Brick Honey Red

Formerly brewed at Brick Brewing Company
Style: American Dark Lager
Waterloo, Canada

Draught @ Milestone’s in the Vancouver airport. Pale yellow, faint grainy aroma. Sweet grainy palate, rather bland.

Draught @ Milestone’s as Palomino Honey Red - Nice color but lacked head, too sweet for its own good. Pleasant enough to drink, but only recommended for beer newbies or my wife.

Amber-orange with no head or lace. Lots of honey and caramel in the nose, but that’s it. Taste is muddled by too much honey. Watery with some malt flavour. Has a syrupy mouthfeel that resembles old cola...flat and unflattering in every way.

Draught at Milestone’s. As ’Palomino Honey Lager’. Pours a clear bubbly orange with an average size diminishing white head. Aroma’s mild and dull with sugar, light hops, somewhat fake honey and a hint of grain. Watery flavour of fake honey, grain, malt and only a hint of hops. Light to average bodied. I’ve had worse Canadian ’Honey’ beers, that’s for sure, but this is still pretty mediocre stuff.

I’m pretty sure this one isn’t retired completely, I had it at the rum runners pub last night in Kitchener. And it wasn’t all that horrible. Nice aroma with honey being very evident. The taste had sort of an unpleasant skunkiness to it, but other than that it was enjoyable.

not very good. very very sweet, way too sweet. it was like taking a macro pale lager and dumping in whack of sugar water. very thin, not enjoyable at all.

Bronzey-red with white lace highlights. Smooth and malty flavour with a touch of hops. With food, this one went ineluctably down the gullet no questions asked.

Unfortunately, not in keeping with what I’ve come to expect from Brick. It does carry forth the Brick-typical absentee head, but this one also carries a somewhat unpleasing smell and far too much carbonation. I’ll go out on a limb and assume perhaps the place I tried it on tap - Big Daddy’s - had allowed it to age and become somewhat stale, but that’s not going to convince me to try it a second time. Flavour is mostly just carbonation, but you’ll find a bit of corn and grains alongside a tinge of honey. Sadly, I’ll recommend a pass.