Ginja
Port Dock Brewery Hotel
- From:
- Port Dock Brewery Hotel
- Australia
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 3%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 1.76 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 03, 2009
- Added:
- Aug 03, 2006
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
1.76/5 rDev 0%
look: 2 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
1.76/5 rDev 0%
look: 2 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
Had on tap at the hotel as the last in a sample paddle.
Pours a pale apricot colour with steady bead, not much head though. Slight cloud in the brew with no lace. Looks fizzy, and pretty boring.
Ooh yeah, intense ginger on the nose, lots of spice character. Slight citric twang but mostly lots and lots of ginger. That's...about it. Delivers what it promises though, and delivers well.
Taste is insanely sweet. Oh my dear God of treacle-coated corn syrup, horrible. Candied ginger and mega sugar all over that. It tastes like ginger ale, with lots of sucrose added. But basically, sweet with traces of ginger at the back. This is completely disgusting and nothing like beer should be. A travesty.
Mouthfeel is syrupy and thick with no tingle, just very viscous. Needs more texture, I guess because there aren't a lot of ingredients here.
Admittedly this is probably brewed with a 'dessert beer' style in mind, but my problem with it is twofold - one, it's horribly oversweet. Two, and this is the unforgivable point, I like to think that I can objectively review a beer I dislike by looking at the craft behind making it. But I find none in this brew. It seems to me that to construct a beer like this, you put a relatively large amount of malt into water for a short boil, and add ginger. It's so simple, and that I can't respect.
If I were at home this would definitely be a drainpour. Here it's take a few sips and leave it on the table. Such a disappointing effort from an otherwise excellent brewery, and a terrible way to end the paddle.
Dec 03, 2009Pours a pale apricot colour with steady bead, not much head though. Slight cloud in the brew with no lace. Looks fizzy, and pretty boring.
Ooh yeah, intense ginger on the nose, lots of spice character. Slight citric twang but mostly lots and lots of ginger. That's...about it. Delivers what it promises though, and delivers well.
Taste is insanely sweet. Oh my dear God of treacle-coated corn syrup, horrible. Candied ginger and mega sugar all over that. It tastes like ginger ale, with lots of sucrose added. But basically, sweet with traces of ginger at the back. This is completely disgusting and nothing like beer should be. A travesty.
Mouthfeel is syrupy and thick with no tingle, just very viscous. Needs more texture, I guess because there aren't a lot of ingredients here.
Admittedly this is probably brewed with a 'dessert beer' style in mind, but my problem with it is twofold - one, it's horribly oversweet. Two, and this is the unforgivable point, I like to think that I can objectively review a beer I dislike by looking at the craft behind making it. But I find none in this brew. It seems to me that to construct a beer like this, you put a relatively large amount of malt into water for a short boil, and add ginger. It's so simple, and that I can't respect.
If I were at home this would definitely be a drainpour. Here it's take a few sips and leave it on the table. Such a disappointing effort from an otherwise excellent brewery, and a terrible way to end the paddle.
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