Irish Wristwatch Ginger
Olds College Teaching Brewery
- From:
- Olds College Teaching Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.51 | pDev: 0.28%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 20, 2015
- Added:
- Apr 10, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BigBry from Canada (AB)
3.5/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Split a half growler with the family, fresh from the brewery.
Clear, gold color, with a bubbly / fizzy white head. Minimal lace as foam recedes.
It smells of ginger, but more like a Ginger Ale soda than fresh ginger root. Some earthy hops follow.
The taste has a good bready caramel base, and then the ginger hits you. Not too strong, but very distinct. Thin hop finish, not really bitter balance, just kind of there.
The body is light, mouth feel a bit fizzy. It finishes dry with the ginger present at the end.
Good on a hot day, but seems to be lacking
May 20, 2015Clear, gold color, with a bubbly / fizzy white head. Minimal lace as foam recedes.
It smells of ginger, but more like a Ginger Ale soda than fresh ginger root. Some earthy hops follow.
The taste has a good bready caramel base, and then the ginger hits you. Not too strong, but very distinct. Thin hop finish, not really bitter balance, just kind of there.
The body is light, mouth feel a bit fizzy. It finishes dry with the ginger present at the end.
Good on a hot day, but seems to be lacking
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.53/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver. Not sure what an Irish Wristwatch is, but I shall surely look it up at a later date.
This beer appears a clear, medium golden amber colour, with one anemic finger of puffy, tightly foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some streaky archipelago lace around the glass as things duly recede.
It smells of restrained fresh ginger, a touch of generic soap, grainy, bready pale malt, and leafy, weedy, and musty hops. The taste is more watery real ginger, bready, doughy, and gritty caramel malt, a hint of benign citrus fruit, and the same bland noble hops from the nose.
The bubbles are fairly understated in their frizzy and frothy alternations, the body medium-light in weight, and so-so smooth, a faint airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the tame ginger coalescing with the lingering grainy malt, for the most part.
For a ginger brew, this falls dead center in the growing pantheon of actual offerings available around here - sassy, to a certain degree, but that's about it, as the expected roundness just doesn't manifest.
Apr 10, 2015This beer appears a clear, medium golden amber colour, with one anemic finger of puffy, tightly foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some streaky archipelago lace around the glass as things duly recede.
It smells of restrained fresh ginger, a touch of generic soap, grainy, bready pale malt, and leafy, weedy, and musty hops. The taste is more watery real ginger, bready, doughy, and gritty caramel malt, a hint of benign citrus fruit, and the same bland noble hops from the nose.
The bubbles are fairly understated in their frizzy and frothy alternations, the body medium-light in weight, and so-so smooth, a faint airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the tame ginger coalescing with the lingering grainy malt, for the most part.
For a ginger brew, this falls dead center in the growing pantheon of actual offerings available around here - sassy, to a certain degree, but that's about it, as the expected roundness just doesn't manifest.
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