Chiller Honey Beer
Browary Warmińsko-Mazurskie Jurand Sp. Z O.o.

500ml bottle. "Chiller Honey beer" on the neck label, "Chiller piwo miodowe" on the main label. there's your Polish lesson for the day: "piwo" = "beer", "miodowe" = "honey"...there's almost no other English anywhere else on the label, (the importer has decided not to import this one, so only the Poles get to enjoy it), so I can't tell you what "doskonale polaczenie goryczy piwa i soldyczy miodu, ..." etc, etc, means, from the back label. Something about honey beer, I'd guess.

Hazy, golden colored, big, lasting white head.

Aroma is all about the honey, big, sticky, loud and proud. Sweet, sweet. Not far from the bee.

More so in the mouth. Bam! Thick and gooey, roundly honeyed, on top of a pale lager. Probably too much honey for most, like the overdone ginger in the Zingi Beer, but there's sure something to be said for going all the way with it!

Good drinkability, if you don't mind the powerful flavor. Plenty of folks are looking for a good measure of sweetness, or are searching for some extreme expression in their brew. Why not share it with us, Jurand?

To quote Krusty the Klown, "I don't mind the taste!"

Pours a pale gold in color with a small, uniform white head. Features an *extremely* pungent aroma of honey straight from the get-go, and it's a funky honeycomb taste all the way through . . . but for some reason that seems to work to this beer's advantage. I can tell by reading the label (my Polish ain't great, but I know extra sweeteners when I taste 'em : ) that there's added sugar in this brew, which seems to indicate that the brewery intentionaly made this beer as sweet as is, and by sweet I mean very, VERY sweet, the very epitome of the word "cloying." Again, for some reason this seems to work to this beer's advantage, at least initially, and while this is probably much too sweet for sessioning, I *can* see it working as a night-cap or dessert beer. Light in alcohol (3.7) and with very light, easy-going carbonation, which -when combined with its sweetness- makes this beer seem bigger bodied than it is. I'm giving this one an A for effort (primarily because this actually smells and tastes like fresh Honey) but a half Liter bottle is simply too much for me - it's probably sweet enough for two or three people! Also, there's a mild, liqueur-ish, medicial flavor lingering in the background here, which overall has the effect of reminding me of Krupnik and other honey-brandies (thankfully, I like these sort of beverages once in a while.) If the brewery could cut the sweetness by a third this one could make for a truly tasty dessert beer option.