Skinners Heligan Honey

Brewed by Skinners
Style: Bitter
Truro, England

Serve in English pint

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Clear amber color, short head. Aroma of english hops, some tones of honey, caramel malt. Regular bitter taste, some sweetness. Quite decent beer.

UPDATED: MAR 18, 2007 Bottle: amber with a small, fast disappearing head. Sweet malty aroma. No specific honey flavour in my opinion, but a sweet taste with a bit of citric fruit and less bitterness. Not great. 18.3.07: Cask at Wellington Arms,Bedford. Sweet aroma. Honey taste is quite distinctive in the cask version, contrasting nicely with the sourness. Rating: 6,3,6,4,14,3.3

Cask Stillage at the Memorial Hall, Northwich 20/09/2003 Golden coloured and slightly sweet on the palate. Some dryness in a lasting malt finish.

Appearance is an arresting, murky scarlet-brown. Neither the aroma nor flavour are that pronounced, but there are muted showings of caramel, vanilla, lavender soap and malt lurking in there somewhere. Overall a little watery and noncommittal. An average honey beer; obviously the product of over-worked bees.

Bottled. This is dreadful stuff. Stale, fizzy, pasteurised awfulness. Get your nose in there and smell that dead rat floating on top of this junk. I’m really regretting opening this beer. And to think that last night I was drinking real live beer in a pub, and now here I am reducing to drinking this dead apology for a beer. My god this is bad. I wasted good money on this toxic slime. I can’t drink any more. Nil points.

Bottled. Pours a pale amber with a white head. Aroma is dusty, malty, with faint notes of honey. Taste is malty, rather fruity, with notes of honey

Bottle. Golden colour with a small off-white head. Florel honey aroma and a sweet light harsh honey taste. Medium body and a light dry finish.

On draught at Skinners Ale House, Newquay: Amber coloured, hazy, lacing foam; floral hoppiness in the nose; bitter-sweet (honey?) flavour, long lasting bitter-aromatic aftertaste. Well balanced, well quaffable !

Cask, Worcester beer festival. Golden straw/amber colour. A beer with a moderate bitterness and some honey flavour. Quite smooth but I do think there are better honey beers out there.

Bottled. Pale brown colour, a bit hazy. Huge beige frothy head. Honey, hops and malt in the aroma. Also some citric hints. Sweet citric flavour with honey peak in finish. A bit bitter aftertaste. Very refreshing beer.