4.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle. Slightly cloudy deep gold. Medium sized head. Aroma was gingerbread but it was not a pleasant smell. Maybe like old stall gingerbread. Taste was not much better. It had that spicy taste but it had a lot of off taste that was not very good.

9

Deliciously Christmas!

4.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle at Headliners. Pours a clear copper with small off white head that lasts. The aroma is caramel, spice, corn. Thin mouth, bread, grain, metallic finish.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 4/18/2016. Pours slightly hazy reddish copper color with a 2 finger dense and fluffy light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, wheat, toasted biscuit, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt, spices, and light earthy yeast/hop notes; with good strength. Taste of caramel, brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, wheat, toasted biscuit, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/spice bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, wheat, toasted biscuit, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice robustness, complexity, and balance of dark/bready malt, spices, and light earthy yeast/hop flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from spice bitterness as well. Medium carbonjation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready, and slightly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish. Overall this is a nice spiced pale wheat ale style. All around good robustness, complexity, and balance of dark/bready malt, spices, and light earthy yeast/hop flavors; and very smooth, clean, and easy to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.

4.8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle. Ginger, cinnamon, bready malt aroma. Amber with large off white head. Sweet spicy ginger, caramel malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Body a bit light. Decent.

5.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

12oz bottle. Yep, another unenticing Blue Moon tick. Filtered copper body. Thin, steady, off-white head. Not so bad, but not so good either. Not far at all removed from a pumpkin spiced beer. Kind of a beer aimed at a non-beer drinker. Sweet, not much depth besides the spices. Pretty weak offering...surprise, surprise.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pour is a clear brown with a small white head. Aroma is full of spice. For a Blue Moon beer this is surprising with the amount if cinnamon and nutmeg in this. Flavor is an ok spice but I thought it would be more after the aroma. There is a decent spice and it does remind me of holiday gingerbread.

4.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

12 oz twist off bottle that was part of the World Market Winter Brews 9 pack, courtesy of my in-laws. The pour is a clear copper golden brown with a small light tan head. The head falls fast and the beer is almost completely still, looks like prune juice in the glass. The aroma is straightforward ginger bread, ginger, sweet and a bit of toasted malt. The taste is a sharp ginger up front, cloying chemical sweet in the middle, dirty cereal grain malt in the back. The palate is medium bodied with softer carbonation and an off malt aftertaste. I thought this might be OK after the smell, it wasn’t.

4.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Pours a clear copper colour, ample head of foam.

Smell is light; spicy gingerbread is there, barely.

Same for the taste, well, a bit more assertive. Still not at the level I want; I dig gb cookies. The finish is on the watery side.

I had to try it, seeing it on draught at Old Chicago. Had. ..no need to repeat.

5.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured an orangish-brown color with a medium sized foamy beige head that left minimal lacing. The aroma was gingerbread, bread dough and ginger. The flavor was bitey and a touch harsh gingerbread with a bit of yeast and tobacco underneath. Medium length finish. Medium body. Ok.