La Brabançonne Blonde au Miel

Brewed by Brasserie du Brabant
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Genappe - Baisy-Thy, Belgium

Delirium Cafe Hazy pale golden ale with a large and rather dense white head that leaves no lacing. Citrusy, honeyed, almondy nose. A growing sourness is the main feature of the flavour profile that shows its honey highly attenuated. Dry and sour through and through with a generally spicy yeastiness accompanying the taster until the very end. Long floral and mineral finish with moderate bitterness. A well executed brew that I would probably prefer if 2% lighter, but it sure drinks easily for 2%.

Golden color. Honey aroma and flavor with a touch of mandarin. A bit alcoholic, but well balanced, not even a bit of sweetness, so very well attenuated. Very light bitter aftertaste.

(Bottled, 0.75l) Opaque golden color with smallish head. Slightly sour, honeyish aroma with some strange, toilet-freshener-compost hints. Sweetish honey flavor. Medium-bodied, quite thick, low-carbonated palate. A quite decent brew, but the aroma was not so pleasant.

Quite hazy (like very fine yeast in suspension), very pale yellow (as pineapple juice) beer; huge, light-yellow head, creamy in consistency, quite stable and leaving some lace. Spring flowers nose, honey, spicey - couldn’t be more Walloon farmyard nose. Bit of citrus as well. Surprisingly bitter taste, more spicey bitterness than hoppy, even a tad harsh. Again flowery-spicey. Honey might leave some flavour, but absolutely no sweetness. Finish betrays slight acidity. Not really light bodied. This beer seems extremely well-attenuated, but the malts/honey left some imprint! A surprising, and interesting brew. I’ve seldom had such a well attenuated honeybeer. I fear, however, that the used hops are very British-Belgian, meaning not very noble. if they could better this, it would become really great. BTW, if all commercial descriptions would be that accurate!