Great Divide Bee Sting Ale

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

Surprisingly "sweet." By that, I mean that in my experience, beers that claim to be made of this and that usually have very little of this and that, at least in the taste. This, however, is different. Not too sweet to not be enjoyed as a good session beer or at a Foghat concert.

Poured orangey amber with thin fading white head...smelled a little of honey, but also grassy...I agree with everyone else...this beer lacks a certain "Je ne sais quois"...not bad, but ultimately quite far from outstanding...grassy malty body, a little bitter...finish has the slightest hint of alcohol, but I was quite shocked to see 6.1% on this one...

Clear orange body with a small frothy head that fades. Grassy and herbal orange aroma. Fairly strong, albeit plain. Orange rind sweetened with honey and fresh cut grass touches that is almost (but not) astringently bitter. A bit watery and uninteresting. But good to try.

Honey/golden color,with ever-so-slight haze, under a perfunctory head. Aroma is sweet, and herbal at once, vegetal, pretty mild to the point of blase’. Taste is mild, sweet, and ultimately lifeless. Enters the palate meekly, feels rather coated with honey at first, then dulls out, despite a persistent fruity feel. Very ordinary, when all is said and done. Not bad, but not much, either.

Shouldn’t a beer made with honey taste a little like honey? I don’t taste honey at all. In fact this one isn’t sweet at all. Strange. Overall it’s a decent drinkable beer. Probably not something that I’d spend $ on unless it was teh only non-domestic option.

Hazy light amber with a medium frothy white head. Aroma of honey - lots of it, orange, lemon, toast, and flowers. Medium watery body with lively carbonation. Sweet flavor of honey, orange, toast, and a hint of grass. Very good for a honey ale, but still rather boring. Decent.

Bottle. Kinda cool looking pour for a chick beer; golden and a neat head. Smells like honey with a touch of skunkiness detectable. Something about this just doesn’t do it for me in the flavor; it tastes somewhat like babyfood and has an unpleasant fizzy characteristic that’s kind of hard to describe. Not nearly as good as some of GD’s other offerings.

12 oz bottle, snifter. Bread and cookie malt (L); flowery hops (L); dough yeast (L); pineapple and honey aromas. Small, frothy, fizzy, white head is quickly diminishing and sits on a light orange body. Lightly sweet, lightly acidic flavor becomes a lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter finish. Medium-light body, watery texture, average carbonation. The bottom line is: fairly plain, not any real faults, but nothing exciting.