MacTarnahans Original Honey Beer (Oregon Honey Beer)
MacTarnahans Original Honey Beer (Oregon Honey Beer)
Rated 2.705 by BeerPals
Brewed by MacTarnahan's Brewing Company
Portland, OR, United States
Style: Blonde Ale
4.8% Alcohol by Volume
16 International Bittering Units
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Here’s the original honey beer. Crisp and refreshing, with a hint of sweetness. To craft the beer, we enlist the talents of several million local bees for their pure, white clover honey. Our brewmaster then blends the ambrosia with select, two-row barley malt and balances it with prized Willamette hops. While the bees reluctantly part with their honey, The Great American Beer Festival enthusiastically receives it, as they’ve awarded OHB a silver medal in a category with more than 60 blonde ales. (As you can imagine, this has created quite a buzz.)
ID: 7510 Last updated 2 weeks ago Added to database 22 years agoKey Stats
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| Overall Rank | 53365 |
| Overall Percentile | 4.1 |
| Style Rank | 1438 of 1496 |
| Style Percentile | 3.9 |
| Lowest Score | 1.5 |
| Highest Score | 3.9 |
| Average Score | 2.656 |
| Weighted Score | 2.705 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.664 |
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18 Member Reviews
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Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7
I didn't know what to expect. I did expect more of a honey taste. This beer turned out to be very average. Much like a blonde ale or a lager. Pretty plain, but at the same time it's still a good beer.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5
Pours into my 25cl tulip glass with a two-finger thick, pale, off-white colored head. The beer is a clear copper color, that shows a bright gold color when held up to the light. The aroma is definitely influenced by honey, with it being the most prominent note. There is also a touch of grassy grain aromatics, notes of crushed saltine crackers as well as a thin beery note. Fairly simplistic aroma, that is not as interesting as it could be.
A honey sweetness is noticeable at the front of a sip, but the beer dries out somewhat without losing the floral honey flavors entirely. Perhaps a kiss of hops add a faint bitterness, as a balancing note the fizzy carbonation seems to add some sharpness to temper the honey flavors. Grassy / grainy malt character is noticeable, but doesn't do a whole lot for the complexity of this brew. Thinnish and light in the mouthfeel, if the flavors were better this would be quite quaffable.
Not a bad beer, it doesn't have any real flaws, it just isn't all that interesting.
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Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5
This beer pours a brightly coloured golden colour with a slight orange tint. No head, just a little visible scattered white froth atop. Aroma is malty with a barely noticeable honey scent. Mouthfeel is well carbonated, and honey is evident upon initial taste. Refreshing crisp, and pretty clean taste all the way through.
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Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4
umm, theres not a lot of flavor, i taste no honey, aww a little bit of hops! its a nice blond color, but little hued~ it was free so i wont say no, but i wouldnt buy it any more!
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Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4
Well, this beer was a whole lot of nothing. Nothing bad, nothing good. Clear golden in color, there was not much flavor going on. I'm glad that I didn't pay for it...
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Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5
The beer poured a golden color with a soapy head. The aroma is grassy with some citrus and honey. The flavor is rather bland and I really don’t taste much honey in this one. This is a small step up from any other swill.
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Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5
Overall this is probably one of the hardest beers I have had to judge. The aroma is really no existant, the appearance is much like a pale lager and the flavor is sweet but lacks any true honey flavor. The difference is the mouthfeel. It goes down incredibly smooth, has no harsh impact on the mouth and has a long lasting crisp aftertaste. Probably wouldnt buy it again but its a refreshing beverage.
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Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3
Split a 12 oz bottle with SWF as a refreshing, post-run reward. Yellow-gold in color with a thin and rapidly disappearing white head. Neither the aroma nor the taste live up to expectations. MacTarnahan's? Oregon? Honey? Beer? Four of my favorite topics. And yet--- My hopes for this promisingly-named beverage evaporated as quickly as its foamless cap. Pass.
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Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6
well i'm not really impressed, then again i wasn't expecting to be. this brew poured a nice golden color with a medium white head. the aroma is weak but of some malt, but mainly hops. the mouthfeel is thin and crisp, and the flavor was lightly of carbonation and a mix of hops and malts. i know this is very general, but so is the beer. overall i won't ever buy this brew again. but it's not bad.
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Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5
I was putting this beer off for a while, and I finally decided to try it. It feels rather full, almost chewy in your mouth. It is a little sweet and there is a slight honey aftertaste. The color of it is a rather cloudy golden color. Really smooth...goes down very easily.
