2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20 TomDecapolis (4006) - Skippack, USA - FEB 23, 2006
Thanks to weeare138. Pours a hazy golden with a small bubbly white head. Aroma of honey and a bit old and musty. Some yeast, caramel and butter as well. Flavor was lots more of the honey with not much else. Sweet and watery.
1.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20 Shaney (133) - Köln, GERMANY - MAY 24, 2012
#1274
Boah, was ist das denn? Ein übles Aroma nach ranzigem Honig, überhaupt nicht lecker! Dazu verschwindet der Schaum in Nullkommanix; macht schnell nen abgestandenen Eindruck. Es schmeckt leider auch nicht dolle; wieder nach Honig der Marke Igitt gepaart mit etwas Hefe. Nee, das kann ich nicht austrinken. Nicht mein Bier!
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20 corkyrory66 (56) - BELGIUM - MAY 22, 2012
Une bière qui occupe une niche particulière, très spécifique et qui justifie
un intérêt certain pour sa composition.
Elle est faite de différents houblons et de miel, avec une refermentation
en bouteille. Elle titre maintenant à 8,5 abv.
Elle est artisanale et revendique une antériorité à 1836 dans la tradition.
Sa couleur est un blond très clair, quasi jaune paille, limite d’une blanche, et même, nous le verrons dans la suite au niveau du goût.
La clarté évoque un très léger trouble.
Les bulles sont hyperactives, par milliers partout dans le verre...
La mousse est blanche, très crémeuse et elle tient bien la distance...
L’odeur est de blé, de céréales et de houblon frais.
Le volume de la 1ère gorgée est soyeux et lisse.
Le 1er goût est une très belle entrée sur le houblon et les céréales, avec
une pointe de miel mais assez lointaine, pas du tout dominante.
Le 2ème est un beau fondu blé mur, houblon et fleur blanche.
Le 3ème est un fondu extraordinaire sur le thème de l’hydromel avec une
pointe de trèfle très longue et une finesse superbe.
La longueur va sur l’aubépine, la camomille et l’orge jeune.
La levure est douce, fine, comme celle d’une blanche.
La finale est l’exact milieu entre une belle blanche et une bière épicée.
Cette bière occupe donc une niche spécifique. Elle n’est pas du tout faite
pour les ours, parce qu’elle n’est pas sucrée... mais elle est très fine,
belle, vivante et surtout très originale.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20 BelgaBart (51) - Antwerpen, BELGIUM, BELGIUM - MAY 20, 2012
I have got this one already twice @ Kulminator in Antwerp. I don’t know correct, but on the dust to see, it kinda looks vintage. It’s one of the better honey beers, there are kinda flowties in the beer. But, the taste is very indepet, texture kinda bready, no head. But it givis a feeling like a congac or something like that, the beer isn’t sweet @ all. Maybe this is the review of a vintage bottles, but it’s very good.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 Benzai (2723) - Oirschot, NETHERLANDS - MAY 4, 2012
33cl bottle @ home shared with Thompson. Hazy yellow color, average sized, quickly vanishing, slightly lacing white to off-white head. Smell malts, some fruits and a slight hint of sour. Taste malts, slight fruitpeel-bitterness, again a hint of sourness. A bit fizzy carbo, low to medium body.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20 Thompson (53) - - MAY 4, 2012
White head good size, but gone rapidly. hazy yellow colour. no visible carbo but cefficiently present in taste. Somewhat oderless smell. taste is somewhat bland. Overall not that good, would not buy again. drank at the benzai’s lair
2.3 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20 BlackHaddock (1709) - Shropshire, ENGLAND - APR 11, 2012
Dumpy 33cl brown bottle, best before19 Nov 2011: poured slowly into a Leffe badged chalice on 22 May 2011.
No sediment left the bottle, so the beer was a pale amber colour, almost clear, but not quiet. A wispy white covering with a thicker collar appeared as I poured, the collar stayed, the rest left fairly swiftly.
Not a lot of smell coming from the beer, some summer fruits and floral notes, but not a lot of anything. I couldn’t find any honey in the aroma, but it does have strong hints of honey in the flavours once you start to drink the beer.
This is in a style that has some hit hitters (Duvel and La Chouffe, etc, etc.), so how does it stand up against such brews? The taste is honey sweet and very floral in it’s mouthfeel, less spicey than La Chouffe and not as effervescent as a Duvel.
I think the honey does the beer no favours at all, in fact it sweetens it too much in my eyes.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 imdownthepub (7494) - Banbury, Oxfordshire, ENGLAND - MAR 14, 2012
Bottled, 330ml from Hopduvel Warehouse, Ghent. Yellow gold with lots of sediment lumps, white gushy head. Quite tart and yeasty initially and then comes a thick, glutinous honey flavour. The honey does taste fresh rather than caramalised as many beers are, but it is heavy. Not much more can be tasted after that. Not really my type of beer.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 Acid303 (79) - Barcelona, SPAIN - FEB 26, 2012
Not bad, although I prefer the Asturian version: L’Esbardu. I recommend to try the mentioned one, it’s a slight improve IMO.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20 deusax (366) - Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND - FEB 22, 2012
Transfering data from personal beer file. I drank this beer a long time ago. I’ll update this rating if I have the chance to drink it again.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 blankboy (4454) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - FEB 10, 2012
Bottle [11.2oz] shared with garthicus & HogTownHarry -- c/o HogTownHarry. Dec. 13, 2011. Pours a murky honey-copper with millions of tiny sediments and a spare diminishing fizzy off-white head. Aroma of honey and cloves first followed by alcohol, yeast and fruit (banana and more). Somewhat watery flavour of honey, yeast, spices and some fruit. Short finish. Average bodied. A fine but mediocre beer.
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