La Binchoise Biere des Ours

In short: A sugary fruity Belgian blonde ale. Bland.
How: Bottle 330ml. Not super fresh (exact age unknown) but fresh enough to be before expiration date.
The look: Cloudy dark blonde body with a lot of medium size particles. Very small white head
In long: Nose of typical run-of-the-mill sweet Belgian blonde ale with candy sugar and fruity yeast esters. The most dominant flavours are white sugar, banana puree and honey. We’re off to a bad start. Other flavours include biscuit malts, spiciness, lots of minerals, some kind of saltiness, lemon. Very yeasty. I love lively Belgian carbonation but here it is overdone and downright aggressive. Annoying mouthfeel. I don’t have much good to say about this beer yet but somehow I drank my bottle without complaining. Not good but drinkable. The beer is called The Bear’s Beer so I suspect it uses honey because bears like honey, those big scary animals that all have a thick fur coat but no anorak.

Brown bottle, 33 cl, best before 20/11/09, via Importations Privées Bièropholie, savoured on March 29 2009; eye: honey, hazy, suspended matter, good effervescence, white head that falls and turns into a tiny ring, no lacing; nose: yeast, slight spices, light citrusy, light honey, light perfumy; mouth: yeast, spices, honey, perfumy, finale in honey with presence of spices, medium body, rather carbonated, no bitterness, mildly sweet, slightly foamy texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 33 cl, meilleure avant 20/11/09, via Importations Privées Bièropholie, savourée le 29 mars 2009; œil : miel, voilée, matière en suspension, bonne effervescence, mousse blanche qui tombe et se transforme en un petit anneau, pas de dentelle; nez : levure, très léger épices, léger citrique, léger miel, léger parfumé; bouche : levure, épices, miel, léger parfumé, finale en miel avec présence d’épices, corps moyen, plutôt carbonatée, pas d’amertume, moyennement sucrée, texture légèrement mousseuse; en résumé : bien

330ml bottle, slight honey gold hue, with a big fluffy white head, but falls quickly. yeasty, spicy, bready dough, light toasty, cereal, honeyed pale malt nose, with a mild candyish lemon peel accent in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, bready dough, honey character, with some honeyish pale, biscuity malt flavors, with a hint of candi sugar, a mild candied lemon peel, flowery hop note, leading towards a light sweet honey, faint dry hoppy finish.

Bottle at ZBF 2009. Hazy golden "Duvel-type"brew with an dash of honey, and that will make my day good again.

Bottle: Poured a clear golden color ale with a super huge pure white foamy head with great retention and very good lacing. Aroma of sweet malt with a subtle peppery yeast. Taste is mix between some medium sweet Belgian malt with a slightly spicy yeast and some bready notes. Full body with great carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Well done if maybe lacking some character.

Dark gold with a big head made of huge bubbles. Pils-like aroma, with honey. Strong malt and light hops. Sweet honey-driven golden malt flavor, ok hops. Nice but not too special.

(33 cl bottle at Haket, Göteborg)
On October 8, 2008
BB 23/04/09
Hazy pale golden with visible particles color, nice white head. Sweet, fruity and alcohol scent. Sweet, phenolic, sugary taste. Sweet aftertaste. Moussy mouthfeel, low bitterness.

Bottle (33 cl) at Haket, Göteborg, Sweden, shared with gnoff. Golden with small yeast particles and large white head. Fruity and yeasty aroma with light notes of honey. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Slightly sweet initially, dry finish.