Bison Organic Gingerbread Ale

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

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with red highlights. Foamy, soap-like tan head. Quickly vanishing lacing. Pure gingerbread aromas. Ginger, dough, brown sugar, thin molasses. Flavor is the same, naturally. With some coffee, too. Roasted malts, brown sugar, chocolate. Pretty enjoyable. Thin-bodied, chalky mouthfeel. Very drinkable. Better than advertised.

Very impressed with Bison’s Chocolate Stout...not so much with this one. Beer pours an amber/brown color with not much in the way of head or lacing. Smells DELICIOUS, just like a true gingerbread cookie. Hints of oats and other spices as well. Taste is the big let down here; thin, watery, and just too much spice. I couldn’t finish, and instead gave it to my GF to drink. She liked it much more than I did.

Draft @ Barleys, Asheville. Pours a murkyish looking brown with minimal head. Nose is rather gingery (surprise) with some cinnamon, oat-like notes. More ginger on the slightly chewy palate, a good dose of biscuit malt, and not much in the way of a bitter finish. It is what it is, which while enjoyable, is not something I could drink often.

Draught at the Flying Saucer in downtown Raleigh. Very dark, brown. Small head. Aroma is what it says it is: ginger and bread. Flavor is similar, ginger is less pronounced, slightly sweet, ruasty bitter finish.

A very suprising beer nice ginger aroma hits you right from the beging, very smooth creamy head with a lasting lacing. Starts off sweet and creamy and finishes spicy. Really liked the mouth feel of this beer over all a very pleasent porter

Bottle. Pours dark brown/black with a thin beige head. Aroma is more or less gingerbread cookies plus porter---ginger, winter spices, roasted malt, brown sugar, and ash. Flavor is a spiced porter---ginger, winter spices, roasted malt, a bit of ash, and hint of brown sugar (not a sweet beer, though). This is pretty interesting. Initially quite spicy, but that fades as you get used to the spices. Kind of a cross between a spiced winter warmer and a normal porter, which is a combination I like.

Aroma of spice, dark malts, ginger, slight cane sugar. Brown color, small head. Rich flavors of ginger, bitting spice, brown sugar, minerals, tropical fruit rind...not real smooth, but interesting. I’ve had it a few times and will try it again because it’s different and experimental and fun enough~!

650 ml bottle. Dark brown with a fizzy white head. Oddly ginger breadish aroma and taste, but not as great as you might expect.