Bison Organic Gingerbread Ale

Brewed by Bison Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Berkeley, California USA

dark mohagany appearance with a creamy off white head, nose is sweet and malty with molasses undertones, really smells just like gingerbread dough. nice flavor of roasted malts with some coffee hints and a slightly dry gingerbread like finish. creamy mouthfeel. pretty good, the nose was much more remenisent of gingerbread than the taste

Pours a dark brown with a decent tan head. Aroma is of roasted malt and coffee, but a bit weak. Tastes like a gingerbread cookie soaked in dark roast coffee. Finish is a bit bitter. More like a sweet stout than a porter.

dark mahogany brown, semi-opaque and golden brown at edges. head is medium tan, tall, and dense foamy/slightly fluffy. aroma is sour grassy roasted malt, some allspice and nutmeg. carbonation is good, texture is a bit light. flavor is dry roasted malt, a little grassy, and some more allspice & nutmeg, a little clove too. finish is dry roasted grassy malt, a little hop bitter aftertaste. definately a porter, but not sweet like I was expecting.

The aroma has some gingerbread but it is mostly coffee and caramel. The appearance is dark brown with a small but persistent head. The flavor is bitter with chocolate, coffee, and a little gingerbread but not enough. The palate is thin. I really liked the idea of a Gingerbread ale so I was expecting a lot and therefor it was not all it could be.

Smells wonderful, its got that real Autumn sense. The taste of gingerbread is apparent, the highly malty taste is very nice, yet it falls a little thin at the end. Very good.

22oz bottle. This was a kinda interesting brew. I enjoy the anchor OSA quite a bit, but this one lacked a bit of warmth. The gingerbread taste was good, but the body was thin and lacked some sweetness up front to give it a more warming cold night after dinner brew effect. Needed some more body, was just to thin on the palate.

Bottle. Poured clear dark brown with a huge creamy light brown head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Solid spicy ginger and malt aroma. Light to medium body with a thin texture. Medium sweet spice malty flavor with a medium bitter finish of moderate duration. Solid drinkable beer.

Wow the ginger bread aroma hits you as the lid is popped.I like gimmicky beers.Bison did a good job on this.A dark beer with a medium body with lots of gingerbread flavor.The flavor stayed for the whole ride.The end was clean.