Schijndels Honingbier
Bierbrouwerij Sint-Servattumus

Got this bottle from the recent Ealing Broadway beerfestival in London. The best before date is March 06.

Appearance: slightly hazy, copper to reddish amber colour, with an off-white beerhead settling quickly to a thin layer of medium-sized bubbles above the beer.
Smell: refreshingly sweet and fruity aroma, like very ripe black cherry mixed with preserved fig, mixed with deeply sweetish honeyish and rock-sugary aroma. Overall it's a bit too sweet but not unpleasant.
Taste: very juicy and sweet malty taste upfront, buttressed by a rich, "stimulating" and dryish honeyish flavour, leaving a spicy mouthfeel in the finish; hop flavour is limited but provides a good, mildly bitter backbone and keeps the mouthfeel balanced and clean.
Mouthfeel & Drinkability: overall the mouthfeel is smooth, apart from the consistently spicy touch on the palate. A bit too one-dimensional though. Rich-flavoured and medium-bodied honey beer, this is a honey-accentuated rather than honey-dominated, pleasant strong pale ale.

Bottled dec 03. Not a great and lasting head but there for a while and mahony beercolor. Nose is very fruity, cherries in alcohol, orange/citrussy, honeysweetness, maltycaramellic and very fresh. As is taste that has good but not overdone sweetness, fruityness, litle roasty hazelnuts in caramellic maltyness and spicy alcoholic oaked. Wow good adchievement and well survived these 1.5 years in the bottle. Bitterness maybe suffered a litle but is not missed and still bit there. Aging makes mouthfeel very smooth but still robust enough and plesantly on your thong. Enjoyable honeybeer that I'll hopefully meet again soon.