Imperial Ginger Brown Ale
Yukon Brewing
- From:
- Yukon Brewing
- Yukon, Canada
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 6.7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.43 | pDev: 5.25%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 12, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 11, 2016
- Wants:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.62/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver - what's the Imperial part, the ginger or the brown ale?
This beer appears a clear, dark ruby-tinged brown colour, with one finger of puffy, somewhat foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves a decent pockmarked wall of painted lace around the glass as things gently subside.
It smells of zingy, earthy ginger, bready caramel malt, some indistinct oily nuttiness, a subtle black orchard fruitiness, and a plain leafy, weedy, and musty floral hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, wan candied ginger, toffee squares, mixed bar-top nuts, a bit of hard to discern generic citrus pith, a touch of cafe-au-lait, and more weak earthy, leafy, and floral verdant hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its easy-going frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and really quite smooth, as the wan nature of the ginger here precludes any interference, as such. It finishes off-dry, the so-called Imperial brown ale character putting the final nails in the ginger's coffin.
Overall, this is yet another well-made brew, but whose name (and marketing, I presume) doesn't really represent what's in the serving vessel. Exhibit A: way too subtle ginger. Exhibit B: considering 6.7% ABV as 'imperial'. You may call me pedantic, and I will just shrug and agree with you.
Dec 11, 2016This beer appears a clear, dark ruby-tinged brown colour, with one finger of puffy, somewhat foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves a decent pockmarked wall of painted lace around the glass as things gently subside.
It smells of zingy, earthy ginger, bready caramel malt, some indistinct oily nuttiness, a subtle black orchard fruitiness, and a plain leafy, weedy, and musty floral hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, wan candied ginger, toffee squares, mixed bar-top nuts, a bit of hard to discern generic citrus pith, a touch of cafe-au-lait, and more weak earthy, leafy, and floral verdant hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its easy-going frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and really quite smooth, as the wan nature of the ginger here precludes any interference, as such. It finishes off-dry, the so-called Imperial brown ale character putting the final nails in the ginger's coffin.
Overall, this is yet another well-made brew, but whose name (and marketing, I presume) doesn't really represent what's in the serving vessel. Exhibit A: way too subtle ginger. Exhibit B: considering 6.7% ABV as 'imperial'. You may call me pedantic, and I will just shrug and agree with you.
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