Fullers Honey Dew with Cranberry

Formerly brewed at Fullers
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
London, England

Nose gives honey and honey again. First tasting impression: very watery, thinnish. Only a bit honey retronasal, no real sweetness. There is some fruitiness at the side of the tongue - could as well be passionfruit as cranberry as anything else - but the fruitiness gets more obvious after a few sips. Some floral bitterness (low-alpha’s?). Could do better.

Amber beer which has a solid English pale ale appearance. The aroma is very light and one of fresh fruits. The flavour has a watery bitterness about it with the tart aftertaste of cranberry that is ever present. Overall a very drinkable beer, an improvement on the original but slightly a poppish.

sweet ale-perhaps fullers attempt to penetrate the alcopop market. the cranberry flavors give this a tart cidery taste. loese the balance the rtegukar honey dew has.

Bottled. Amber colour, moderate head and condition. Low fruity malt nose with barest hint of hops. More fruitiness in the mouth and a dry fruity tartness in the finish. The original Honey Dew was insipid and the addition of cranberry does little to improve it.

Simular to the regular Organic Honey Dew, only a bit drier and not as sweet. The cranberry flavours don’t stand out.

The proper title of this beer, according to the label, is ’Organic Honey Dew with a twist of Cranberry’. :-) Like cranberries generally, its impact is far more in what it does to your mouth and face than what it adds to flavor. You get a distinctively sweet beer (thanks, too, to the honey) but most of all you get a sourness that pickles your mouth. Strong carbonation but not intrusive. Because the other flavors are muted to make way for the sweet/sour thing, this is more wine cooler than beer. But I like fruit beers, so it isn’t too bad.