Gingerbread Brown
Triton Brewing Company
- From:
- Triton Brewing Company
- Indiana, United States
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- 81
- Avg:
- 3.53 | pDev: 14.45%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 12
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 12, 2016
- Added:
- Dec 10, 2011
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 11
SCORE
81
Good
81
Good
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Reviewed by pezhead_79 from Indiana
3.83/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Always a solid winter time offering at the brewery. They have started to bottle this but it just doesn't work well. Maybe I've just gotten some poorly stored bottles from local stores but I prefer this direct from the source.
May 12, 2016
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
3.54/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
With a host of spices at their expense, Triton brewers say that you don't have to hit the cooler weather along. Equipped with a sturdy brown ale with the spice medley to emulate gingerbread, those gloom winter days couldn't be brighter.
Their Gingerbread Brown pours the expected bonzen-brown with tawny golds at its margins. A rapidly building head collapses quickly but before that offers a rich bakery scent of molasses, ginger, cinnamon, clove and nutmeg for that unmistakable medley that is gingersnaps. The sweetness grips the early palate with toffee, caramel and toasted spice cake for extra measure.
On the middle, the bulk of sweetness is lost to toast, coffee, cocoa and spice as the supporting malts dissolve to relegate its scant character to that of cola. Still, its spicy trail leads to a strong ginger presence with its peppery bite and its floral taste. Toasted breads of coffee cake, spice cake and a nutty pecan flavor rounds out the finish while a coffee-like bitterness begins to show.
Medium-bodied but strongly astringent, the spices lay a peppery tannic bite and a light papery texture with wood spices and a tinge of grape skin. A spicy aftertaste reaffirms the flavor of gingerbread with an aftertaste of cola nut.
Mar 04, 2016Their Gingerbread Brown pours the expected bonzen-brown with tawny golds at its margins. A rapidly building head collapses quickly but before that offers a rich bakery scent of molasses, ginger, cinnamon, clove and nutmeg for that unmistakable medley that is gingersnaps. The sweetness grips the early palate with toffee, caramel and toasted spice cake for extra measure.
On the middle, the bulk of sweetness is lost to toast, coffee, cocoa and spice as the supporting malts dissolve to relegate its scant character to that of cola. Still, its spicy trail leads to a strong ginger presence with its peppery bite and its floral taste. Toasted breads of coffee cake, spice cake and a nutty pecan flavor rounds out the finish while a coffee-like bitterness begins to show.
Medium-bodied but strongly astringent, the spices lay a peppery tannic bite and a light papery texture with wood spices and a tinge of grape skin. A spicy aftertaste reaffirms the flavor of gingerbread with an aftertaste of cola nut.
Reviewed by secondtooth from Indiana
3.49/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pour a ruddy ruby, rather than a straight brown. I get a nicely-sized tan head. Lace is unremarkable, though.
Nose is spice -- notably cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice, and ginger. Very definitively a holiday-styled ale.
Taste is more of the heavy spice character, with spicy ginger seeming most prominent. Allspice and cinnamon follow. Body is light, but taste is heavy. A solid winter warmer.
Apr 07, 2014Nose is spice -- notably cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice, and ginger. Very definitively a holiday-styled ale.
Taste is more of the heavy spice character, with spicy ginger seeming most prominent. Allspice and cinnamon follow. Body is light, but taste is heavy. A solid winter warmer.
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