Bison Gingerbread Ale

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Toasty malt aroma has bready and, yes, ginger overtones. Pours barely translucent mahogany with a fairly thick dirty light tan head. Flavor has roast malt at its core, which supports ginger, cloves, and subtle caramel notes. Texture is rather watery and not too fizzy. Still, a good brew for the winter holidays, whatever you celebrate.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

I picked this up from the Wine Gourmet in Roanoke, VA. This beer was WAY TOO THIN! I was expecting something like a spiced winter warmer ... big and full. It was neither and the flavor was too spiced biased. Not very balanced.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

This grew on me a little towards the last sample of the 4-pack. A little thin for a porter. Flavors kind of like a sour. Has potential to be an 8 in that category, but the balance not quite there. A little too much spice for my preference though, as it overtakes the chocolate malty qualities that represents this style.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

This spiced organic porter was brought back from Las Vegas, by Lilihel. Pours a dark brown, cola-like, with a beige frothy head, good retention and somewhat creamy lace. Ginger aromas with notes of grain, cinnamon and outside green, from the hop. Mild creamy mouthfeel, but a little on the thin side. The hop seems to take over in the taste, still on the mild side, but with the light porter characteristics, and the spices showing a little in the finish. Roasted malt in the aftertaste with the hop lingering. Wish the spices and porter-side was a little more powerful, than the hop, and the palate a slightly heavier.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

A beer of the month club entry for NOV/DEC 2010. Pours a nice dark color, short lived head and a flavor that is pleasant but typically thin by the Bison brewery standard. The brew is refreshing, but just a little light a flavor, the spice element is there, but rather subtle.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

A deep black colored ale, like a porter. Small frothy off white head, disappears quickly. Light isles of lacing remain on top. The aroma is all about spices, ginger front and center. A bready malt holds up as the foundation in the smells. But, it’s about the spices. Light to moderate body. The carbonation is just right. The taste is ginger, cinnamon and a bitterness from the roasted malt. This ale is presented because of it’s taste. It’s bold and unique.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

cooky-ish, thinner on body than i expected. pleasany malty roasted aroma. i appreciate what they were going for here, even if they didn't quite get there. good for bison, just ok overall.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Picked this up because it sounded Christmassy. I was not expecting a porter to be the base beer, though. Strangely enough, after a couple of sips, this really started to work. The rich malt flavors of the porter were there, and then come in the spices (mostly cinnamon). Heavy cinnamon in the aroma also. The mouthfeel could be a tad thicker. This doesn't taste anything like gingerbread, but it is an interesting invention, the likes of which I have never tasted before. This isn't a beer I would run out and buy more of, but the chance to taste it once was surely enlightening.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Faint ginger aroma, mostly porter/stout like taste, smooth roasty with a mild spice character. Mouthfeel a little weak. I was hoping for more like a brown or golden ale anyway the spices dont seem to work with this dark beer

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 7

humm~ i taste no gingerbread. all i taste is another American stout. it does not taste like a spiced ale. Poured very dark blood red. with little brown head. good for a plain stout. not good for a gingerbread ale!