Sleeman Honey Brown Lager

Brewed by Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. (Sapporo)
Style: American Dark Lager
Guelph, Canada

The packaging of this beer is pretty cool. I love clear bottles... aesthetically speaking. Pop top botttle in a sixer that's completely protected from the light. Unfortunately, for me, that's where the fascination stops! It keeps a lasting white head, and has a particularly brilliantly clear orange, amber body. The aromatics are pleasant and fairly simple... Sweet toasty malt aroma with a littlle bit of honey, no fruitiness since it's a lager, but un interesting just the same. Sweetly malty, toasty, and honey flavors with very good balance, but since it's a lager, no complexity. Finish is malty sweet and very clean. Lighter body with subdued carbonation for a lager. The only difference, IMHO, between this honey bown lager and JW Dundee's, is that this is more well balanced and less sticky sweet. I'm not impressed, and I wouldn't seek this out as an "I have to have this beer", beer. Maybe I'll have a head to head competition between the two and see which I like better. The packaging touts it as Canada's # 1 Micro brewery. A. I'd like to see Canada's definition of Micro Brewery. B. They've obviously never hear of Unibroue! Also expensive for a sixer of this beer. 8.19 for a JW Dundee's equal. For the money, I'd go JW Dundee's @ 4.99/6 even though I rated JW's lower.

The bottle shape forces as head, as it 'glugs' out of the clear bottle. Decent head and lacing. Color is a nice brown. Flavor is okay, nothing special, bit of honey sweetness with some malt.

Weak, thin, nearly tasteless. Mostly skunked due to the stupid bottle being clear and without even a label to shield it from being lightstruck. There is a rating on here that says "it's a bit expensive"!!!!! Guess that person won't be tasting any Cantillon any time soon....

Very pretty medium amber color with an amazing initial creamy-colored head. The head settles down fairly quickly. Slighty cloudy. Smooth & malty with just the mere hint of honey--certainly not overdone. Nice carbonation leads to a good mouthfeel. Very enjoyable!

had this beer in Toronto. not to bad really smooth and had a hint of honey in the taste

Amber in colour with a nice thin off-white head. Sweet aroma with a bit of malt. Medium-bodied; A bit sweet in the taste. Some honey flavour, but not much. Subtle aftertaste, a bit of malt no hops and almost no sweetness. Overall, not a good beer, but that shows some more flavour than the style usually has. Worth trying if you liked Dundee's Honey Brown. I had this 20 ounce pint served via draught at MacGregor's in Rochester, New York.

Had this bottled. Very little if any head. Slightly sweet nose of roses, dark golden color. Modestly sweet. This lager ain't bad.

Pours a golden colour with no head. Have had it before and it had a touch of honey sweetness and a decent bit of malt to it and were a decent beer. Most recent sample had a bunch of hot alcohol notes in it. Not a nice pint at all.