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.
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.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Brown bottle, 12 ounces, via Philippe Boutin (merci!), savoured on March 2 2016; eye: black with ruby reflections, opaque, no effervescence, beige head that disappears rapidly like that of a soft drink, no lacing; nose: root beer, vanilla; mouth: root beer, vanilla, finale in root beer with presence of vanilla, light body, rather carbonated, quite sweet, slick texture; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 12 onces, via Philippe Boutin (merci!), savourée le 2 mars 2016; œil : noire avec des reflets rubis, opaque, pas d’effervescence, mousse beige qui disparaît rapidement comme celle d’une boisson gazeuse, pas de dentelle; nez : bière d’épinette, vanille; bouche : bière d’épinette, vanille, finale en bière d’épinette avec présence de vanille, corps léger, plutôt carbonatée, pas mal sucrée, texture coulante; en résumé : correct
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
can - As others have said, it’s basically root beer. It looks, smells, and tastes like root beer. It’s very sweet. The carbonation is on the low side for root beer. It’s very easy to drink and the alcohol is all but undetectable under all that sugar. It’s enjoyable if you like root beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours dark brown with a fizzy/transient beige/tan head. Aroma smells like root beer. Med body or so. Flavor is decent, xpt that there’s way too much sugar. Shame that.
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.
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.
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.
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.