Humble B Honey Ginger Lager
Penobscot Bay Brewery in Winterport, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
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7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bomber, assumedly fresh, drunk 7/18/15
Very, very carbonated pour is of utmost pale gold with a massive, white head that is well-retained. Unfiltered, with sediment left behind.
The nose is all ginger, with light waxiness from the fermented honey and a touch of tartness, as well. Little/no malt, as the residual honey seems to provide the balance here. I do get a bit of light spiciness/floral notes from the hops, on the finish, which mix with the ginger to give a sort of kaffir lime/lemongrass note. No alcohol, and no flaws.
Flavor is quite gingery, not too much so, thankfully, but you’re certainly not mistaking this for a Czech pils, that’s for sure. The honey is actually quite enjoyable too, providing light stickiness and sweetness to balance, but is also not overdone. The hops, just as in the aroma, mingle with the ginger to create a lemongrass note, which further deepens the spiciness. Carbonation is natural, texture is soft and unfiltered and no alcohol or flaw is found.
On one hand, there’s very little malt here and the texture is a bit thin. I do get a bit of wheat. I don’t know, I suppose the honey provides the sweetness lacking from the malt, and to be fair, the honey flavor is delicious, though unlike nicely extracted, well-attenuated maltiness, this would get fatiguing if you tried to drink it as a session beer, I think. I do like the cleanliness here as well; not a brewing flaw to be found. This is my first beer from Penobscot and it will actually cause me to try another, so I guess that’s saying something. Worried about their malt extraction, though hopefully I’m proven wrong in my next beer I try of theirs.
Very, very carbonated pour is of utmost pale gold with a massive, white head that is well-retained. Unfiltered, with sediment left behind.
The nose is all ginger, with light waxiness from the fermented honey and a touch of tartness, as well. Little/no malt, as the residual honey seems to provide the balance here. I do get a bit of light spiciness/floral notes from the hops, on the finish, which mix with the ginger to give a sort of kaffir lime/lemongrass note. No alcohol, and no flaws.
Flavor is quite gingery, not too much so, thankfully, but you’re certainly not mistaking this for a Czech pils, that’s for sure. The honey is actually quite enjoyable too, providing light stickiness and sweetness to balance, but is also not overdone. The hops, just as in the aroma, mingle with the ginger to create a lemongrass note, which further deepens the spiciness. Carbonation is natural, texture is soft and unfiltered and no alcohol or flaw is found.
On one hand, there’s very little malt here and the texture is a bit thin. I do get a bit of wheat. I don’t know, I suppose the honey provides the sweetness lacking from the malt, and to be fair, the honey flavor is delicious, though unlike nicely extracted, well-attenuated maltiness, this would get fatiguing if you tried to drink it as a session beer, I think. I do like the cleanliness here as well; not a brewing flaw to be found. This is my first beer from Penobscot and it will actually cause me to try another, so I guess that’s saying something. Worried about their malt extraction, though hopefully I’m proven wrong in my next beer I try of theirs.
Tried
on 18 Jul 2015
at 19:03
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Reviewed from old notes. Sorry for the late upload.
I was told that this was made with a lager yeast. So I poured this into a pilsener.
The appearance was a hazy burnt yellow to orange color with a two finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute. There was a fair amount of semi - thick foamy lacing stringing itself around the glass.
The smell had a nice yeasty to spiciness with a decent amount of ginger to light honey.
The taste was mainly the same with more of a sweetness coming out due to the honey.
The palate held its own in every sort of way it could through the honey allocating itself into the ginger to give a slight prickliness but actually smoothing out with the honey. The lager yeast helped to scale down the beer enough to make it fairly sessionable.
Overall, would I have this again, ha no problem but then I’m going to have to get back into trading a bit and finding the Maine who could get this for me. I love ginger and to smooth it out with honey and a lager yeast just screams Summer for me.
I was told that this was made with a lager yeast. So I poured this into a pilsener.
The appearance was a hazy burnt yellow to orange color with a two finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute. There was a fair amount of semi - thick foamy lacing stringing itself around the glass.
The smell had a nice yeasty to spiciness with a decent amount of ginger to light honey.
The taste was mainly the same with more of a sweetness coming out due to the honey.
The palate held its own in every sort of way it could through the honey allocating itself into the ginger to give a slight prickliness but actually smoothing out with the honey. The lager yeast helped to scale down the beer enough to make it fairly sessionable.
Overall, would I have this again, ha no problem but then I’m going to have to get back into trading a bit and finding the Maine who could get this for me. I love ginger and to smooth it out with honey and a lager yeast just screams Summer for me.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2014
at 09:38