2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Very flat golden beer with a very light aroma. The flavour is strongly bitter, caramel and honey with a very chemical tasting feel. Overall a very, very poor beer.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
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.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 9/20
50cl bottle.
Decent white head. Clear golden pour. Nice enough beer but I was expecting more.
2.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Not an unpleasant aroma, but it’s only very faint. Looks decent enough. I like the taste but there’s not a lot to it. Once it’s out of your mouth the taste is pretty much gone and it doesn’t leave much after it. The taste is nice but the fact that it dissipates so quickly makes it seem a bit bland.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Color is golden with a medium head. Aroma is honey, some malts and plum. Flavor is malts with a hint of honey. Light body. Nice beer!
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pours deep golden with a medium head. Aroma is honey, plum and malts. Flavor is malts with a hint of honey. Better than expected.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 10/20
4.1% gold with a thin head. slight honey aroma, bitter with just a hint of honey in the taste.
1.9 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Pour is flat tarnished gold. Smell is light malt and some sort of sweetness. Taste is watery honey Roasty malt.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
10/7/11. Bottle thanks to Trevor! Clear golden pour with basically no head. Faint aroma of caramel and grain. Sweet caramel flavor with a touch of honey, chlorine, salt, a bit of tartness, and tannic graininess. Blech.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pleasant enough but a bit dull. Copper-brown with a little honey on the nose, some fruit on the palate, and a slight and unexpected sourness on the finish.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Dry, slightly hoppy with a slight sweetness to it too, although this could be the honey
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