La Binchoise Biere des Ours

Brewed by Brasserie La Binchoise
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Binche, Belgium

A characterful honey beer with cool flavors, but find that it’s a bit heavy and cloying as the alcohol is detectable with no malt backbone to sustain it.

Tropical fruit aroma with an unmalted barley juiciness. Looks and smells like an unspicy wit, with a dusting of coriander. Some freshly polished table wafting out of the tulip as it warms. Pale haze and fine white suds. The honey imparts a creamy mouthfeel but not the cloying sweetness associated with some other beers of this style. A faintly piney hop presence offsets the honey, which I wouldn’t have identified without reading the label. Soapy smoothness and a chew of grass. Dangerously sippable strong ale with a fruity blend of yeast, spice and hops.

(Bottle, BB 28/08/08) Pours a cloudy yellow body with a medium-sized white head and descent lacing. Aroma of clove, coriander, honey, grass, floral, and mustiness. Flavor of crystallized honey, coriander, and light citrus.

Bottle. Hazy gold with a white head. Aromas are mellow lemon with sweet buttery malts. Alcohol is evident. Flavours are sweet honey with hints of lemon. Some spices with more sweetness on the finish.

Bottle. Unclear golden colour with a nice white head. Aroma of malt and honey. Nice strong flavour of honey, sweetness, and some alcohol. Ends up quite sweet.

cloudy yellow with carbonation body with a disseperendwhite head a yeasty spicy aroma a sweet taste and a sweet light alcoholic finich

Hazy blond coloured beer with average carbonation and a small white head and some small yeast particels. Yeasty spicy sweet aroma with some honey touches. Full palate. Finish is bitter sweet, alcoholic hints. Special beer.

Bottle. [Courtesy of Storm] Average frothy white head that mostly diminished. Cloudy body with light particles in flow. Golden color. Aroma of caramel, grain, Belgian yeast, citrus, clove, coriander and lots of honey. Medium bodied with a sticky texture and an average carbonation. Moderated sweet honey flavor with light bitter and acidic notes. Sweet honey finish.