Happy Holidays 2013 - Cranberry Ginger Ale
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 2.83%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 17, 2014
- Added:
- Nov 17, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.81/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml green wax sealed bottle (which cryptically states 'Maybe' under the cap), this year's thank you from the brewery to all its friends and fans. This is indeed the same beer as the Cringer Cranberry Ginger Ale, as per the Kats themselves, but that doesn't seem to matter here. So here we go, turkey's in the oven, and I've a few minutes before family board game time kicks off.
This beer pours a mildly hazy golden yellow hue, with one finger of foamy, rocky, off-white head, which leaves a random sprouting of waterspout lace around the glass as it duly settles.
It smells of gingerbread - a notoriously bready malt and ginger will have that effect - with some otherwise biscuity graininess, and a prominent, indiscriminate, tart fruitiness. The taste is more bready malt, earthy, moderately sweet and zingy ginger root, and still muddled tart fruit, which, given how many Thanksgiving dinners I've passed over the eponymous fruit's serving incarnation, I just can't really say if this is the real deal, or not.
The carbonation is on the soft side, the body medium-light in weight, and rather unperturbed in its smoothitude. It finishes sweet - malty, mostly, the waning ginger and assumed fruitiness not contributing a whole lot further to the cause.
I gotta say, while this pretty much fills the expected titular parameters, and is agreeable enough, it is something you can sip or blast back at will, depending on your predilection for a heady ginger experience. Now where are those darned holiday confections, I need my energy for Mindtrap!
Dec 26, 2013This beer pours a mildly hazy golden yellow hue, with one finger of foamy, rocky, off-white head, which leaves a random sprouting of waterspout lace around the glass as it duly settles.
It smells of gingerbread - a notoriously bready malt and ginger will have that effect - with some otherwise biscuity graininess, and a prominent, indiscriminate, tart fruitiness. The taste is more bready malt, earthy, moderately sweet and zingy ginger root, and still muddled tart fruit, which, given how many Thanksgiving dinners I've passed over the eponymous fruit's serving incarnation, I just can't really say if this is the real deal, or not.
The carbonation is on the soft side, the body medium-light in weight, and rather unperturbed in its smoothitude. It finishes sweet - malty, mostly, the waning ginger and assumed fruitiness not contributing a whole lot further to the cause.
I gotta say, while this pretty much fills the expected titular parameters, and is agreeable enough, it is something you can sip or blast back at will, depending on your predilection for a heady ginger experience. Now where are those darned holiday confections, I need my energy for Mindtrap!
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