Bison Organic Honey Basil

Brewed by Bison Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Berkeley, California USA

Very crisp, refreshing from the bottle. Decent head. Enough honey taste on the tongue, with enjoyable basil aroma (not too strong). Didn’t think I would like it, but Bison proved me wrong.

What an incredibly interesting and refreshing beer that I thought was about as unique as anything I’ve tried. Basil in a beer? Suprisingly it works really, really well. Aroma is sweet, like a dark honey, and very strong in fresh basil that starts things off on the right foot. Imagine picking a fresh sprig of basil from the grocery store and you will get the idea. Mouthfeel is surpisingly soft. Basil flavors mingle really well with the honey and malt profile. No aftertaste, no bittering bite. Just a smooth summer ale that I thought was incredible. Will buy again!

22 oz bomber. Pours to a slightly hazy, deep golden color, with a tall, white head, and a good carbonation. The nose on this beer is fantastic. Aromas of sweet malt, honey, and light herbal aromas of basil flood the nose. The palate is firm with good pale malt flavors, with a nice back drop of honey sweeetness. This beer finishes with good pale malt flavor and hints of basil up front, then ends with light honey sweetness that lingers. Very tasty, very interesting beer. The combination of basil and honey really works in this beer, and makes for a very enjoyable beer.

A nice refreshing ale. The honey brings a light honey aroma and a wonderfully dry finish to this ale. The hops are well balanced with the malt sweetness allowing the slight bitterness from the basil to shine through.

orange brown and thick white head lemon hay and basil on aroma med light carbonation. tastes of honeyed lemon grain slight carmel and malt. spiced basil is pronounced and unbelievable, unique and refreshing well balanced and a definite try atleast once, for 3.50 for 22 oz makes it a great buy for such a original beer

I wouldn’t have said basil on the nose, more like rosemary, but I guess I’d be wrong. Mild clover honey. Clear bronze, lively carbonation. Clean and sweet, tempered with the herb. Kind of a one-two punch, not crazy complex, but very complimentary flavors.

From the 220z bottle, in what might be one of the strangest adjunct beers i’ve heard of. This thing was quite a trip, although, since I love pesto I actually really enjoyed this beer. Nice basil nose, sweet and herbal. Taste was a caramel and honey melody with a basil finish. Very crisp brew that would pair well with some pesto pasta.

aroma is floral sage, sweet grass, spicy lemon, copper body with no head, flavor is extremely spiced, coriander, body is much thicker and heartier than expected, tastes much like a christmas ale or pumpkin beer, very spice dominate, but there is some nice complexity to the spices, a good balance o often over represented flavors in this sort of style, a good cool weather fall beer in my opinion, its going well with the time and place as I’m sipping it now on a cold october evening, foggy day in Berkeley