To Be, or Not To Be Golden Honey Ale
From The Ground Brewery
- From:
- From The Ground Brewery
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Pale Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.92 | pDev: 5.87%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 31, 2022
- Added:
- Oct 26, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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To Be Or Not To Be Golden Honey Ale is a real crowd pleaser. 100% Migliorelli Barley. 100% Rhinebeck Hops. 100% Local Honey. These three ingredients are combined with a saison yeast which ferments it up to 8% ABV. It doesn’t quite drink like and 8% beer. Most of the honey sweetness ferments out, but the honey flavor is still there. It’s definitely worth a try, if there is a question.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by metter98 from New York
4.01/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.01/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
A: The beer is hazy whitish yellow in color. It poured with a narrow collar of white bubbles around the edge of the glass and a thin layer covering the remainder of the surface.
S: Light to moderate aromas of honey are present in the nose along with notes of green apples.
T: Like the smell, the taste has lots of flavors of honey with hints of green apples but there is only a slight amount of sweetness. No alcohol is perceptible.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: Compared to other honey ales, I found this to have a lot of honey aromas and flavors without the sweetness or alcohol that you would normally expect. It was very easy to drink.
Serving type: bottle
Jul 11, 2020S: Light to moderate aromas of honey are present in the nose along with notes of green apples.
T: Like the smell, the taste has lots of flavors of honey with hints of green apples but there is only a slight amount of sweetness. No alcohol is perceptible.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: Compared to other honey ales, I found this to have a lot of honey aromas and flavors without the sweetness or alcohol that you would normally expect. It was very easy to drink.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.26/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
From The Ground Brewery "To Be, or Not To Be Golden Honey Ale"
22 fl. oz. brown glass bottle, no apparent freshness or production dating
$10 from the brewery stand at the Union Square Greenmarket
Notes via stream of consciousness: First, this is from their website: "To Be Or Not To Be Golden Honey Ale is a real crowd pleaser. 100% Migliorelli Barley. 100% Rhinebeck Hops. 100% Local Honey. These three ingredients are combined with a saison yeast which ferments it up to 8% ABV. It doesn’t quite drink like and 8% beer. Most of the honey sweetness ferments out, but the honey flavor is still there. " It's poured a hazy yellow-gold body beneath a short head of bright white foam. The aroma clearly expresses honey over a grainy and sweet malt base, all of which is backed by Belgian yeast phenols. As is quite often the case, the taste basically mirrors the aroma. It's really nicely bready and honeyish, followed by some soft white pepper and plastic-like phenols from the yeast. It's not as dry as the website suggests but neither is it sweet. A touch of yeasty spiciness lingers in the finish along with what residual honeyish malt there is, and that helps to dry it. I'd say it's nicely balanced given that I've had other Belgian strong ales that have the same sweetness upfront, and to be honest I might be being fooled by the honey flavor making me think it's sweeter than it is. I will say that there's not a lot of bitterness there though, around 25 or so I'd guess. It's really quite charming, and I wonder what it might be like if I'd aged it for a bit longer (I've had it warm for about a month or so). In the mouth it's medium bodied and dextrinous leaning towards medium full. The carbonation is very fine-bubbled and gently effervescent leaving it with a gentle bristle on the tongue followed by a smooth and almost creamy finish. Kudos for bottle-conditioning it! Finally, the head held up fairly well, possibly stunted a bit by the 8% ABV, but it left some nice 'mountains' of lace rising from the surface all around the glass except for the side where I was drinking from which had long splashes of lace rising up - overall a very good appearance. As far as honey beers go this one is pretty solid. Occasionally I'll have one and you can barely note the honey prompting me to suggest that you might not even find it if you didn't already know it was there but that's not the case here. It's buckwheat honey, by the way. I've been pretty impressed by everything I've had from From The Ground but this one might be the best so far, or at least the most impressive. It's well worth trying if you can find it, and I'm going to have to make sure I have a back pack with me the next time I hit up the farmers market in Union Square. Review #6,761
Oct 26, 201922 fl. oz. brown glass bottle, no apparent freshness or production dating
$10 from the brewery stand at the Union Square Greenmarket
Notes via stream of consciousness: First, this is from their website: "To Be Or Not To Be Golden Honey Ale is a real crowd pleaser. 100% Migliorelli Barley. 100% Rhinebeck Hops. 100% Local Honey. These three ingredients are combined with a saison yeast which ferments it up to 8% ABV. It doesn’t quite drink like and 8% beer. Most of the honey sweetness ferments out, but the honey flavor is still there. " It's poured a hazy yellow-gold body beneath a short head of bright white foam. The aroma clearly expresses honey over a grainy and sweet malt base, all of which is backed by Belgian yeast phenols. As is quite often the case, the taste basically mirrors the aroma. It's really nicely bready and honeyish, followed by some soft white pepper and plastic-like phenols from the yeast. It's not as dry as the website suggests but neither is it sweet. A touch of yeasty spiciness lingers in the finish along with what residual honeyish malt there is, and that helps to dry it. I'd say it's nicely balanced given that I've had other Belgian strong ales that have the same sweetness upfront, and to be honest I might be being fooled by the honey flavor making me think it's sweeter than it is. I will say that there's not a lot of bitterness there though, around 25 or so I'd guess. It's really quite charming, and I wonder what it might be like if I'd aged it for a bit longer (I've had it warm for about a month or so). In the mouth it's medium bodied and dextrinous leaning towards medium full. The carbonation is very fine-bubbled and gently effervescent leaving it with a gentle bristle on the tongue followed by a smooth and almost creamy finish. Kudos for bottle-conditioning it! Finally, the head held up fairly well, possibly stunted a bit by the 8% ABV, but it left some nice 'mountains' of lace rising from the surface all around the glass except for the side where I was drinking from which had long splashes of lace rising up - overall a very good appearance. As far as honey beers go this one is pretty solid. Occasionally I'll have one and you can barely note the honey prompting me to suggest that you might not even find it if you didn't already know it was there but that's not the case here. It's buckwheat honey, by the way. I've been pretty impressed by everything I've had from From The Ground but this one might be the best so far, or at least the most impressive. It's well worth trying if you can find it, and I'm going to have to make sure I have a back pack with me the next time I hit up the farmers market in Union Square. Review #6,761
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