Gingerbread Fog Double Dry Hopped Double India Pale Ale with Spices

Review Date 12/9/2024  By John Staradumsky

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

So there I was, enjoying my morning coffee and all set to write my review of Abomination Fog Nog for you to enjoy. Perhaps you find it odd that I would be writing a beer review in the morning with coffee rather than when I am actually drinking the beer, which is not in the morning. Do you write coffee reviews in the evening, brewguru, while you’re enjoying a beer? Rest assured, I do not.

For me, though, beer reviewing is a process. The process begins by taking tasting notes in the evenings while I am drinking the beer, and fleshing those out with observations, facts, and random ramblings in the morning. Then I paste the text into my web page template, add photos and graphics, tweak the HTML code, and post it here where you are reading it here on Guruofbrew.com. So now you know how that works.

Anyway, as I mentioned, there I was, enjoying my morning coffee and all set to write my review of Abomination Fog Nog for you to enjoy. In the midst of this, I noticed that I had taken notes on Abomination Gingerbread Fog Double Dry Hopped Double India Pale Ale with Spices, but never finished the review. So here I am doing that now!

Abomination does not have information on their beers on their website, but I can tell you that Gingerbread Fog has an alcohol content of 9.1% by volume and I paid $8.49 for my can from Half Time. Total Wine sells it for $22.99 a 4-pack in Brentwood, Tennessee, though they are currently out of stock. My can was stamped 23283, whatever that means. Perhaps canned on the 283^rd day of 2023?

Abomination Gingerbread Fog Double Dry Hopped Double India Pale Ale with Spices pours to a hazy yellow orange color with a thick rocky head and a nose of tropical papaya and citrusy grapefruit. Taking a sip the beer is light to medium in body, apropos to the style. It’s quite juicy and immediately pops with grapefruit and mango. That’s not all though, there’s spicy ginger here too, and while I am not really getting the gingerbread vibe, the spice I do get does work surprisingly well with the New England IPA elements.

Nutmeg, pine and ginger notes do make this festive at the very least, and I would definitely buy this beer again.

Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??