6.8

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

Ginger-flavoured ale by this all-female microbrewery in Amsterdam, having made its way to the Albert Heijn supermarket shelves apparently. Very thick and foamy, egg-white, busily cobweb-lacing, very regular and dense, creamy head resting heavily on a misty apricot blonde beer with pale orange tinge. Aroma of very strong soapy and spicy ginger, not just ginger root and gari but ginger cookies and ginger ale as well, lemonade or even Fanta, ripe banana, brioche bread, ripe pear, freshly cut sweet red apple, fresh basil (probably just the ginger again), lime zest, melon, minerals, white pepper, field flowers. Sweet onset with sourish edge and ginger spiciness right on, banana, ripe pear, apple peel and some peach, fizzy carbonation with minerally effects lasting deep into the finish; slick cereally pale malt core, sweetish and a tad bready, deeply soaked in more sweet than spicy ginger, which has the upper hand all through. Lingering sparkling water minerality and 'yellow' fruitiness in the end, while the ginger does become spicy after all, though lacking the 'burn' I was expecting; more alarmingly, the finish also lacks hop bitterness (even if some aromatic citrusy zestiness is certainly there), so that apart from this peppery ginger spicy effect, not much 'body' is added and the whole ends somewhat watery. I have nothing against ginger-flavoured beers (though ginger may not be my personal favourite when it comes to beer flavourings), but this one feels rather sweet, thin and watery, due to a lack of hops; I guess these ladies thought the ginger was going to be enough and would solve it all, but a beer like this really needs hop bitterness too to lend body to the finish and support the ginger even in a ginger-dominated beer. Likeable enough if you are into ginger, but structurally rather feeble and poorly constructed so ending up a simplistic one-trick pony, I regret to say.

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6.2

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

Bottle, 6.2%. Caramelly, herbal and spicy aroma with teaish notes. Cloudy golden colour. Good stable white head. The flavour of flowery and perfumy with peach notes. Rose petals? Ok malty base. Low to medium bitterness.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

33cl Fles. Tarwe, iets granig, verder glad, fris, licht zuurtje, grapefruit en een hint van citroengras, licht kruidig. Lichte body.

6.1

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

Bottle. Pours nearly clear golden with airy white head. Clear aroma of ginger, with notes of malt and touches of yeast and bread. Bitter flavour of ginger, with peppery and hoppy touches and malty and estery notes. Gingery and peppery aftertaste with notes of lozenges. Well, not the worst ginger beer I have had, but not really my idea of good beer, either.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle, 4.6%. Distinct note of light caramel. Like citric lime bonbons or something. Almost clear golden colour. Small white head. The flavour has the same light caramel note as the aroma, but it turns out to be ginger. Not the urine kind, but burns nicely.

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Pittig

6.1

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

33cl bottle at The Fiddler, The Hague, The Netherlands. Pours medium transparent gold, with minimal foam. Aroma is fairly phenolic, honey. Body and carbonation are average. Taste is fairly sweet. Final is average.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

330 bottle. Pours a clear gold with light head. Aromas of herbal gin and soft wheat. Flavors follow same with additional candied citrus. Nice body. Interesting