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Honey Brown Lager
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- European Dark Lager
Ranked #72 - ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 73
Ranked #27,703 - Avg:
- 3.09 | pDev: 15.21%
- Reviews:
- 35
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 06, 2023
- Added:
- Jul 01, 2003
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 13
Sweet and honey/molasses flavour, slightly hopped with fuller mouth feel.
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Ratings by staubot:
Reviewed by staubot from Canada (MB)
3.84/5 rDev +24.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev +24.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Clean rich colour. Big head a firs that goes down to a nice thick film cover. Foam comes out actually as a slight honey brown colour. Scent is not very strong bu of sweets malts and maybe some bread dough. Tastes sweet honey with malty caramel. Sticks to your tongue like a beer with thicker feel would but is still smooth going down with nice reminder that lingers. I've only had a few Honey lagers before but this is a very good one for coming out of a large brewery.
May 14, 2016More User Ratings:
Reviewed by YesKing from Canada (AB)
3.29/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.29/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pretty good beer here. Not gonna lie I drank it straight out the can so can't comment on the look. There's pretty much nothing to say about the smell, maybe it's just my untrained nose and the fact that I'm drinking this from the can but I'm not getting much of anything off of it.
However, this beer's got a nice malty taste with notes of honey (surprise) and brown sugar. The texture is good: decently full, certainly not watery. The very light carbonation makes for a smooth drink.
Overall, this is a very pleasant, easy drinking beer for when you wanna crush something lighter but not completely tasteless. Will buy again.
May 08, 2020However, this beer's got a nice malty taste with notes of honey (surprise) and brown sugar. The texture is good: decently full, certainly not watery. The very light carbonation makes for a smooth drink.
Overall, this is a very pleasant, easy drinking beer for when you wanna crush something lighter but not completely tasteless. Will buy again.
Reviewed by CalgaryFMC from Canada (AB)
3.34/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.34/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Just imbibed two pints at a Calgary pub near work. Another Big Rock brew that has been around for a long time and I've probably had it numerous times previously without caring too much about what I was drinking. This is classified as a Euro Dark Lager here? Sure I guess. It does have some old world character and there's a dearth of obvious American hop flavors. A coppery reddish brown beer with minimal beige foam, one that smells vaguely like brown sugar and cereal bowl malts with a hint of grassy hops, overall a pretty subdued aroma. Tastes malty and sweet as well, there's a sweetness that one might as well describe as honey coupled with sweet dough (not sure if this actually contains said honey). Could be more of a light brown sugar effect though. There's a similarly light nuttiness, hints of cherry bubblegum, and some dry cardboard and semi-earthy hops in the finish. Thin and fizzy like a standard macro-lager. Nothing too terrible but what's there is largely forgettable. This is what Big Rock used to represent and still backslides into at times.
Apr 03, 2014
Honey Brown Lager from Big Rock Brewery
Beer rating:
73 out of
100 with
71 ratings
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