Ginger Hefe
Okanagan Spring Brewery
- From:
- Okanagan Spring Brewery
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.44 | pDev: 3.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 12, 2015
- Added:
- Jun 14, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.24/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.24/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
341ml bottle poured into tulip 9/7/15
A hazy pale orange, lots of tiny suspended particles and a few little chunks moving around, not much for head or lace, not all that hefeish
S heaps of ginger, very earthy... like top soil kinda earthy, not a whole lot of hefe qualities with some very faint banana, the ginger has completely taken over this one
T spice and ginger, very basic and lacking complexity, a ginger beer with faint hefe yeast
M lighter bodied, bubbles foam up and flatten out quickly, slimy on the palate, spicy ginger finish
O not offensive but nothing to write home about, a ginger hefe? I'm guessing this fad will pass quickly
I could see this one going over well with the masses but I doubt many beer geeks will be sold at any point
Jul 10, 2015A hazy pale orange, lots of tiny suspended particles and a few little chunks moving around, not much for head or lace, not all that hefeish
S heaps of ginger, very earthy... like top soil kinda earthy, not a whole lot of hefe qualities with some very faint banana, the ginger has completely taken over this one
T spice and ginger, very basic and lacking complexity, a ginger beer with faint hefe yeast
M lighter bodied, bubbles foam up and flatten out quickly, slimy on the palate, spicy ginger finish
O not offensive but nothing to write home about, a ginger hefe? I'm guessing this fad will pass quickly
I could see this one going over well with the masses but I doubt many beer geeks will be sold at any point
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.59/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
341ml bottle, part of a hefeweizen mixed-pack recently made available from OSB.
This beer pours a hazy, medium copper amber hue, with three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and fairly creamy dirty white head, which leaves some pleasant melting snowmass lace around the glass as it gently recedes.
It smells of sharp, spicy ginger root, semi-sweet grainy pale malt, a hard to discern gritty wheatiness, black pepper dust, and very tame floral, leafy hop bitters. The taste is earthy, green, and slightly vegetal pickled ginger, muddled pale and wheat malt, wet pepper mill output, and plain leafy, weedy hops, inferred through the bitterness, and not any noticeable flavour.
The carbonation is adequately zesty and frothy to meet my palatal needs, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, as the ginger goes musty at right about this juncture, making a minor local dent. It finishes on the sweet side, the ginger, as noted, having turned a bit, from spicy to weirdly phenolic.
A good try at making a ginger beer, as the underlying hefeweizen's potential nuances are obliterated by the guest spice's varying personality traits, though this is still one of the overall tangier versions of a ginger beer that I've yet encountered, especially coming from a corporate-adjacent brewer.
Jun 14, 2015This beer pours a hazy, medium copper amber hue, with three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and fairly creamy dirty white head, which leaves some pleasant melting snowmass lace around the glass as it gently recedes.
It smells of sharp, spicy ginger root, semi-sweet grainy pale malt, a hard to discern gritty wheatiness, black pepper dust, and very tame floral, leafy hop bitters. The taste is earthy, green, and slightly vegetal pickled ginger, muddled pale and wheat malt, wet pepper mill output, and plain leafy, weedy hops, inferred through the bitterness, and not any noticeable flavour.
The carbonation is adequately zesty and frothy to meet my palatal needs, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, as the ginger goes musty at right about this juncture, making a minor local dent. It finishes on the sweet side, the ginger, as noted, having turned a bit, from spicy to weirdly phenolic.
A good try at making a ginger beer, as the underlying hefeweizen's potential nuances are obliterated by the guest spice's varying personality traits, though this is still one of the overall tangier versions of a ginger beer that I've yet encountered, especially coming from a corporate-adjacent brewer.
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