Barbar Belgian Honey Ale

Brewed by Brasserie Lefebvre
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Rebecq-Quenast, Belgium

33 cl bottle @ Wombat Nice golden colour, white head. Sweet honey, fruits. I liked the warmth in this brew. Nice one.

33cl bottle, clear golden colour, medium and lasting white head, fruity and spices aroma with honey notes, sweet flavor, medium body, spiced finish with lots of honey aftertaste

Bottle, BB 1/17/09. Poured kind of a milky medium orange with a short cap of eggshell head. The aroma initially struck me as more of a sweet mead than a beer, with honey accented by floral notes.. ginger and coriander emerge with warmth.. dark, sweet, and intriguing. The flavor also picked up a lot of honey along with pale malts at the core.. peppery yeast laced throughout.. wheat and lemony tartness were quite enjoyable.. finished spicy and tart, but well-supported by the honey. Medium-bodied with low carbonation on the palate.. warm, different, and tasty.

pours clear pale gold with huge white fluffy head and enthusiastic bubbling carbonation. Arouma is pale malts citrus, and honey. Taste is similar, sweet but not too cloying with a bit of an alcohol and hop sting. noticeable but not overpowering spicy notes. Mouthfeel is smooth and light bodied. Nice!

(Draught at In De Wildeman, Amsterdam, 1 Aug 2009) Golden colour with frothy, white head. Malty, fruity nose with honey and citrus. Fruity, malty taste with notes of orange, honey and a touch of grass. More than medium body, rather sweet. Smooth and rounded mouthfeel. Rather nice actually.

660ml bottle brewed under license by brasseurs RJ. Slightly hazy gold pour. Aroma is spice bomb, yeast and insipid honey a sort of an empty shell sweet smell. Ouch taste is spice with well felt alcohol and a wee bit of sugar there is a bit of fruit towards the end that does sort of put it in with belgian strongs. I would have liked to know that this was a wheat ale maybe I wouldn’t have bought it.

I disliked this brew. The honey was inauspicious but certainly not hidden. The spicy crazy brew flavor was unexpected. The alcoholo was also very visible. I felt that the drinkability was poor on this brew.

No 799
Rated: 2006
Bottle brown, 330 ml
A regular amber, well saturated body with moderate to small, dense head and a good saturation, pleasant balance between the ale like sourness and natural honey sweetness. Good malty base and yeasty texture. Interesting eastery notes creating together with herbal spices a good Belgian Strong Ale. Again very natural in aroma as well as in flavour.