Barbar Belgian Honey Ale

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

Beautiful golden color and creamy head. Sweet aroma, a bit floreal more than honeyish. Good taste (some malt, hop, candi). Not exceptional, but pleasant. Filtered?!?

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Clear golden colour with large frothy white head. Aroma is honey and fruits. Taste is honey, malts and some spice with a dry finish. Pretty nice.

Real nice. Good honey-beer. This honey goes good with the beer. Yellow, medium head, aroma mostly honey, the same goes for the flavor.

Golden and hazy with a thick white head. Sweet honey aroma with slightly perfumy nose. Bready malt flavours, nice honey undertone with an ok finish.

Good yellow-white head; straw to copperish coloured, well-carbonated. Initially rather oppressive sweet-spicey smell, vanilla-like, then turning into mead-like nose, again spicey; also freshly-baked bread. Rather bitterish burnt-toasted taste, overlying lots of sweet malts. Burnt/toasted taste stays around until the finish. I get some spicey impressions, but no honey - maybe just a bit flowery. Medium bodied, carbonation is detectable in the MF. At least there’s a streak of originality in it, wherefor I give it its due. It’s just not my preference, however.

Pours deep gold with a medium sized white head. Appley aroma. Bread, clovery honey. Some spice with a dry finish. Simpler than the bok.

330 ml bottle. Enjoyed on the way back from the Tamworth Festival and it’s the best beer of the day. Hazy off-orange, a smooth, restrained honey taste in contrast to other honey beers I’’ve tried, has a rounded spicy taste in the finish with a mild bitterness.

Honey is used for this beer, but it is not sweet. It is in fact rather bitter, but balanced. Very good with meat I found. The name "Barbarian", I guess, is supposed to refer to ancient warrior drinks (mead ?). The label calls it "the waarior’s rest" . A nice e*xperience altogether.