BEER REVIEW: Ginja
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Reviewed by:  allovate on 2006-04-01 | ||||
| Colour: 4.00 | Aroma: 5.00 | Taste: 5.00 | Drinkability: 5.00 | Total: 4.75 |
| Comments: Surprisingly pleasant Ginger ale you feel like drinking in place of a can of coke for the lunchtime meal. Poured a medium burnished gold, quite clear, with a white head that formed on the pour, died back and later regrouped as a thin dense pad. Quite pleasant and generous in the nose; spicy, woody and lightly sweet ginger aroma with a backing note of fresh crushed pasty nuts like pistachio or macadamia. Quite soft and almost gooey in the mouth, not overly strong in the ginger department, but there was a sweetness to it suiting its low ABV. The carbonation was pleasant and a light earthy and zesty ginger flavour mixed well with doughy malt notes and a hint of vanilla up front. Light in body and creamy, it finished off quite crisp with a little lingering ginger gumminess that was quite nice for the style. This was easy to drink and as I love a good ginger ale it made a pleasant change from beer for just one night. Now if the boss would only let me down these at work!?! Hmmm... (33cL, 12/05/06) | ||||
Reviewed by:  rowdy47 on 2007-07-14 | ||||
| Colour: 7.00 | Aroma: 9.00 | Taste: 9.00 | Drinkability: 7.00 | Total: 8.00 |
| Comments: For starters when I visited the brew was boasting 3.0% abv. secondly I have rated this beer purely on its merit. They call it a beer but I am not sure it cuts the mustard. According to the hotel it has won awards as a beer so who am I to argue. This is a massive ginger beer, and if you like ginger beer then you will love this one the only difference is its got alcohol. its clear as a bell, ginger flavour and aroma is massive, when you get your nose into it you expect a dry ginger flavour but not the case. Its a little sweet. this is what effects the drinkability to me. That and I am not a Ginger beer fan so I can only guess what its like, I had it on a 40 degree day loved it, almost wanted to drop a shot of scotch into it. | ||||