Milwaukee Ale House Double Honey Ale

Clear amber body. Dry grass, some honey in the aroma. The flavor has an interesting mix of dry grass, green pepper, pollen, and a dry toasty pale malt base. Finishes fruity dry with a lasting grass note. This could have been more interesting w/ some orange blossom honey. This rating is from early 2007.

On tap. Pours to a hazy caramel colored body. The aroma was sweet honey and corn flakes. Flavor was much the same as the aroma. Sweet. The palate was fizzy but moderately bodied. Had a lingering sweetness and was only so-so.

Mostly translucent and copper-orange in color with a dense, khaki tan head retaining well. Aroma could spill either way – pillowy dough with orange blossom honey. Nectar-laden butterscotch and a touch of green lemon grass stems. Bakers bread ball with some marmalade sweetened oats. As the nose gives up, the flavor gets a crack at it, but doesn’t have a chance to register before the cool and harshly carbonated liquid ensues, sliding in with orangey crystallized ginger and orange toffee chews. Apricots and orange marmalade form the cohesive citric force while naturally scented dryer sheets get dipped in orange dream frozen custard (avec graham cones.) Medium-bodied with sweet, crystallized orange sugar cubes diffusing in the mouth. Dough innards get a vanilla-orange accent while the honey graham base fades out with neither pomp nor circumstance.