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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Bottle. Pours golden brown, kinda coppery, with very little head. Smells rich bread grains and citrusy sweet with some floral hops. Tastes grainy, like a good bread, sweet, citrusy, piney, and a little fruity. Aftertaste is bitter but smooth and dry. A very good beer.

Poured into a amber colored ale. Not very aromatic, thin head. Initial taste of well balanced malts and ended with a pleasant but not over powering bitter. Very good.

Very drinkable pale ale. Good balance of hops and malt that finishes with a creamy ending. Worth trying again.

Poured from bottle into Tulip. Burnished amber with small head, and only slight lacing. Overall flat look is expected for style. Aroma of sweet caramel malts, with slight citrus. Not nearly as sweet as the smell suggests. The malts are mostly dried out, slightly tea-like. Nice mild bitterness at the end. Overall, it is subdued but flavorful. Relatively low carbonation with moderate body and fairly dry finish. Nice smoothness overall. Very nice drinkability, and one of the better American made session beers.

UPDATED: NOV 6, 2010 Crisp, malty aroma...delicious, almost foamy mouth feel. Hops make you want to have another sip. Flavors of citrus and malts matched well with hops. Very drinkable. A very classy session beer.

This beer pours an attractive light copper with one finger of fluffy white head. Decent retention and mild lacing. The aroma is inviting with notes of light spice and warm toffee. The taste is very good. Biscuity sweet malt lay down a warm base and the floral hops lend some spice and complexity. The finish is sweet with some nice yeast flavors. Fairly complex for a smaller ale. The body is medium with moderate carbonation. A bit of fizz but mainly creamy. Very easy to drink. Overall I thought this was a very well done bitter. The beer has a nice complexity and invites you to take another sip. Very good stuff, cheers.

I was taken with this bitter-style beer as soon as I released it from its translucent brown limbo. The citrus and powerful hop aroma is something that I love, and something that this beer has in heaps, and is strong and seductive enough to excite you about the coming flavour. In tasting you will not be disappointed as the flavour of the hop is highlighted, with a medium bitterness. The texture is fairly thin but this allows for repeated enjoyment.

Very good beer. I like almost all the beers by goose island. Not a stout fan, so this is very yummy!

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.

Beer poured a slightly cloudy golden orange. Head was foamy and off-white. Wet-dog aroma with mild pine and biscuit. Funky sourness with very earthy flavors. Peat comes to mind. Not sweet. Acrid actually. Hops are prevalent and very dry. An aftertaste like celery! Medium-high carbonation - effervescent - with a dry finish. Medium-light in body. Texture fizzy. A wierd brew but I enjoyed it a lot.