Ginger Beer
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 7.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 16, 2016
- Added:
- Jan 31, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle. Alley Kat has produced other ginger beers before, but this one is apparently made with some rye malt - so, rye 'n ginger, anybody?
This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some layered tabletop cloud lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of well-behaved ginger root, bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled citrus flesh, and an ethereal sense of spiced rye loaf. The taste is crackery and still doughy caramel malt, a lesser ginger spiciness, an indistinct grainy otherness (so, the rye, then), bitter citrus rind, and more subtle leafy, earthy, and kind of floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is nice and level in its friendly frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, once you take the mild ginger zinginess out of the equation. It finishes off-dry, the ginger tailing off almost completely now, as the meek mixed graininess continues to wander about my increasingly disinterested palate.
Not a bad rendition of this so-far unrecognized style, as the ginger is kept well in check, and the rye adds a wee soupcon of variability to that house malt backbone. However, I take minor truck with their 'An ale with attitude' slogan - is this making an inference about the effects of drinking too much rye, or perhaps the supposed temperament of gingers? I would hope so, because it can't be referring to the beer itself.
Feb 01, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some layered tabletop cloud lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of well-behaved ginger root, bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled citrus flesh, and an ethereal sense of spiced rye loaf. The taste is crackery and still doughy caramel malt, a lesser ginger spiciness, an indistinct grainy otherness (so, the rye, then), bitter citrus rind, and more subtle leafy, earthy, and kind of floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is nice and level in its friendly frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, once you take the mild ginger zinginess out of the equation. It finishes off-dry, the ginger tailing off almost completely now, as the meek mixed graininess continues to wander about my increasingly disinterested palate.
Not a bad rendition of this so-far unrecognized style, as the ginger is kept well in check, and the rye adds a wee soupcon of variability to that house malt backbone. However, I take minor truck with their 'An ale with attitude' slogan - is this making an inference about the effects of drinking too much rye, or perhaps the supposed temperament of gingers? I would hope so, because it can't be referring to the beer itself.
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