Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Honey beer developed by four friends (constituting the umpteenth would-be ‘brewery’ in this country – as these guys are not brewers but marketeers, using this project as their graduation project in management training); actually brewed by De Graal, with real honey. Thanks tderoeck for sharing. Thick and mousy, egg-white, stable head on a misty peach blonde beer. Aroma of indeed (sweet) honey, drying apple flesh, banana, cloves, soggy bread but also a very strong, obnoxious solventy effect (varnish, paint thinner). Fruity onset, sweetish with banana, pear and pineapple impressions, medium carbonated, soft bready malt base, supple with sweet honey (as from a jar from the supermarket) spread on top of it in a thick layer; spicy phenols and esters galore in the finish, as well as some late bitterness lasting only briefly, with that strong ‘paint thinner’-like solvent aspect returning retronasally. Something clearly got out of hand in the phenolic department here, and the honey addition feels artificial, rather than being fermented away and adding interesting flowery aromas as is the case with only the best of Belgian honey beers.