Point Honey Light

Brewed by Stevens Point Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Stevens Point, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

Bottle and served in my Back Road pint glass:

Poured to a clean straw hue witha short lived fizzy head and zip for lace. The aroma has a weak note of pale malt, wheat, pear, and grassy hops. Not much honey character on the nose. The flavor wasn’t much better, very washed out sweetness with just a kiss of citric twang. WHERE IN THE HECK IS THE HONEY? The only good quality of the taste is a smack of Cascade hops which kept me from dumping it down the drain. The feel is equally weak and boring, quite the cardboard like aftertaste. Okay, it cost me 99 cents for the bottle and the only reason I bought for a rating. Next time I would even pass if free.

Bottle poured a clear pale yellow with a white head. Aromas of bread, sweet malt, and a touch of citrus. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of bread and faint citrus with a sweet finish.

UPDATED: OCT 24, 2005 <font size=+1>Point Honey Light
<font size=-2>Frankenkitty’s first RateBeer poem

<font size=-1>I’d soon be drinking but what was I thinking?
  I bought the Point sampler last night.
I tried all the others, some were good, some were mothers...
  I proceeded to Point Honey Light.

I sniffed from my glass as I sat on my ass
  and found the aroma unpleasant:
Cardboard and, yes... some faint DMS,
  But grain and rye came like a present.

Things finally picked up when I sipped a quick sup:
  the flavor was right on the money...
Barley and wheat made the background complete
  for a beer with a mild hint of honey.

A clinically-clear, bright golden beer
  with a fast head and a flat body.
It must have been luck ’cause I thought it would suck
  but it actually wasn’t that shoddy.


Thank you... thank you very much. I’ll be here all week.


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bottle-pours pale straw yellow with a sudsy white head. fairly grainy and stale aroma with light sweetness/sugar/honey. flavros show those stale malts tenfold. ugh! the honey tries to combat the staleness with sweetness and it doesnt work. fairly watery palate. mabye i got an old bottle. I would re-rate this beer once i get the chance. all in all, this could be a good lager given the right sample.

Very pale with a very thin white head. Aroma is mild malt and grains. Watery body with lots of carbonation. Flavor is very light grain and malt with a light sour hops finish. The honey was very well hidden and I could only detect faint traces of it occasionally. Reminds of Point special lager in that it isn’t bad at all, it just doesn’t have anything really memorable either.

Poured from the bottle with large bubbles in a light yellow body. The aroam has earthy carrots and grass. The honey is there in the background. The taste is grainy corn and some hay. There is also a small amount of honey.

Could definitely do worse with a light beer. Nice pale yellow with a decent amount of white fizz. Pillsnery with a crisp aftertaste.

Vitamin B urine color, thin white head. If the head maintains itself, it actually doesn’t look that bad. Of course, given the fact that it is beer maybe it does look bad. Anyway... papery hops with some light honey malt. Tastes pretty papery with a touch of sour cascade and pislnery hops. Its a little better than a macro beer.