Goose Island Gingerbread Dream Porter

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company (Brewpubs)
Style: Baltic Porter
Chicago, Illinois USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Flight on tap at the Clybourn brewpub (Chicago, IL). Pours a dark blackish opaque pour, ominous, as it warms it gets some ruby glow to those edges, a bit thicker, with a decent frothy light brown head that stays as a decent layer, laces well. Aromas are a healthy dose of gingerbread cookies. Some spicy cinnamon, ginger root, and brown sugar mix with touches of cocoa, toffee, and toast. Mellow vanilla, good spice, and just an inviting Christmas-y aroma. Initial is medium bodied, offering toast and spicy gingerbread up front, caramel and vanilla, a pronounced yet pleasant brown sugar element. Ginger, sweet succulence. Perhaps a bit thin, as the backend lingers the spice, vanilla, a bit of pleasant milk chocolate comes into the fold in the middle and finish. More gingerbread, really nice flavor without being overwhelming. I rather enjoyed this. Made with a purpose which it definitely fills. Dries up more into the finish, with lingering spice, almost a touch of minty quality.

Draft at cly, pours reddish brown with off white head. Aroma is mostly gingerbread cookies, good dose of nutmeg and cinnamon, some milk chocolate on the backend. Flavors are rather sweet gingerbread cookies, lots of nutmeg, cinnamon sticks, and vanilla. They nailed a gingerbread cookie beer, for me it’s good in small doses, just not really my thing and a little too sweet but otherwise most should enjoy it.

UPDATED: DEC 21, 2011 On tap at gi clybourn as part of the Holiday Toy Drive Beers series of sorts... Pours similar to dark chocolate coconut, more of a deep caramel toffee than black with lighter intense colored edges. A creamy light beige head rests on top and slowly reduces after warming... Gingerbread, nutmeg, and cinammon aromas assertively released by the glass and pair alongside a sweeter sugared down cocoa vanilla note. Cookie crumbs and spice add a touch of dessert quality to it... Flavors follow suit almost to a tee with a toned down gingerbread cookie quality. The base beer is more subdued allowing the spice (ginger/nutmeg) to take control and maintain precedence. Body is similar to the others with a creamy consistency, albeit a touch light, with soft carbonation. Nailed the profile and I like me some gingerbread.