t Smisje Honingbier

Brewed by Brouwerij De Regenboog
Style: Belgian Ale
Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium

The aroma is very faint but sweet malty. The color is a clear brown and it has a fine lazing head, though disappearing. At first the flavor is a little sour, but then it turns into sweet honey combined with malt and roasted bread. An OK beer.

(Bottle 33 cl) Dark golden beer with a fairly small, white head. If you fear a cloyingly sweet beer from the honey you’re dead wrong. Actually the bitter hops are much more accentuated than the sweetness. OK, but average. 110798

33 cL bottle. Pours clear golden orange with a lacing white head. light spiced and mild soapy aroma. Flavour is earthy, herbal and slight acidic. Goes into a light herbal finish. Strange and undefineable - but not unpleasant.

Bottled. Clear amber. Sweet and mead like with some white wine character and a hint of metal. Drier finish. Fairly pleasant, but I don’t really know what to make of it.

Bottle. Clear medium orange amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, moderate yeasty, light honey. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (050308)

Draught. Refreshing aroma. Very dark golden colour, creamy light head. Bonbon/caramel flavour with nice acidity. Hint of sweetness.

Bottled. Hazy nutbrown colour, mediumsized creamy beige head. Aroma is grass, yeast and very weak noes of honey. Flavour is is malts, yeast, some caramel and a bit hops. No honey in flavour at all. Long yeasty and grassy aftertaste.

Hazy orange colour with a fast disappearing off-white head. Aroma of malt and honey with notes of hops. Acidic malty flavour with notes of honey. The acidic notes is too dominating for my liking.