3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Gorgeous aroma of fresh ginger, zingy hops and wind swept grainy malt, the palate offers up more invitation to come and explore a ginger cake fuelled playground with a caressing mouthfeel aiding a slightly hedonistic experience. It finishes dry and moreish. Good body. I have sampled this beer at various stages and for varying exposure to the ginger and with ginger added at slightly different times. It does make a difference, obviously, and the most glorious examples I have tried have been recently, at the Tucker’s Maltings Festival ’08 and at a local pub. The Gold Standard itself is a lovely beer and with a good length of time on ginger it really turns into a different beer, not just a mute take on the Standard. A few weeks maturation also really enhances mouthfeel that keeps it from being to heavy and podgy on the palate.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: JAN 8, 2008 Cask (Gallows Bird, Espoo, OKT Pikkujoulu)
Golden, thin persistent head. Despite looking light, it’s got a rich and dark malty aroma - coffee in places, and also ginger cake. Taste is a lovely wave of ginger with a full-bodied malt - fairly grainy. I was right in my previous review!
Rerate of (5-3-7-3-12=3.0)
Cask (Peterborough BF 2007)
Plain malty bitter plus ginger. Ginger’s great, but doesn’t fit in with the rest of the beer, which is quite plain. Defintely has potential.
Black Door - Helsinki, Jan 08 - (6+3+6+3+12=2.8) A bit odd.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask conditioned @ Guide Dog, Soton. An unexciting blond beer with a little citrus and a mild ginger flavour which seems to make the beer seem a bit fat and soft. I didn’t really enjoy this.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pint at the Old Cross Beer Festival Hertford. Excellent appearance, but lacking condition. Hints of ginger and some hops, but neither one or the other. Selling well to the ladies.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: SEP 24, 2007 A Mes rate:
Gravicask @ Reading Beer Festival. Excellent stuff. Seem to remember having this towards the end of the first day and not thinking too much to it. Early on day two it was much better. Lovely golden colour with floaty fizzy bubbles. Amazing fresh hop and Jamaican ginger cake nose. More of the same in the flavour. Reminds me of Sly Fox but easily superior. The ginger cake note is awesome and I don’t like ginger beers. Mouthfeel is excellent. Great stuff.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask Handpump at the Smithfield Hotel, Manchester 17/01/2007
Ginger aroma. Thick white head. Clear golden coloured and smooth on the palate. Hoppy with some ginger flavour. A little dryness and bitterness in a malt finish.
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