Honey Ginger
Ardent Craft Ales in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey Regular|
Score
6.60
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Honey Ginger is a spiced ale brewed with locally sourced honey and fresh, hand-peeled ginger. This medium-bodied beer pours a deep copper color, balancing mild honey sweetness and a spicy ginger bite in a refreshing summer seasonal.
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Tried
from Cask
at
Peterborough Beer Festival (CAMRA)
on 27 Aug 2026
at 11:00
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tried
from Cask
at
Peterborough Beer Festival (CAMRA)
on 26 Aug 2026
at 15:05
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Deep, super robust brown, amber and crisp shiny copper (just like a penny) glow with a nice tint, especially when held up to a light. Aroma of deep honey and super pungent spices with a lot of grain, toffee and deep caramelised sugar with perhaps some ginger noticeable. Medium-bodied; Deep robust malt and caramelised sugars with a lot of pungent and deeper toffee and spice notes that dominate the finish and also show a lot of astringency, especially at the end. Afertaste shows as malt with some caramel, a dose of grain, bananas and more pungent German or even Belgian yeast strain, with a deep finish that shows deep flavours, even on the very end. Overall, decent at best - I'm not sure which style of beer they were going for, but this tastes as a combination of a herrb/spice/veg and a Brown Ale. Not bad, but they usually produce much better beer - this is perhaps too pungent and malt-forward. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 14-June-2019 for US$2,99 sampled at my house here in Washington, a few blocks away on 01-July-2019.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2019
at 07:22