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Golden Road Brewing in Los Angeles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
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6.84
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Rich dark brown coloured body with a nice, three centimetre tall deep tan head. Aroma of pure ginger, mixed with a good dose of roasted malt, canella, sugars, toffee and bunches of lactose - very nice and strong, especially with the ginger. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong malty and earthy flavourings show up at first then give way to a ton of ginger, sugar, lactose and earthy notes - very nice and incredibly flavourful in a good way. Aftertaste shows some alcohol, but a fairly muted and covered bite that shows much more ginger, spice, malt and especially lactose. Overall, a very nice and incredibly well-crafted beer with the milk and ginger flavours the most pungent, but the malt, spice and alcohol shows well, too. Great to sample and well worth trying if you like ginger at all or any other spices in a holiday beer. I sampled this sixteen ounce can purchased yesterday at Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 10-December-2016 for US$3,29 sampled at home in Dearborn, Michigan on 11-December-2016.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Dec 2016
at 13:44
8.2/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Jun 2016
at 09:36
7.4/10
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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.
Tried
on 11 May 2016
at 23:17
5.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2016
at 12:47
4.3/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Mar 2016
at 07:52
6.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Feb 2015
at 20:55
6.4/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2014
at 21:21
5.6/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Dec 2014
at 18:59
6.6/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Dec 2014
at 22:43
7.6/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Nov 2014
at 14:37