La Binchoise Biere des Ours

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

The aroma is very spicy with a very suprising note of peppermint, but also coriander and blooming flowers on a spring day. The color is dark golden with slight yeast sediments floating around and a beutiful but collapsing white head. The flavor is very sweet - too sweet for my liking - with notes of spices and flowers to start off with but then turning into a strong honey taste towards the end. The very last impression of the aftertaste is still honey - in the shape of the sticky feel in Your mouth, that honey gives. It is the honey that makes this beer too sweet for me - I'd have liked it better if more of the sugar from the honey had been fermented.

(Bottle 75 cl) Comes as "Berenbier" in this version. Hazy, orangey golden with a decent and rather dense head. Lightly perfumy flavours and a bit sticky. Light bitter finish. A nice, complex strong lager if not exactly the most sophisticated honey beer. 310398

Bottled at Loch Ness, Stockholm. Cloudy deep golden, rich head. Aroma of honey and vegetables. Sweet with restrained fruitiness and rounded mouthfeel. Near full bodied. Honey dominates the flavour, accompanied by warming alcohol and pilsnerish malt. Absolutely no bitterness.

From 33 cL bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a lot of sediments floatin around and a white head. Aroma of honey and slight yeasty. Sweet and slight sour/bitter honey flavoured. Honey finish.

Bottle @ home.
Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate yeasty, moderate honey. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. (Bbitternes is strange ala sour malt / honey bitter). Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (120508)

Bottle. Vegetable aroma. Golden colour, small white head. Tastes like any average blonde with some vegetable and a very small hint of honey. Not spicy and a little boring. Get a bit more flavourful and cloudier toward the bottom of the bottle.

Bottled. Hazy yellowish orange colour with mediumsized white head. Aroma is fruits, flowers, wood and some mild sweetness. I can’t say I find any honey in the aroma. Some mild herbs/spices. Flavour is quite sweet malts along with some mild notes of honey and fruits. Also some mild earthyness in it. Aftertaste is fruity, nectary and some slight earthyness. Wellbalanced brew, which hides the alcohol well.

Bottled. Hazy yellow coloured with a white head. Aroma of honey, spices and fruit. Sweet flavour of honey, dried fruits and spices.