Stones Premium Alcoholic Ginger Beer

Brewed by Angove’s
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Renmark, South Australia, Australia

Bottle: I thought this was pretty nice, so I was surprised to see the other ratings for it. Oh well... Very, veryh pale yellow green. Nice fresh giner aroma with some sugar, citrus, and touches of floral notes. In the mouth a slightly dead malt note mid-palate took away from what would otherwise have been a refreshing, quenching ginger freshness. Some pleasant lingering citrus notes. Not too keen on the preservatives - couple of points off for that...

I guess I’ll just take thir word for it that this was alcoholic ginger beer. Bit sickly sweet, with a thoroughly processed soft drink feel. Probably seemed worse after tasting filthmuppet’s much more substantial home-brewed ginger effort several days previous.

Bottle 330ml. White and cloudy colour. Ginger taste in the throat. Not so bad. Quite a sweet drink. Very disappointed...

Bottle. Cloudy white yellow with no head. Initially a reasonable ginger aroma. Lively carbonation and medium body. The flavour has some nice ginger bite but is very sweet. It’s initially refreshing, but way too sweet and this builds up to make it quite disappointing.

Bottle 33cl. White hazy body with small head. Looks like a bitter lemon soda. Nose totally dominated by sweet ginger. Very sweet ginger and fizzy feeling. Sweet ginger in the aftetaste. This is compareable to a breezer.

Tis all gingery. I do like a bit of ginger beer so having alcohol in it makes it even better. IT’s a bit hard to compare it to other beers cause it tastes like, well, ginger. So in terms of all the standard beer ratings it’s a bit off the wall. So here goes: Aroma is great, all very gingery which overpowers anything else aside from the slightly metalic overtones (which could just be older ginger). Appearance is pretty shocking. It looks like traditional lemonade, so all very un-beer like aside from the cloudiness. Flavour is very much of ginger strangly enough. Ginger with a bit more ginger. A tad too sweet for me, so we need a dry ginger beer please stones. There is a slight lingering aftertaste which reminds of, hmmm, ginger I think. But after that theres a hint of something I can’t identify, but it lets you know you’ve had a drink with alcohol in it. It’s a kind of light soft handover breath that targets teh side of the tongue. Gawd. Overall though I like it and you could very eaily drink it without even noticing the alcohol which will make a favourite with the underage drinkers of Australia.

Bottle. I couldn’t find a date on this thing but I would bet that the one I had had been sitting in that megafridge for a looooong time. Poured so cloudy with particulate matter that I was afraid I might get a yeast infection in my mouth from drinking it. Flavor was very ginger beer-typical meaning there was no surprise difference from any other alcoholic or non-alcoholic ginger beer. I don’t really know what else to say that would make you want to try this. It didn’t suck, but it should be last on your list if you are out to try new beers.