Framinghammer - Barrel-Aged Gingerbread
Jack's Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Imperial Baltic Winter Out of Production|
Score
7.25
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to cgarvieuk. Appearance - black and an orange chink around the bottom. Tan head. Nose - ginger, molasses and chocolate. Taste - ginger and molasses. Palate - medium to full bodied. Rich texture. Light spice at the back. Overall - good, but shame they had to add ginger.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle thanks to cgarvieuk. Pours clear dark brown with a thin beige head. Aromas of the spices added, vanilla, chocolate. Taste is more of the same. Pretty solid.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle ordered from Noble Green Wines, Hampton. Aroma is chocka with spices but more so than just gingerbread - with the addition of orange peel. Dark and glossy. Fizzy tan head soon pretty much disappears. Light bitter. Dark chocolate. A touch of sourness. Before a biscuity, if not OTT, sweet streak sweeps through. Spicy, of course. The ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves all do their thing. The bitterness returns into the finish. Medium bodied. Slick to creamy. Average carbonation. Long astringent finish. When I spotted the full array of ingredients I wondered if I'd find it sickly but it's just enough. Never going to be a sessionable beer but a desert sipper. Although I should have tried the standard version first... this is just what I picked up.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Westhill Service Station. It pours black with a quickly dissipating khaki head. The aroma is festive spice action, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel, big gingerbread vibes, toasty spice, earthy roast, vanilla cake frosting, cinnamon roll and rocky road. The taste is dry, roasted malt, toast, bitter - sweet, warming festive spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread, bourbon soaked oak, light tannin, toasted coconut in the backdrop, rocky road, vanilla, spice, toothy, cake frosting, candy cane and some mellow alcohol warmth with a toasty, warning spice finish. Medium - fulsome body and moderate, foamy carbonation. Pretty silly stuff. Novel and fine for the festive period, but bit sure I would choke back pints of it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is huge ginger, toffee, chocolate, bready, taste is fiery ginger, toffee, vanilla, the ginger is a bit overpowering. --- Beer merged from original tick of Gingerbread BA Framinghammer on 16 Dec 2020 at 19:40 - Score: 7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours mahogany tinged black into a shaker. Mocha head with good retention recedes leaving scant sheets to coat surface. Sweet wintergreen, root beer and ginger aromas. Soft with hot root beer and ginger upfront turning to hot mint and chocolate before the last espresso finish... strange.