I was so sad, but it renewed my motivation to get my hands on Cabin Fever. Think a mix of cleaning chemicals out of the cabinet combined with pesticides and you might be on the right track for what crown’s version of “maple” resembles… I gave the rest to my mom, who mixed with a bunch of other stuff to be able to cover the nastiness. I can’t even begin to describe what it tastes like other than having a heavily “chemical” taste (I was going to say “after taste” but it’s really like that from first sniff). It wasn’t sweet, but it also certainly wasn’t maple flavor. The chemical taste overpowered even the alcohol flavor. Unfortunately, I about spilled the remainder of my glasses as I spit out what was in my mouth. I took it home excited to try something that could quell my thirst for Cabin Fever. They only had one size, so I reluctantly shelled out $32 for it. I caved and tried Crown’s new maple flavored whiskey. No one wanted to order it without me committing to buy an entire case (now, I love the stuff, but a case would last me a year and cost way too much). I visited a number of stores with no luck. Then we moved and something horrible happened: it was so new with so limited marketing, no one here carried it. I first tried Cabin Fever up north on a whim (ginormous package store, fresh paycheck, liked the thought of maple in my alcohol). It may get better the more you drink of it, but neither of us could get past the initial assault on our mouths to give it more of a go. The only thing I tasted was bitter cough syrup. Even if you define tea as any vegetative substance steeped in water, Twisted Tea tastes nothing like any of it… Seriously, the stuff is aweful. I drink many different kinds both cold and hot. Their website (and commercials) claim that they strive to make an alcoholic tea that “actually tastes like tea.” I’m not quite sure what their concept of tea is, but they are way off base. Either way, both of us give it a very definte THUMBS DOWN. I’m not quite sure why she didn’t warn me about it perhaps payback for letting her struggle with dishes earlier in the evening? I dunno. I guess if cough syrup, a chemical spill, and grain alcohol had a love child, it might taste something like the peach twisted tea… It’s smooth for that half-second before you want to tear your tongue out and scrub it clean… Lisa had tried it while I was in the shower, and she had a similar reaction. More on that later though.Īnyway, we finally got around to trying the Twisted Tea last night. I picked up a 6-pack of Harpoon Brewery’s Gingerland UFO and called it a day. Ok, I snagged the twisted tea then did a few circles in the aisle trying to settle on a palatable beer that also fell in our price-range. She reminded me to hurry, because we still had to grab coleslaw before the retaurant closed for the holiday… I LOVE peach tea, so what’s the harm in trying this stuff right? A little kick might take the tea to a whole new level… I cosulted the wife (who was in her pj’s in the car), and she agreed we could try it. Lisa asked for some Mike’s Hard Lemonade. Right next to the Mike’s, I spied Twisted Tea. The other night, realizing that we would be out of alcohol for Thanksgiving, I made a quick beer run to the package store down the street. It is definitely a beer worth trying this holiday season, but I would not drink a six pack.That “little” hiatus tuned into almost 2 years. It finishes dry, so despite its alluring perfect gingerbread smell, the flavor is going to be that of a wheat beer with a ginger hops combination. Rather it is light, more floral, and complex. in contrast to the name I would say that this beer does not really taste like a gingerbread cookie. At times it almost tastes like the beer version of a dark and stormy. Gingerland has a gingery body, that drops dry wheat, and finishes with some gingerbread. We are fast approaching the beat your red-headed step child holiday so bring that freak out into the cold and smack the freckles off it, in a metaphoric manner of course, because we don’t do that (wink, wink). The other more politically correct way to welcome in the holidays might be to try a UFO Gingerland. The Murph’s Thoughts (start beating your kids for the holidays) I don’t think I would buy or drink it again. I think this beer (or concept) could have been executed so much better. With a name like Gingerland I was expecting something more gingery, like a ginger beer (non-alcoholic), but it just didn’t deliver. It was fairly smooth, but the end had a kind of musty/bitter flavor. I definitely would not have named the beer after ginger. If the name didn’t mention ginger I don’t even know that I would pick up on it (smell or taste). When I smelled this beer I got a very strong banana smell, but almost no ginger–just a tiny bit at the end. Gingerland is one of Harpoon Brewery’s UFO (unfiltered offering) beers.
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