Goose Island Honkers Ale

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company (AB-InBev)
Style: Bitter
Chicago, Illinois USA

Serve in English pint

29-01-12 Bouteille: Ambrée-orangée, limpide et claire, très légère effervescence et mousse abondante et épaisse qui disparait asser rapidement. Arômes fruitée et maltée avec des notes de farine et de fleurs. Légèrement sucrée, sans réelle amertume, bien balancé, fraiche et désaltérante. Crops léger avec une texture mince, mais avec une eptite rondeur en bouche. Carbonisation moyenne et finale maltée et asser courte. Bien gouteuse pour une bière à faible taux d’alcool et différente de la plénitude des big beers américaines.

Looks like a bitter - hazy copper with medium head and lacing. Light malty aroma that’s a tad metallic. Subtly bitter with good balanced finish. Not too dry and easy on the palate. The brewer should be commended for creating a traditional bitter when it is so tempting to Americanize old style with extra hops, spices and ABV. The result is a dangerously sessionable beer.

An old rating not much for notes but I bought a 6 pack and I enjoyed it. Amber, light bodied, easy on the hops, easy session beer.

A solid ale. Pours a nice hazy orange with about 2 finger worth of bubbly foam. The nose consists of a predominant honey aroma. On the palate some sweet honey with a slightly bitter pine cone after taste. Very drinkable and quite smooth.

From a bottle stamped 0927NH-OCT 18 11, which suggests it comes from their New Hampshire brewery. The pour is medium amber with a small, fading head and pretty good clarity. The aroma is rather muted with average malts and clean hops but overall rather subtle. The creamy body is about medium. The taste is pleasantly bitter, bready, and clean to the finish.

~Bready biscuity aroma with raisin like fruitiness. Low spicy hops. ~Pours a hazy light orange color with small creamy white head. ~Slightly bitter taste, spicy hop, light bready malts. Very non offensive. ~Med light body, med high CO2, Very dry, mild bitter finish. ~I really enjoyed the english fruity character in the aroma. The flavor is lacking. Still an enjoyable brew that I could drink plenty of. Probably be a little bitter at cellar temp and less C02.

Bottle; clear amber with small white head; aroma-spruce, caramel, citrus; taste-light sweetness, medium bitterness, medium body, thin feel, lively. Good. Not great.

Amber color. Slightly cloudy. Some bitterness, but altogether not very strong flavors. Hints of apple. Could have been more fullbodied.