1.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Bottle 500ml.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, sour malt notes, sugar, acrid honey. Flavor is moderate sweet and acrid honey bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20090813]
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled, pasteurised, 500ml from Morrisons, Banbury. Burnt gold with white head. A little on the sweet side, the honeyed notes seem to be stronger now than I remember. There is caramel from the pasteurisation, but not too badly done. Strange that this is marketed as a Wells beer now. Ah well.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle. Looks strong in the glass and is a deep honey colour with a solid white head that lingers. Zesty earthy araomas and a well balanced honey flavour. Dry finish and mild sweetness.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty slightly grassy honey aroma. Sweetish malty fruity honey flavor. Has a sweetish malty honey finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Sweet honey aroma. Amber with little head. Flavour is caramel, hops and very little honey. Rather bitter. Thin body. Finishes bitter caramel apple, if you can imagine such a combination. I’ve had better.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
50cl clear glass bottle, as shown. Pours a clean golden amber with almost no head and little lacing. Faint aroma of malt and, yes, some honey. Grainy, watery mouth feel, medium carbonation. Taste is also disappointingly bland, with only a whiff of honey in it, but mostly dry hops and malt. Medium bitter taste, not sweet at all(!), and a dry, mildly hoppy finish. The after taste has some honey-ish sweetness to it, but it’s all rather meek and mild. Of the honey-inflected English ales, Fuller’s Honey Dew communicates its raison d’etre far more convincingly. This brew is essentially a pale blonde, or rather, bland lager with honey as a weak afterthought. A major letdown after the same brewery’s excellent Special London Ale.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Clear yellow with an off-white head. Aroma of fruit and honey. Medium body, fruit, honey and a little sulphur. Lightly bitter finish. 130809
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle at Papsø.
Cloudy golden coloured with a medium sized white head.
Skunky aroma of caramel and fruits.
Sweet and skunky flavour of caramel with notes of hops.
Hoppy finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
50 cL clear bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is dry and slight spiced hoppy. Dry malty, spiced hoppy and bitter flavoured. Bitter and dry finish.
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
UPDATED: AUG 14, 2009 Cloudy golden with a medium white head. Aroma had Fruits, malt and caramel notes. Flavour was sweet with honey, malt and caramel notes. Finished sweet.
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