Not Your Father's Ginger Ale
Small Town Brewery in Wauconda, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
Score
5.61
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This is beer flavored with spices. We like to think of it as a refreshing ale with ginger, best served chilled or poured in a glass over ice. We know you’ll enjoy it, we do. Beer brewed with natural flavors and caramel color.
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6/10
Tried
on 15 Oct 2016
at 21:08
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Bert’s Crystal clear deep golden color, initially a small bubbly white head but that disappears almost instantly. Big ginger on the nose and little else. Sweet, very sweet sugary maltiness with a spicy and ginger flavor to it. I don’t like this as much as the root beer. Its not horrible, but I couldn’t drink 12 oz of this its too damn sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2016
at 20:51
4.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Poured from bottle copper golden pour no head. Aromas of ginger. Taste is sickly sweet medicinal ginger sizzyurp. Awful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2016
at 21:25
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a clear copper-gold color with a thin white head that evaporates quickly to a film. Spotty lacing. Aroma of ginger and fruit. Light to medium body with flavors of sweet ginger and spiced fruit. The finish is sweet and effervescent with a ginger aftertaste. Slightly above average overall.
Tried
on 09 May 2016
at 20:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Clear golden coloured body with no head at all. Aroma of ginger, light alcohol and pure sugars - not much too unexpected here. Light-bodied; Strong ginger beer flavour at first (the real stuff) with a candied ginger flavour coupled with a lot of sugar and some light alcohol warmth. Aftertaste is pure ginger beer coupled with a faint bit of sugars - not much alcohol at all to speak of, which is fine. Overall, a touch syrupy and too sweet, but all things considered, if you purchased a product called ’ginger ale’, that had alcohol, then this is what you would probably expect. to have. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Trader Joe’s in Clarendon (Arlington), Virginia a few hours ago on 12-March-2016 for US$1,84 sampled at home in Washington for lunch on 12-March-2016.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Mar 2016
at 11:22
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz bottle from the local Giant. Poured a very carbonated yellow color. Ginger ale notes come through, not as ginger as Canada Dry, but close. A touch medicinal. A little bit of grain alcohol notes I guess. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2016
at 15:55
8/10
Tried
on 03 Feb 2016
at 23:32
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Single bottle from Trader Joe’s. Golden pour looks more like a sparkling cider than a beer. There is a nice ginger smell, with a bit of lemon in the back, at least more zesty than a ginger ale. Taste is okay as a ginger ale, but as a beer? It is quite gingery, but runs way too sweet, just like a soda. There does seem to be a bit of malt at work, and as I go further into the glass, the ginger burn builds nicely. But I can’t get past the extra sugar this seems to be packing, and to wonder whether this is really a "malt beverage," as in Mike’s Hard.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2016
at 22:43
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz bottle poured into a nonic pint glass. Clear ginger ale yellow with rapidly fading off-white bubbles. Aromas of artificial ginger. Tastes of artificial ginger, sugar. Medium-light body, syrupy finish. Pretty one-note.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2016
at 19:44
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours lite gold with no head. Strong ginger aroma. About med body. Lots of ginger - that’s good. But it’s way too sweet. Coming over as a bit gummy. They must have poured in corn syrup. Too bad, cause the ginger is just about right.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2016
at 22:57