Back Home Gingerbread Stout
Golden Road Brewing in Los Angeles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
Score
6.82
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Pint can into pint glass. Aroma of ginger and currents, like Christmas mince pies. Totally opaque with thin head. Full-bodied with an oily texture. Mouth-filling, it’s like drinking cake. Finish is dried fruit, spices and a raisin alcohol dryness. Great nightcap (in a pint!), really enjoyable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours black with a very small head.Nose shows heavy ginger/cinnamon/nutmeg along with faint roasted malt.Flavours include more of the spices and some faint bready malt alongside a little booze.
DSG (25977) reviewed Back Home Gingerbread Stout from Golden Road Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can sample at a Special Stout tasting at the Beer & Beyond shop. Very dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of cinnamon, clove, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom - quite like duvshaniot, a bit of nuts, caramel and chocolate. Sweet and spicy flavor with winter spices, caramel, chocolate, a bit of nuts, a bit of bitterness, roasty hint. Medium-bodied. Not bad, but too spicy for my liking.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Can. Dark brown with less than a coat of beige head. Some floaties. Lots of ginger, brown sugar, vague antiseptic. Medium bodied, unpleasantly tongue-coating. Sweet with syrupy ginger, dough, odd woody and medicinal notes that stick out at the end. My wife insists that I go and put my head in her late grandmother’s credenza’s side cupboards to appreciate how she thinks it tastes. She likes it more than me. Bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Can. Pours clear ruby black, small tan head, dissipates fairly quickly, some lacing. Aroma is ginger, cinnamon, roasted malts, toffee, allspice. Flavor is medium sweet, light bitter, lots of gingerbread spices. Light body, light acidity. Meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pour is a black with a large tan head. Aroma is a sure fire spice blend of ginger and cinnamon. Flavor is a little bit of a let down. Some of the ginger snap cookie is there but it’s much weaker then the aroma. Also the malts don’t really do anything. No real char or chocolate. Spices are left on the tongue as this goes down. This was ok and could have been beer with a better malt bill. My can says 8.5% abv.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can thanks to Will. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is strong cinnamon, nutmeg, spice. Thin mouthfeel with strong nutmeg and spice, a bit watery, decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can. Pours black tan head. Nose/taste of gingerbread, chocolate, toffee, cookie malt. Medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz can from Imbibe Wine. Nose is chocolate and ginger with the ginger predominant. Clear darkest brown with a big tan head. Flavor is light sweetness with gingerbread and a chocolate drizzle.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can from Whole Foods in Davis, CA. Pours very dark brown with a slight, transient beige head. Aroma is ginger over darkish malt. Med + body. Flavor is ginger "bread" or maybe "snap". This is the flavor. The malt is quite subservient to the ginger. Getting a ginger burn on the top of my tongue. Given the season, it’s a jolly drink whose high ABV is essentially lost in the ginger. Ginger is good!