Young's Waggledance (Bottle)

Available filtered and pasteurised in 500ml bottles.

Production moved from Youngs to Wells & Youngs in 2007. Brand acquired solely by Charles Wells in 2011.

Unusual name, unusual beer. The Waggle Dance is a movement a bee performs to alert the hive of a source of nectar.
Waggle Dance is brewed with a touch of honey which gives it a taste of summer no matter when you raise a glass. This is balanced by a healthy does of hops to provide the bitterness that gives a wonderfully delictae flavour. The overall result is beautifully balanced and sneakily seductive.
Pale ale and crystal malt, Fuggle and Golding hops together with South American honey create this delicious golden ale with a superb honey aroma.

2.8

298 reviews

Bedford, England

Community reviews

2.8 Small white creamy head, mostly diminishing. Clear and flat appearance with an amber honey hue. Light aroma of dough... and honey (shock!). Heavy sweet flavour, finishing with bitter hops. Creamy and soft palate, slight metallic finish. Honey doesn’t seem to blend into the beer, seems... separate. Nice name (shrugs).

2.7 Clear amber with tiny off white head. Mild hoppy aroma with fruity notes. Sweet fruity flavor with caramel and mild hoppy notes. Ends mild bitter.

2.9 50 cL clear bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a slowly collapsing and light orange head. Aroma is light hoppy with a minor citrus fruity note. Flavours is in the same direction with a light citrusfruity note to a solid hops flavour. Mild malt base beneath with mild breadish note. Ends light hoppy with a mild citrus fruity twist.

2.7 500ml bottle. very disappointing in comparison to the cask. Malty, with a whiff of honey. By far not as cloying as other honey beers. Quite delicately bitter but overly fizzy.

2.9 The only "honey" beer I’ve found drinkable so far... mainly because it does not have the cloying honey taste of the dodgy Oz honey beers (Beez Neez, etc). Orange colour and alot of bitterness at the end. Not bad as a stand alone.

2.5 Big fluffy head on pouring; looks the goods but is short lived. Stale malts on the nose which are really quite lager-like, and just a sliver of honey / fruit. Fairly tame and simple to taste with more real drive from malts and hops, or honey for that matter. A strange sweet malt flavour comes through late, like cheap sugar. Not particularly attractive but not a total disaster.

2.8 Bottle (500ml). Poured a bright orange with a average size frothy head which was mostly lasting. Aroma was of citrus hops, marmalade, some malts, butterscotch and light caramel. Flavor was sweetish, with some honey, marmalade, orange citrus, mild toffee and a light hop bitterness. Light bodied with soft carbonation, a watery texture, slight oily mouthfeel and a short finish.

2.2 No froth. It was like wax. Little honey, delicate bitter aftertaste, but the overall taste was undistinguishable, like some bad fruit with a drop of honey, not refreshing and too much honey in it, making it too strongly one dimentional as for a Blond Ale for me.

2.5 This was a slight hazy gold colour,med carb,aroma seemed all honey and flavour bitter sweet,honey and good bitter,but too much honey flavour for me.

2.5 Delicate honey and hops on opening. Quickly dissipating head. Not overly sweet, but synthetic on the tongue. Dull.

2.9 500ml bottle. Clear gold with little head or carbonation. Aroma and taste are both a combination of honey and malt - it feels like this is an evolution of Youngs ordinary. Nice, but the cask is better.

2.6 An orange beer with a fine off-white head. The aroma is a mix of fruits and honey. The flavours are slighty sweet and there’s very little bitterness to be found. Light bodied and mediocre.

1.9 9-28-07 bottle. Cloudy thick amber color. Quick crappy head. Malty boring and metallic aroma. Very bland. It tastes like malty metal and gauze - it tastes sour - not very enjoyable at all.

1.9 This bottle is well past "best by" date, so perhaps not the most accurate rating coming up...Medium orange colored pour with a medium white head. Smell is malt, rust and metal. Taste is quite smooth and bland. Light honey and metallic flavors still, and this beer is surely not fresh. Still, I can tell this wouldn’t be an offensive beer, but rather a simple one.

2.7 Bottle. This was way too sweet for me. Orange coloured with a slight white head. Big, sweet honey aroma. Flavour was of rather synthetic honey - a bit like a crunchie bar. Not for me.

2.5 Cask. Pours a golden color with a puffy white head. Aroma is largely malt and honey. Taste is the same, as this is much sweeter than many other English ales. Not great, but not bad either.

2.8 Name: Waggledance Date: 11/24/2003 Mode: Bottle Source: Murfreesboro clear amber, lots of carbonation, nice fine white head, sweet honey aroma, lots of sweet honey flavor well balanced with a nice mild bitterness, Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20 Rating: 2.8/5.0 Score: **/4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

2.2 Bottle. High white and lasting fluffy head. Apricot coloured slightly hazy body. Fruity and lightly hopped aroma. Spicy and fruity flavor but without much hops bitterness. Almost no carbonation and a short sweet aftertaste. A bit watery

2.5 Bottle, Cellabrations, Bull Creek, Perth faint honey on the nose, Cloudy blonde appearance, Rather bitter for a honey blonde...

2.4 Amber-Orange colour, small frothy head, light-sweet aroma, very very slight honey flavour with hints of malt and hops, not a bad beer, drinkable

3.4 Beige head on a golden body. The honey is very well combines in this beer, and this makes it quite drinkable. A real pleasure to drink on a hot day!

3.2 Fruity esters and a touch of honey sweetness in the nose along with grassy and floral hops. Hazy, dark, golden-amber coloured body is topped by a low but lasting off white head. Pleasantly light and balanced golden ale with some honey sweetness, balanced fruity esters and light bitterness. Refreshing if simple. Light body with decent carbonation. Bottle (sampled Sep-06, Bièropholie, Jul-06).

2.0 Notes from 04 bottle. Dont care for fuggles and honey beers, so why did I buy this? A little too sweet and musty for me in aroma and taste.

3.1 Bottle from Tescos in Whitstable. I thought this would be a honey-dominated beer like Fullers’ Honeydew, but there’s a nice hop balance in this beer, and the honey, although there, doesn’t overpower. Unfortunately it’s not enough to lift this from anything other than a rather pleasant light ale that I suspect would pair well with spicy Thai dishes.

2.8 Bottle. Clear orange coloured with a white ehad. Aroma of malts, caramel, hops and ash tray. Fruity flavour of malts, caramel and hops.

2.6 Bottle @ Copenhagen Øl Festival. Small beige fizzy head that mostly diminished. Spar lacing. Clear flat pale golden colour. Aroma of hay, grain, fruity, grass and somewhat ashtray. Light to medium bodied with an average carbonation. Bitter floral flavour with some fruity sweetness. Somewhat dry and bitter finish.

2.6 Bottled (thanks chris_o). Hazy orangeish amber colour with mediumsized white head. Aroma is some skunkier hops with some pleasant fruity hints. Flavour is malty, hoppy with bitteralmondy and nutty hints. Slight sweetness pops up in the finish. No big winner, but still drinkable.

2.9 Bottled (BB 10/2007) A bit hazy orange, amber color, small white head, some lace. Nutty/woody hoppy aroma. Light palate, in the start crisp mouthfeel, some honey notes and pale malty flavours. Nutty hoppyness.

3.1 Amber coloured , malt aroma, with a malt flavoue with honey undertones, leading to a bitter honey finish.

2.7 Golden with a nice head. The aroma is sweetish with weak notes of honey. The flavour is refreshing and sweetish and the honey notes gives it a nice and smooth body. The bitterness is right for this beer, that’s easy to drink, pretty ordinary and perhaps a bit too sweet.