t Smisje Honingbier

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

Pours clear orange with a medium white head. Moderate honey aroma with some hops. Tad bit of grapes. Taste is a nice combo of honey, hops, and malt with some fruit mixed in. Clean tasting and quite nice.

33cL bottle. Copper/orange color with slight haze. The head is large, fine and lacy. The aroma has some sourness, yeast, berry, & orange. The flavor is apple, tart (lactic), & some honey. It is quite carbonated & refreshing. The carbonation brings out the beautiful aroma and flavor. Great beer Johan!

Bottle. High fluffy and lasting off-white head. Hazy dark orange body looking as if it has a lheavy carbonation. Honey aroma of course but also caramel butter and hops plus a bit of spices. Promising. First impression of the flavor is that it is indeed dominated by a heavy carbonation. Apart from that the beer is characterised by fruity although a bit acidic notes with a fair amount of hops bitterness and some caramel to sweeten it. Long bittersweet aftertaste. What a pleasure !

Hazy orange; slim yellowish head, very stable. Nice - there's Brett in the nose (J.B. is going to die!); fruity (citrus, rosehips) and a touch of honey (because I know?). Very nice, aromatic & fruity nose, faint spices and garden fruit. Certain acidity, again fruity in character, very pleasing; not bitterish enough to be called tart. No honey detectable, I'm afraid. Medium bodied, acidity makes it light & refreshing. very pleasing beer - just still searching for that honey.

Plump honey and powerful spices in the aroma with a light vinous zing...That honey disappears though in the palate, buried under a cohesive heap of flower petals, orange zest and yeast...Sweet peachy malt in ample quantities makes for a hugely satisfying body and fruity acidity rushes up the palate but finishes sadly too fast...Herbal bitterness remains herald an interesting moment well-spent in yet another wild De Regenboog creation...

Bottle, 33 cl. Hazy orange-amber color, with medium white head. Aroma spices, malts, fruits. Medium body. Taste refreshing, fruits, malts, very little honey, yeasts. Finish malts and yeast.

Bottle. Cloudy, orangey amber with a medium head. Complex honey and floral yeast aroma. Sweet honey flavours which come out quite complex with a lot of spice character. Honey beer may not be my favourite style, but this beer goes beyond cloying sweetness. I would not mind another one.

Sticky and sweet.