Holts Humdinger (Bottle)

Brewed by Joseph Holt
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Manchester, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle. Dark honey (apt!) with a very light haze - thick white head. There’s a lovely whiff of honey in the nose mixed in with citrus fruits and a light peach. In the mouth and it’s like someone has drizzled honey over a fruit cocktail and soaked it in bitter. Surprisingly yummy with a nice amount of carbonation to keep the flavour fizzing through the long palate.

Copper coloured ale with an amber glow. Doesn’t hold its head. Sweet tasting with notes of honey in its aroma. Has a slight biscuit malt flavour.

50 cl bottle.
Originally rated on 20100522.
Pours golden color with a small head. Aroma of hops, some fruits, grass and toffee notes. Flavor of hops, caramel, fruits and hay.

Pours dark honey with one finger frothy cream. Aroma of fermented honey Starts bitter grassy and hay malt with honey background that increased into full-fledged. After is laid back fruity hops.

50 cl bottle @ HBF. Rated on 21.05.2010
Aroma has honey, English hops and hints of hay. Flavour has somewhat artifical honey notes, hay, English hops, caramel and toffee. 10 cl of this stuff was definitely enough. It seeems that Joseph Holt is not one of my favourite breweries.

Bottle. Golden body. Thin white head. Honey, hops, aromatic, floral, black malt. Bittersweet. Dry finish.

Good, medium strong aroma has vanilla, honey, bit fruits, sweet and perfume like. Deep amber, thin head. Medium body, soft feel, sweet and quite long flavor. Interesting and quite tasty.

golden blonde with fluffy white head. grainy malt and a touch of lemon and spicy flowers. sweet in the mouth with a dry bitter finish.

It would seem every other brewery in the UK has a Honey beer, this is Holts attempt. My brown 500ml bottle had only two weeks to go before its best before date (23 June 2010). The beer was poured (chilled) into a vase shaped pint glass (badged, Old Speckled Hen). The body is a dull golden/amber in colour, a thin off-white head sat on top. Mexican aroma honey? Has been used according to the bottle label, I could just about sence hints of honey, along with some citrus hoppiness. The taste was bland and uninteresting, there is a slight presence of honey within the flavour and a mini hop bittereness to counter it. Sadly they just don’t blend too well, the malts come into the flavours towards the end of the mouthfeel. To be fair, everything grew in size (aroma and flavour) as the chillness eased off and the beer warmed, I enjoyed it a whole lot better during the second half of the review.

50cl bottle. Decent white head. Clear golden pour. Nice enough beer but I was expecting more.