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Update: Month and a half later and the beer isn't as bad as I had feared. The ginger did calm down some, but definitely needs some cutting back next time around. My beer snob friends agree it's a lot of ginger when you're pulling apart the flavors, but everyone who's been given one without a...

Thanks for the input, I'll taste again in a week with higher hopes than before :mug:

Went to secondary to make bottling easier out of the carboy w/o grabbing sediment, etc. The ginger was actually a fairly small amount mixed with vanilla, of which only a small pinch was added. I added the ginger because I like ginger, so that seemed reason enough to try it out as part of a...

Tasted a sample of my sort-of-allagash-white clone when switching from primary to secondary and there's a STRONG ginger taste (almost soapy) when I was hoping for more of the bitter orange peel and vanilla to come through. Any ideas to counter the ginger, or at least an amount of orange/vanilla...

Well, how does it taste?