Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

Honey-flavoured strong blonde ale executed in the kettles of Dit Bier by an improvised client brewer apparently calling themselves Beste Maten. Thanks to Hinke for sharing at MJ Café at the Lelystad marina. The 16th beer in this range apparently. Snow white, open, large- and uneven-bubbled, irregular head, initially clear pure warm honeyed golden robe, misty with sediment. Aroma of old chewing gum, plaster, withering garden weeds, banana, leftover dough, clove, rubber, varnish, even band aid, grass. Sweet onset, banana ester, hints of pineapple and apple peel (acetaldehyde?), softly carbonated with slick, thinnish pale malt sweetish body, gathering effects of rubber, wet white paper and eventually even nail polish and band aid – instead of that herbaceous fragrance one ought to get in a honey beer. Some grassy hops, lingering banana ester and boozy, cheap wodka-like alcohol in a clearly badly structured finish. Way too solventy, unbalanced and feebly constructed, this Belgian style honey beer is one to avoid at all cost. It says enough that a fruit fly landed on the table, walked up to the glass, halted and shook its head, only to reverse course and fly off…