Buckerfields Smooth Sailing Honey Ale

Brewed by Swans Hotel (Buckerfield Brewery)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Victoria, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Golden-amber colour. Honeyish, light bready malt aroma. Light leafy hops. Light flavours, mainly pale malts. Light bitterness. Smooth sailing, yeah that about sums it up.

pours topaz with a thick foamy head, foamy retention, sticky lacing, very active fast moving CO2 streams. Muted nose. Drinks 6/10-sweetness level, watery texture, aggressive burpy carbonation, tastes of bittersweet honey, hints of grapefruit, ends with a lingering sharp bitter hoppy finish. Medium complexity, medium depth, okay carry, good transitions, good drinkablility. A variety of elements - sweet, bitter, hoppy, crisp, honey. Too watery and thin for my tastes however.

5 ounce sample seasonal draft at the Swans bar at $10.00CAD for 6-samples. Very good.

pours a yellow with a nice sweet honey aroma and honey taste but also very pale flavours and light on the palate

Hazy gold,fast fading beige head. Neutral nose, Light sweet profile, bland and boring

Had this at a cask festival at Central City; the version was slightly different from the norm (no details provided). Aroma has strong honey notes. A light body with a sweet attack yields a very clean, crisp finish. A good summer/patio ale, but really not that remarkable.

Pours a clear pale yellow with a finger-thick egg-white head & some lacing with an unremarkable aroma - no honey yet. Taste is very refreshing, solid pale malt with a leafy green hop taste and definite honey in the finish. Body is crisp and tightly carbonated (served on draught). Well executed, nice honey taste, otherwise unremarkable.

7/14/07 On draught at the brewery. Aroma is sweet caramel malt with no discernable hop character. Appearance is a clear light gold with a low white head. Flavor is grainy sweet malt forward with a caramel note, followed by a fermenting honey note, sourness and moderate bittering, but no hop flavor. Mouthfeel is low bodied with a medium/high carb feel. Overall, this is clean and simple like a lager, and just not round like a pale ale should be.

Tap at Swans. Pale golden, no head or carbonation. Neutral aroma. light papery flavor. Watery, light honeyish aftertaste. Boring.

(Druaght) Pint @ $3.50. Pours a white, frothy head with a amber body. Nose of dough and honey. Somewhat crisp in flavour with a mild maltedness and slight bitter finish. Your average beer on the Island.