Fog Nog Double Dry Hopped Double India Pale Ale with Lactose and Spices

Review Date 12/8/2024  By John Staradumsky

  Style: Imperial IPA   Brewery: Abomination   Country: USA   State: Connecticut   $ Per OZ: $.36 (B)   ABV: 9.1%

Well, here we go again. I just pulled up Word and opened my tasting notes for Abomination Fog Nog Double Dry Hopped Double India Pale Ale with Lactose and Spices, quite intent on fleshing them out into this review you are now reading. That got me thinking that last holiday season I had enjoyed Abomination’s Gingerbread Fog, so why not go back to that review and see what I wrote?

Except I didn’t. Write the review I mean. Oh sure, I found my notes for Gingerbread Fog, but I had never finished the full review. Which I will be doing as soon as I finish this one. So, my friends, you will be getting back to back Fog here at Guruofbrew.com, all at no extra charge! How about that?

But wait! There’s more! I also found tasting notes from Abomination Forbidden Pumpkin that I took in 2021, and I have a can of their Wandering Into The Snow I have yet to drink. So yeah. Things are about to really get Abominable.

Anyway, Abomination contract brews their beer apparently at Twelve Percent Beer Project in New Haven, Connecticut. Abomination has a web page but it offers no information on their beer, but does have some really cool label art that makes great desktop wallpaper.

Abomination Fog Nog has an alcohol content of 9.1% by volume and I paid $8.49 for my pint can from Half Time. Total Wine sells it for $22.99 a 4-pack in Columbia, South Carolina. My can had no freshness dating. This is a egg nogg inspired version of Abomination’s flagship Wandering Into the Fog IPA.

Abomination Fog Nog Double Dry Hopped Double India Pale Ale  with Lactose and Spices pours to a hazy orange color with a thick fluffy head and a nose of orange juice and seasonal spice. Taking a sip, the beer immediately pops with orange and tangerine juice, and it is very citric juicy indeed. It’s a little creamy like egg nogg from the lactose, and the light spicing of ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon to my taste make this a festive treat. The spice dries the beer in the finish, and it works surprisingly well with the juice notes.

More hazy juicy IPA than egg nogg, but you get both, and I really like this.

Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??