Koning Honing
SNAB in Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.51
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SNAB uses the exotic Sicilian orange blossom and creamy Canadian clover honey for King Honey. To fully express the honey flavor, the honey is only added after the main fermentation. The delicate vanilla Bourbon de Madagascar completes the subtle honey tones. Balance in sweet and bitter gives a Special beer: taste and enjoy the King among the Honey beers ..
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark blond colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have strong honey notes. However it's not too sweet. Clean finish.
Tried
on 28 Sep 2017
at 13:30
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Hazy pale amber colour, tall frothy off-white head, half-way lasting, heavy lacing. Aroma sweet malts, honey, peach, biscuit, yeast, bit butter. Fizzy taste, medium sweet and bitter, malty, light honey, biscuit, candy sugar, yeast, spicy notes, alcoholic touch. Sweetbitter aftertaste, bit fruity, spicy notes, medium body, oily texture, lively carbonation, low on honey (blessing in disguise?) but quite a decent pale ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2017
at 12:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
opalescent orange to amber colour, huge, dense creamy yellowish-bright beige-ish off-white head; aroma of linden honey, biscuit, grape, candy sugar and grains; taste of linden honey, grape, biscuit, moderate bitterness of grape seed and candy sugar; enjoyable Belgian ale
Tried
from Can
on 05 Feb 2017
at 11:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
SNAB’s self-proclaimed "king of honey beers", bottle from a Deen supermarket. Medium thick, egg-white, moussy head leaving patches of lacing on the glass, colour a deep and warm, pure coppery amber, clear but turning light hazy in the end. Aroma of acacia honey indeed, quite dominant but leaving enough room for other suggestions of sandwiches, gingerbread, faint strawberry, grass, iron but in a natural way to the point where it becomes a bit rosehip-like, apple cake, orange liqueur, dry earth, soap, overripe red tomato, some dried kitchen herbs, red apple, jute, toasted bread and even a very weak hint of cooked cabbage (DMS) lurking somewhere in the background. Spritzy onset of canned apricot, raisin and banana sweetness plus a soft, background redcurrant sourishness, strongish carbo, very supple, slick and even slightly metallic caramelly and lightly nutty to even slightly toasted malt sweetness in the middle superseded by honey sweetness and subtle spicy hints, bitterish in the end with ongoing toasted malt bittersweetness, soft herbal hop bitterishness, some faint spicy phenols, warming liqueurish alcohol and, expectedly, honey sweetness, unmistakable yet still managing not to overpower all the rest, though it does stick to the throat a little bit; the toasted malt bitterishness and the hops try to counter this sweetness, but fail in the end. Belgian style sweet honey tripel, tasty but still a tad too sweet; I can, however, appreciate the fact that the people of SNAB have applied artisanal honey in this, but I think adding it in an earlier stage of brewing would have been a better idea. Too sweet still, to my palate at least; needs more body and more ’end bitterness’ to finish off the initial honey sweetness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2016
at 19:28
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours brown tea like color. Honey, spices, damp clay, yeast, rye bread. Taste is sugary sweet with very light earthy bitter throughout. Mouthfeel is oily and slick with fizzy carbo. Very nice for what it is.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2015
at 14:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared in London with Lyoli - sourced from Ales by Mail. Pours lightly hazy gold-brown with a creamy off-white head. The aroma holds toasty biscuits, bread, berries, Belgian yeast. Medium sweet flavor with plenty of bready malts, some toffee, banana, bubblegum, faint alcohol, toasted biscuits. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Lightly warming on the finish, some chewy malts, more bread and toffee, candi sugar, minimal bitterness. Not bad overall, although there’s minimal honey character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2015
at 15:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours clear amber, nose is honey, floral, caramel, taste is similar, quite sweet, rich.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2015
at 14:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at the Fiddler. Pours hazy amber with an off white head. Aroma of honey, fruits, yeast and sweet malt. Flavour is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter. Medium bodied with light moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2014
at 13:31