Bison Organic Gingerbread Ale

I had been putting off drinking this one because the name just didn’t appeal to me. I was wrong. This was an OK beer. Not overwhelming with ginger on the nose or tongue. Mostly I taste dark malt and brown sugar with a hit of ginger.

Bomber. The body is dark brown with some dark amber highlights. The head is light tan and huge. The aroma is light gingerbread with some caramel. There is also some green beans and earhty cigarette tobacco. The taste is light caramel with a little bit of the ginger in the finish. There is also some apples and black tea. The base beer seems to be a middle of the road brown ale.

I was very excited about the aroma of this beer, but the flavor was awful. The aroma is like a fresh baked gingerbread cookie with some brown sugar notes, but the aroma all but disappears in the taste. It smells like it will be sweet, but the aroma is lost in the porterness of this beer. Did not like it.

Dark brown pour with a big brown fizzy head. Very light hints of brown sugar and ginger on the nose. Flavor has ginger, sugar, and finishes with roast. A lot of carbination in this one.

Bottle. Medium size frothy, fizzy tan head that was mostly lasting, spotty amounts of lacing, transparent, fizzy, fast rising carbonation observed, and a mahogany hue. The nose was malt, sugar, light roasty notes, spicy, sweet, and what else? gingerbread!! Flavor was sweet, roasty, malty, spicy, gingerbread, hint of smokiness, and finishes dry and somewhat thick and chewey. Fairly smooth mouthfeel and dry and medium in body. Quaffable, but not a beer I want to have again as a beer that reminds me of gingerbread just doesn’t cut it for me. To each their own as the saying goes.