My wife leaves out Gingerbread cookies for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve so the aroma and flavor of Gingerbread cookies is one of the elements I most associate with Christmas. There’s also a prominent cinnamon element to the beer, which nicely compliments the ginger. Me? I like ginger (the tea I drink has ginger in it) and gingerbread cookies so this is all fine by me. If you have the least bit of a problem with ginger or gingerbread, don’t go near this beer. The same is true for the beer itself, very heavy on the ginger, which is to be expected. I take a sip and gingerbread is the most prominent element of the beer. In other words, the beer very much smells like gingerbread cookies and Christmas. I get strong aroma of ginger coming off the beer, along with cinnamon. Pop of the can and the beer pours jet black into my Delirium Noël glass.
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Be that as it may, I’ll dive into the beer… That’s quite a bit of preamble with perhaps some unfair expectations set on the beer, I realize. Now, at last I finally picked up a four-pack of a beer many people put on the “Mount Rushmore” of Christmas Beers. Since then, I’ve had a few variants: Christmas Morning, Barrel-Aged/ Kentucky Christmas Morning, and last year, the Barrel-Aged version of this beer. Just a year later, that changed when Hardywood beers begain appearing on NJ shelves. I’ve been circling around this beer for a few years now, going back to 2019 when I featured the beer in that year’s Christmas Six Pack before Hardywood began sending their beers into New Jersey.
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We hope Hardywood Gingerbread Stout contributes to your merriment this season. Made with baby ginger from Casselmonte Farm and wildflower honey from Bearer Farms, Hardywood Gingerbread Stout captures the terroir of Central Virginia in a rich, creamy libation with a velvety mouthfeel and an intriguing evolution of notes from milk chocolate and vanilla, to honeycomb and cinnamon, to a snap of ginger in the finish. A delicious, iconic stout that is a must have during the Yuletide season.įrom the Hardywood’s landing page for the beer: Style: Stout – Imperial / Double Milk | Imperial Milk Stout with Ginger and HoneyĬhristmas in a Glass – it has been said about this beer by others, but it is no less true. Brewing Company: Hardywood Park Craft Brewery