quite good lookin’. Again much ginger in taste. initially sweet and bitterness evolves towards the finish. Slightly metalic and watery. Not really fantastic.

Hazy pale gold with a small white head and some sediment. Sweet,fruity aroma with ginger. Couldn’t pick up the ginger in the taste, though. Just a sweet, fruity flavour with a curious hint of pepper. Alcohol is very well hidden.

Bottle. Hazy golden with a big creamy head and a lot of sediment, too. Refreshingly spicy aroma- ginger seems to work very well. Flavours are more of the same- the sweetness is nicely paired and the result is a very refreshing beer. Warming alcohol. I never thought I would rate a spiced beer so highly.

Slightly hazy golden color, with a lot of very small pieces flying around, and with a short white head. Aroma of a nice triple, but obviously with a lot of spice, ginger in this case, some citrus as well. Also quite spicy taste, sweet, mild bitter, some honey perhaps. Not bad though it might become a bit annoying after a while.

Sampled at the 2010 Crescent Moon Extreme Beer Festival. Pours pale yellow budweiser looking with a thin white head. Huge ginger aroma. Has a honey sweetness with a mild ginger flavor. There’s no burning here and it’s not overdone. This would be a perfect digestif beer.