Gingerbread Fog
Abomination Brewing Company

 

Aroma is sweet citrus, spices and a hint of lactose. The flavor is citrus, malts/grains and a mildly sweet lactose/spices/tropical hop/hop resin finish.

Poured from a can. Orangish in color and opaque with a foamy head and lacing. Smells of citrus, bread and hops. Flavors of citrus, baking spices, malt and biscuit. Flavor profile is more unique and pretty tasty.

 

Copper colored with a very hazy complexion. There’s an inch of densely packed off white on top. Heavy, soapy lacing is present. The aroma is of cinnamon, graham cracker, and lemon to lime hops and lactose. I’m tasting cinnamon, lactose, lemon and lime hops. The mouth is smooth and easygoing.

 

 

16oz can. Poured out a cloudy, golden orange color with a small, off-white head of foam. It left sudsy trails of lace on the glass. It smelled of ginger, caramel, toffee and grains. It tasted of gingerbread, cookies and caramel.

As the fog keeps rolling through the beer landscape, even Christmas Ale isn't safe from it. Abomination's Fog series of beer now takes on the holiday spices even when making a foggy hoppy ale.

With a heavy silt and diffused visual weight, Gingerbread Fog lifts a creamy meringue of froth while bringing a wallop of floral aromas laced with citrus, spice, tropical fruit, herb, cream and candy in a heavy potpourri direction. As its flavors ensue, the creaminess of cereal, cookie dough and powdered sugar give a richer early palate in true cookie form.

As the rise of hops cut through the heavy grain sweetness, a fruity set of flavors include tropical suggestions of pineapple, passionfruit, mango papaya and more citrusy flavors of tangerine, red grapefruit and lime. All wrapped in a cocoon of cantaloup and simple syrups, the ale awaits those spices of ginger, nutmeg, clove and cinnamon to meet the fruit in a strong perfumy taste to close.

Full bodied, weightily and persistently sweet, the firm malt foundation keeps the spice and fruit flavors balanced and supported while a slim bitterness helps to take an edge off of the breadiness without interfering with the impressions of gingerbread that close out the session.

Lots of hazy in this beer. Nose is typical of a hazy, but you can tell there is added spices to the beer. Taste is again typical of hazy IPAs, but again the spices and sweetness. Not sure if it the power of suggestion of real, but I tasted gingerbread on the backend.

 

This is what happens to brews that get left in your refrigerator. They become un-loved.
I added this brew over 7 months ago that was canned over 18 months ago.
I don't know if other reviews were from the same release as mine, but I will accept most their comments... even though they don't agree much with one another. I accept this because I don't visit this style much at all and won't miss it if I never have another IIPA.

I waited so long to drink this because it is from my previous days of tasting as many different brewers as I could. I no longer do that because I too often ended up drinking beer I knew I wouldn't like. On that note, I owe Abomination a micro-review but will forgo as their website and image is not impressive for a six year old brewer. The average Overall Hugs I give them is because they had the good sense to be in the 12th Percent network.

Pours a hazy straw color with two fingers of head. The nose is predominantly piney. Damned if it doesn't tastes like someone dunked a few gingerbread cookies into an IPA. But, that said, what was the goal of this combination?

If this was an attempt to create a hazy version of Celebration, I must say that it fell way short. This offering is decent as a one off, but it's not something I would want to have a four-pack of for darn sure.

 

 

 

 

 

Tasty enough, these 'Fog' variants are pretty fun usually, thought with prices being what they are becoming, I'll probably have to buy less and less in the future to try them out. This was a decent offering, not my favorite but nothing wrong; spice, cardamom, even some ginger, still hoppy but also bready and a bit sweet with a creamy body (lactose I'm sure).

Emptying a pint can into a clear glass liter mug causes a foamy stark white mess to form above the beer. It's loose, rather than tight foam and recedes quickly, unevenly and without any lacing inside the glass. The liquid is the now too common dark and dense dirty blond that announces there's wheat and/or oats here, not barley malt. There's somewhat of a spicy aroma, although it's not pronounced, nor reminiscent of gingerbread. There doesn't seem to be much, if any ginger smell at all. After that comes starches and a little hopping. First off, it drinks flatly, needful of more carbonation. Although it doesn't taste badly, it certainly misses the gingerbread target. It's more like a nutmeg and/or allspice brew than a ginger one. Its sweetness is more shallow than a gingerbread-like sweetness, closer to just sugary sweet. So, it's a sugary sweet IIPA that tastes like spices, just not the one it purports to be. The best that can be reported about this brew is that its high ABV is barely noticeable. Overall, there are more minuses than plusses here, including the light and lifeless mouthfeel.