Golden colour with fluffy head. Aroma and flavour have a lot of floral notes. Well balanced and sessionable.

6 June 2019. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Cheers to Ghent beer crew! Pours hazy red with a lasting, very thin, foamy, pink head. Aroma of raspberry, redcurrant, blueberry, unripe strawberry, wheat, sourdough, fruity yoghurt. Taste is light fruity sweet, restrained (unripe) strawberry & raspberry revolving around a sour core of blueberries, blackcurrant, quite wheaty & a bit lemony, with bitter touches of the fruits' seeds, all supported by a yoghurty character. Dryish, tart, fruity finish, berries all over, lingering wheat, yoghurt & a retronasal whiff of bread. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. This feels very fresh & natural; I'd say Brouwbar has proved they can have a go at any style.

6 June 2019. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Cheers to Ghent beer crew! Pours hazy orange with a lasting, thin, unstable, foamy, white head. Aroma of banana peel, ripe apple, white bread, artisan honey, beeswax, canned pineapple, perfume, faint pepper. Taste is light, almost medium, fruity sweet, notes of ripe apple, apricot & estery banana on a solid honey-like & bready malty base, vague sourish lemony undertone. An accent of pepper develops into a dryish, peppery hoppy finish where the artisan honey lingers, as well as bread, some esters & a mead-like aspect. Medium body, slick-oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Brouwbar manages to use honey in a prominent yet subtle way here, but this is not their best achievement.

6 June 2019. At Brouwbar, Ghent. Cheers to Ghent beer crew! Pours clear pale golden with a lasting, thick, foamy, white head; lots of lacing. Aroma of fresh & ripe mango, orange juice, yellow grapefruit, lime, honey, passionfruit, white peach. Taste is light to medium fruity sweet, notes of rather young mango & orange with a sourish undertone of lime & passionfruit, a bready character links this to a bitter core of yellow grapefruit, mandarin peel & grass, even a tad more bitter in the dry, earthy hoppy finish where grass & fruit rinds linger. Medium body, creamy texture, fizzy carbonation. Another well-executed, quenching, aromatic & actually quite accessible Session IPA.

After a preliminary unspecified session ale (SA12), Brouwbar has created different session IPAs, each time to the same basic recipe but differently hopped; this is the latest one, with Citra, Simcoe and Chinook. Egg-white, thick and dense, mousy, stable, irregularly edged head, hazy apricot blonde robe with warmer pale orangey tinge. Aroma of fresh mandarin peel, lemon butter, lychee, orange blossom, lime juice, grapefruit peel, minerals, white bread slices. Very cleanly fruity, straightforward onset, hints of green banana and some red apple, touch orange, fizzy and very minerally carbonation, slick and smooth mouthfeel, feeling fuller than it it actually (physically) is. Smooth cereally malt body, aromatically hoppy finish, bit citric and very lightly powdery, with a refreshing zestiness and light tropical lychee aspects to it, as well as something grassy; actual hop bitterness, however, remains very soft, actually a bit too soft for me, especially considering the used hop varieties which are old favorites. Very delicate and very refreshing, this will doubtlessly serve its purpose on Brouwbar's outside premises during the summery days to come, but I personally prefer the previous one (SI25) for being a bit less restrained in its hop character, especially in terms of sheer bitterness which could have lended even more body to the finish.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Brouwbar BIJ29 Honey Ale (by Brouwbar):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

21/VI/19 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-866)

Clear gold blond beer, small creamy white head, pretty stable, little adhesive. Aroma: pretty metallic, floral, bit fruity, some banana, spicy touch, some overripe fruits, yeast. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: surprisingly sourish start, lots of yeast, soft bitterness, ripe banana. Aftertaste: soft honey notes, lots of yeast, little sugary, citrus touch, more bitterness, quite some ripe banana.