Not Your Father’s Ginger Ale
Small Town Brewery
(5.9% alcohol by volume)
Here’s another seriously sweet one for the books.
It’s kinda sorta semi-interesting. Though the sweetness tends to overwhelm, there is an interesting sugary sweet crystalized ginger flavor that’s present here. So, on the one hand, we find this a bit interesting. Yet, simultaneously, we find this to be our major problem with this ginger ale. We were hoping for more of a fresh, spicy ginger beer bite. A spicy bite would aid in cutting all of that sweetness. Instead, we find the flavor to be more muted. It’s a bit like long stewed ginger simmering in thick, sticky sugar syrup. But, the taste of ginger is real and it has a really lovely complexity that you would expect ginger to bring to the party. If you’re hoping for a spicy, bright ginger beer bite, you’ll probably be disappointed. Then again, if you’re happy to drink a sweet (Full Sugar Soda SWEET) hard ginger ale… this might fit the bill.
Granted, it is labeled ginger ale… not ginger beer.
A splash in a cocktail, will be tasty. We’re sure of that. There is a high end quality to this ginger ale. But, to drink straight, it’s very sticky sweet. We shared one. And, we were done. We’ll be experimenting with the rest in cocktails.
We both prefer Not Your Father’s root beer. (Those are super sweet, too. We find all of that sweetness to be more fitting for a root beer. Root beer is always sticky sweet. We enjoy sharing one.)
Not Your Father’s Ginger Ale
