MacTarnahans Oregon Honey Beer

Brewed by Portland Brewing Company (Pyramid)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Had this beer on 4/7/1999. Color is a bright clear gold with high carbonation and good head. Aroma is thin and malty. Taste is light and crisp. It starts with a light body goes down crisp and easy. The finish is a light malt flavor with a very light hop bitterness. Overall it’s the first of the honey brews I’ve rated, but they are all about the same being a lot like a Pilsner. It would be a good summertime beer.

This is a light, but smooth and tasty beer. It’s gold with a thick, dense white head that lasts fairly well. The aroma is grain & honey, slightly musty. The taste is mild but very nice, with a faint honey taste and a nice finish of grain and a hint of honey. It has light sweetness with almost no bitterness.

Pours honey color with a thin white head. Moderate carbonation can be viewed through the almost clear body. Flavor is mildly bitter and soapy. Honey can be tasted but not as much as hoped for. This is just a weak effort.

It doesn’t really smell that nice, and it doesn’t taste that great either. Looks pale and unimpressive, like a budweiser or something. The flavor is TOO SWEET, and ends up tasting like sour milk. What a disappointment...

pours a pale golden amber with a paper thin white head that dissipates rapidly. smell - wheat, honey, yeast. taste - fizzy, spice, touch of sweetness, but does not really taste like honey, carbonation is a bit much. not too impressed.

Pours a golden tinge with a white froth (not quite a head) that dissipates quickly. I can’t say what it smells of at the moment, as I’m sick, but straining produces a faint combination of malt, lemon, and maybe honey, as you’d expect, but that could have been inferred from the type. Medium in flavors; malt, honey, LEMON, with possible hints of cinnamon? Goes down easy, though the carbonation overwhelms the flavors. If you give your tongue a good rub on the palate you can extract some rewarding flavors. Overall, little to really think about here.

on tap-pours a thin white head and pale yellow color. Aroma is mild, musty. Taste is faint sweetness, mild, musty wheat. Mead-like. Thin, light body.

Draft at the Safeco Field brewpub. Pours cloudy medium amber with a slim rim of white and no lace. Can’t really smell much beer through the slab of lemon they stick on it. Medium, somewhat grainy body. Tingly carb. Cloying sweet honet all over the place. Not much finish. Not much start. Not much middle.