Muskoka Honey Brown Lager

Brewed by Lakes of Muskoka Cottage Brewery
Style: American Dark Lager
Bracebridge, Canada

Bottle. Amber in the glass with a small head. Grain and caramel aroma. Sweet flavour with honey, fairly watery; there’s some more caramel, grain. Very light.

341mL bottle from an LCBO sixer. Pours a nice deep copper colour with a medium off white head. Aroma is nice, caramalized malt with a some tin and hops that makes it not seem like its going to be totally gross like most so called honey beers. The flavour follows through quite well with more toffee and caramalized, with a bit of grainy sweetness to back it up, almost toasty malts and a minor hop bite. Creamy feel the whole way through. Quite nice for a buckabeer, and a HONEY buckabeer at that. Lakeport Honey wishes it was anything remotely like this brew. I think this one has been given a bit of an unfair rough ride here what with the low rating.

341ml bottle, 4.8% a/v Pours a whiskey gold colour with a fairly generous offwhite head. The aroma is cereal and grains with a hint of chemicals, and nearly no hops to speak of. The taste is actually not bad, like the smell a bit chemically but overall a beer which is only exceptional in how average it is for the buck a beers.

341ml bottle, very grainy nose, and a very mealy/cereal/grainy flavour, the honey adds a slight sweet flavour, meh, not bad.

341 ml bottle. pours thin orange with a big white head that is gone quickly. big carbonation bubbles. weak aromas of grass with some traceable sweetness. bland boring flavours with a dry finish. i wish brewers would stop making honey lagers.

From memory. I can’t get over the odd distasteful feeling I got whenever I drank this beer. I think it was due to the artificial sweetness. There was a weird cloying each time I drank. It seems oddly prejudiced, but I just shudder every time I think of this beer. There was a sort of bland maltiness and sweetness, but not a malt sweetness. Six overall because it ties Muskoka Premium Lager (a far superior beer) for the cheapest bottled beer available in Ontario.

Bottle fresh from brewery Honey beers are not to everyone’s taste as they tend to offend with too much sweetness or not enough honey flavor…This one has trimmed back hops like the others but there is an excellent balance between fresh bready malt and tangy natural honey flavor which seems to compliment the hopping without being overly sweet….malty, decently balanced for the style this is my second favorite Honey lager….and fresh tasting too.

Like the Muskoka Lager, this has become a buck-a-beer. Not the best beer out there but pretty good for the price considering the competition. If you’re a fan of cheap honey beers this is your best choice, otherwise this is just an average beer. Aroma and appearance are typical of this type of beer. Flavour is nothing special.