McCoys Ginger Shandy

Brewed by McCoys Public House
Style: Fruit Beer
Kansas City, Missouri USA

Tap @ McCoy’s Public House. Cloudy, bright yellow. Looks like a ground ginger and lemonade. Great aroma of ginger ale and Chick-fil-A lemonade. Awesome. So f’n refreshing. Combination of pure cane sugar ginger ale. No bite and home squeezed lemonade. A perfect blend. I’d let my kid drink this stuff. Yummy.

Shaker pint pour at the brewpub in Kansas City, Missouri. Pour is cloudy orange copper with a small white head. Aroma of lemons, ginger, amd big sugar sweetness - like a packet of sugar was dropped in. Bright and fresh. Taste is ginger, syrupy sweet and some soda water. Palate is super spritzy more of the tangy ginger and citrus. Weird but more or less refreshing on a beautiful day on the McCoys porch.

Date: February 25, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: hazy pae yellow, fine white head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet ginger aroma
Flavor: lots of sweet candy flavor, plenty of ginger to meld with the sweetness to create a crystalized ginger flavor
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

On tap at McCoys in KC. Pours a very cloudy golden yellow body with a thin white head that leaves quickly and remains minimally laced. Aroma is ginger and lemonade. Very sweet and tart. Smells more like a stale juice than a beer. Flavor is way too sweet and lemonade-ish. Ugh, kinda tasty, but not beer. Some ginger taste and a bit puckery with the dominant lemon taste. Palate is medium bodied and crisp. Overall, I can see drinking this after a workout, but not much else. Way too sweet and un-beer-like. The ginger is nice, but eh...

Pour is a cloudy yellow with a white head. Aroma is a bit chemical with a bit of ginger in there. Flavor tried to out ginger a ginger ale. That’s not a bad thing but the end result is a very sweet ginger beer with a bit of heaveyness. This is really to sweet to try more than just a sample but if you like ginger this is right up your alley. All the girls around us seemed to love this.

4 oz sample. Pale yellow, unfiltered, sour, tart, lemony nose. Taste is very sweet, a bit cloying, gingery, sticky, flavorful. Enjoyable taste but I could not drink a pint of this.

on tap at Parkville Microfest. Cloudy yellow color with bubbly white head. Aroma: ginger ale. flavors include pepper, lemons, and ginger. A truly delighful and refreshing beer. 2009 Parkville update: Ginger lemon goodness with lemony chunks of mystery. I really like this beer. Too bad I only get to drink it once a year at Parkville.

This was enjoyable if you like alot of spiciness in your beer from ginger. I prefer to drink ginger ale in a can and carbonated or with some bourbon, not in a beer, that’s just me.