Mykhola (Микола / Mukona) Honey Lager
Umanpivo

 

 

From a 500 ml bottle stamped LOT2060. Sampled April 15, 2026.

It pours an olive-yellow with a lingering head.

The aroma emits honey esters right away and a general bready sweetness. Low hop profile.

Light-medium mouthfeel.

The taste is honey sweet with a biscuit, bready character and floral hop finish. Generally, this is all about the honey.

Pleasant and unexpected. Sweet flavor but very drinkable.

(review from February 2023) Good but very sweet lager with nice mouthfeel; a big honey/malty/slightly bready flavor and a lingering aftertaste. Slava Ukraini!

The pour is straw colored with a medium level of carbonation. The taste is biscuity malt, grains, & honey. Cheers! B

 

Clear, amber color. Medium-sized, white head. Malt, hay, and honey in the aroma. Malty, moderately sweet taste with honey notes in the aftertaste.Drinkable.

Slightly hazy amber color with a modest white head.
The aroma is biscuits and honey with just a hint of fresh hay.
The taste is also honey and biscuits with a touch of caramel, lightly sweet. The finish dries out a bit with a touch of grassy hops, very mildly bitter.
The body is light/medium, moderate carbonation, very smooth and highly drinkable.
Altogether, this is a very tasty and refreshing brew, should go well with most food and summer activities but good anytime, very well done.

Poured from a 16.9 ounce bottle, the body is a nearly completely clear golden yellow with white fluffy head. Not much lacing.


Aroma is a pleasant honey. Taste follows nose as honey is the main attraction here. The bready malt bill blends well with the honey flavor. No noticeable hop flavor.

Mouthfeel is soft and light and, despite a large head at pour, the lager lacks carbonation.

From a large brown bottle, this beer is a clear, golden-honey color with a clean white head. The aroma is mostly of honey, with some grain scents in the background. There is a little malt scents as well. The taste is sweet, with honey flavor predominate. There is also a soft bready maltiness. Medium body. Interesting, but sometimes a little too sweet. Not bad, but not particularly good.

16.9oz bottle. Label is stamped 'LOT 1720'.
Partly cloudy, pale gold colored body. Gusher upon opening. One finger of bright white head when poured, and this disappears in short order, leaving a small surface storm (exists throughout) but no ring. No lacing.
Aroma is sweet honey, with sweet bread malts and a touch of citrus. Overall has an industrial note.
Taste is also honey sweet, with other flavors of white bread malts and a mix of berry and citrus. Gets rather harsh in the aftertaste.
Medium mouthfeel. Numbs the tongue. Bitterness is low. Weird carbonation, with the early gushing and then a disappearance of the foam head.
Not exactly knowing the time in the bottle, this brew does veer towards a sweet malt liquor with cabbage overtones that linger.

 

Poured from a bottle. Dark copper in color with a good sized head. Smells of malt, hops, bread and hints of fruit. Flavors of biscuit, malt and honey. Honey really shines through. Smooth and tasty.

 

Nice honey color. Honey/sugar is the first thing you smell and it's very pleasant. Nice light lager with a strong honey flavor which was enjoyable. I could see myself drinking a few of these in a row, although the 6.5% abv snuck up a little. Would definitely recommend. Never had a beer from Ukraine before and very pleased with it.

Pours copper in color with a clear transparency. Head is two fingers of white foam with decent retention. Aroma is honey coated biscuits and wafers with a little spicy and grassy hops. It's reminscent of a Popeyes biscuit, but not in a bad or negative way. Flavor profile is honey on biscuits, again, with some wafers and toast behind. Spicy and grassy hops add some zest. Nice pop of sweetness out front than shifts to dry, subtly, at the finish. Mouth feel is faintly crisp but is just a touch too fuzzy to quite land in that refreshing crispiness territory. Thickness is medium. Overall, refreshing and fun lager.

Served in a 15.5oz Spiegelau tulip from a 16.9oz bottle. Reviewed from notes.

Poured from a bottle into a pint glass
Appearance – The brew pours a very lightly hazed golden honey color with a big head of just off-white foam. The head has a moderate level of retention, fading over a moderate time, leaving a touch of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is strong of a cereal grain smell, having a strong cheerios like smell. Along with these comes lots of sweet honey and caramel, as well as a little bit of hay. In some ways it smells like a light honey nut cheerios like smell.
Taste – The taste begins and stays strong of a grainy flavor mixed with a strong showing of honey. There is a little bit of a toasted malt flavor as well, with this getting lighter as the taste advances. All the while the honey takes on more strength bringing more creaminess to the flavor. Toward the end, there is a touch of bitter herb and some light floral notes, joining the other flavors to leave one with a rather hearty grainy and honey heavy taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is rather silky and creamy with a moderate carbonation level. For the big honey flavors the feel is great and makes for a smooth sipper.
Overall – I rather liked this brew. Sweet and honey heavy, but really, rather enjoyable. Certainly, worth a try.

 

From the half liter bottle, it pours a clear, honey color with a very nice large, thick white head. The nose gets some citrus, honey and sweet malt. The mouth gets a sweetish smooth malty brew with notes of honey. Very nice!