Goose Island Honkers Ale

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

Serve in English pint

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12 oz bottle from a six pack bought at Super 1 in Rathdrum, ID. Bottled 2/1/13; almost four months old. Pours clear copper with a medium collapsing off-white head. Aroma is doughy, perfumy, fruity (berries)...smells pretty English. Taste is mostly sweet with a faintly dry bitter finish; fruity, English flavor. Thin bodied. Pretty boring.

Bottle sample at a tasting at Beer and Beyond store. Thanks Tom. Pours yellow to bronze with a small head, aroma of caramel, honey, butter cookies, flavor of caramel, dark bread, bizarre bitterness, medium bodied

Decent beer..enjoy the balance a good beer... found this at a hockey game once.., good sipping beer.

Pretty good, but now part of "And how’s her bush", so there is reason for skepticism about how this will all flesh-out. Watch how it will all of a sudden start hogging shelf space, now that AB owns it. It is all about shelf space and distributors in the liquor business.

Bottle sample at a tasting at Beer and Beyond store. Thanks Tom. Clear dark gold with white head. Sweet and a little malty aroma, mild bitterness in the mouth. Light body, abrupt finish, a little malty.

Okay aroma of classical english ales, biscuit appearence and a palate close to the english bitters. Malty taste which is heavy but delightfull.

12 ounce bottle from Fort Collins, CO was served chilled in a snifter. Appearance - Poured sparkling clear, dark amber in color, with a fine, creamy bone-colored head. The head had disappointing retention. Good lacing on the sides of the glass. Smell: About equal mix of malts and hops; A bit floral with hints of brown sugar.. Taste: Like a relatively bitter, earthy and hoppy amber ale: i.e., mildly bitter and true to style. Well balanced. A trace of ripe fruit. Mouthfeel: Near medium bodied, with good lively moderate carbonation. A bit crisp with a semi-dry finish. O: Flavorful, interesting and just 4.3% ABV, this is a good session ale.

A decent beer, but not up to the level of other Goose Island Brews. Pours a yellow orange with a white head. Smells and tastes like tropical fruit, but a little boring. Had at bottle rock in napa. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle: amber pour with medium-sized beige head. Aroma is slightly metallic with malt and bisquit notes. Flavor is sweet with malt and honey, with a mild grassy hop bitterness in the middle, and some bready tones throughout. Easy drinking with mild flavors, just a bit much on the malted flavor.

Aromas of nuts, caramel, and orange peel. Clear orange-amber with a small, fairly lasting, white head. Dry, bitter, nicely balanced with earthy hops and nutty malt flavors. Light-medium body, crisp carbonation, and with a clean finish.