Great Divide Bee Sting Ale

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

if it’s not retired, it should be. weird aroma with a hint of honey but also a foreshadowing of the awful flavor to follow. very sour, astringent. just no good.

This beer bored me to tears. Not really worth describing it because it was just plain boring. I’m glad to see its retired

Nice honey coloured body with an orange glow and a thinnish off-white head. Better looking than I had expected. Aroma of honey (no surprise), apricots, peaches, malt and some sugars. Light-bodied; Very vegetable taste with some sweetness and more malty unpleasantness. Aftertaste still kicks with alcohol and vegetables. Overall, a pretty bad beer (as I had expected), but still worth a try. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased at Total Wine in McLean, Virginia on 19-December-2004.

Surprised to see that this is retired. Found lots of six packs in Springfield. Anyhoo, this poured dark amber, slightly cloudy, with a medium sized white head. Head falls to an uneven level. Very sweet and sugary aroma: honey, red grapes, and alcohol. Clover honey sweetness to the flavor, with biscuits and a wheaty graininess. Abrasive, medicinal finish. Sweetness seemed very uneven: cloying at times, artificial at others.

Light golden ale with a light honey aroma, and cloves. Hoped up honey ale, cardboardy and oxidized. Medium bodied. (July 31 at Indiana Microbrewers Festival)

intresting. a very sweet light beer. THe honey was a nice touch, but really not much to build a beer off of. Lite and drinkable

I used to take an herbal chewabvle vitamin of bee pollin. It was slightly objectionable laced with a honey taste that kept it from being too retched. This beer tastes just like it. It simply is not good. It sounds like a good idea but perhaps a honey wheat beer would be better. The ale (which itself is crisp and thick) just does not merge with the honey formula. It feels as if it is at war with itself. Don’t get it and it is NOT retired.

Bottle. Medium white head, sparse lacing, no visible carbonation, transparent, and a golden orange hue. Aroma was malty, honey and sweet. Sweet, malty and honey flavoring. Smooth and somewhat thin mouthfeel. Easy to drink, but unimpressed with this one.