Atlantic Mount Desert Island Ginger

Brewed by Atlantic Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Bar Harbor, Maine USA

This is a dark gold beer with a small head and an average mouth feel. The flavor is mellow with a little hoppy bitterness and ginger bite, and some sweet spice in the aftertaste. This could be bolder and more fun - it is primarily a mild wheat beer with unusual touches.

poured a very thin amber color with no head at all and no lacings. it smelled very sweet but not really any ginger at all. it had a taste of ginger but not much at all and was too light on the palate for me.

Date: 09/25/1995
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

Light and refreshing, good ginger smell and taste, ginger may be too strong
-------- /> Date: 06/08/2005
Words: Bottle
Words: Tasting

clear amber, big fresh ginger aroma, good ginger flavor like a ginger ale (ha!), light spicy bitter finish, refreshing
-------- /> Date: 08/31/2005
Mode: bottle

bitter finish builds up a bit too much by the end of the glass,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Score: *4
-------- /> The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

This is a decent beer considering the style. I love wheat beer and ginger so this was a good mix. Aroma was decent..a little ginger but not much with some wheat in there. Pour was a nice dark gold with a one finger white head. Taste was gingery and spicey...wheat is an aftertaste and very weak. This is a novelty beer that is good when you’re in the mood but nothing to be taken seriously.

The bottle poured cloudy copper color w/ dissipating thin head. Aroma of yeast and sweet maltiness with citrus notes or oranges or lemons. I don’t really get ginger except for a slight burn from the initial sip. Very crisp with mellow lingering ginger sensation in the chest. Almot anisthetic. A little more syrupy as it warms. Sweetness really comes out but lacks complexity. A bit thin and aggressively carbonated.

The aroma is only mildly ginger accented. The main aroma is detergent and wheat accented fruits. The body is a murky golden color and holds a limp pinky sized white head. The fore is, again, mildly ginger accented though the flavor grows in intensity It’s a bit wheaty/grainy and rustic, but in the way a Weyerbacher I just had is.....simple rustic rather than complex and rustically made. <P> On the whole it is still a fairly drinkable beer and probably one of my favorite from this brewer.

12oz, no date. Cloudy brown golden with a lot of floaties and a short-lived white head. Go figure ginger is the first aroma. It actually smells a lot like Honey Sun Iqhilika (Mead) - Chili without the chili, of course. There is also some earth and lemon tang. Flavor has some earthy bitterness (2-3 out of 10), ginger, and a crisp wheaty finish, semidry. Moderate carbonation, medium body. Not too bad of a ginger, though not as good as Hitachino Nest’s.

Bottle. Amber color with quite a bit of carbonation, a little bit of haze and a quickly fleeting head. Aromas are fairly beer-like, and maybe I can smell some ginger (although it might just be that I’m trying too hard.) As it has sat for a minute the ginger picks up and becomes more detectable. Flavor starts off fairly nice and then goes horrendously wrong, but it’s in those first fractions of a second that I find myself thinking this is nice... caramel malt body, a little bit of a hops presence. Then I get hit by a sweet and medicinal flavor that ruins it for me.