Steelback (I) Tiverton Bear Honey Brown

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Another beer worthy of the Steelback name (and you have to be crap to be worthy of the name). It's a pale brown lager with honey added. Unlike some other honey products (Sleeman's Honey Brown) there is no discernable honey odour or flavour. Maybe the bees forgot to visit my bottle!

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Another semi-disappointing beer from this brewery. Better than the other beers I've tried but the honey flavor is there but outside of that it doesn't really offer much.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Pours a deep amber colour with a slight off-white creamy head. Mildly carbonated and good lace. The nose reminds me of almost every other Steelback; a mix of floral, nuts and caramel scents. Very smooth and creamy mouthfeel. Flavours start off mixed between nutty and mild sweetness and finishes with a light bitterness and hint of alcohol. Quite pleasant and easy drinking. Definitely, one of the best Steelback brews.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Certainly the second best of the line. It's like the silver, but with honey, much like a PBR Honey is a PBR, but with, you guessed it, honey. It's hard to say where it comes in in the Ontario honey beer line. Up near the top for sure.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

Arguably the best product made by this brewer..Tiverton Bear dark being the other product where mostly passable malt extract is used. Still has the vegital signature of corn dextrins. This also comes in a 355plastic pop bottle with shrink-wrap label bragging "all natural ingrediants" and "authentic Canadian beer". Again this is the first "all natural authentic Canadian beer" that has a lingering green beer corn burn in the finish. Pours a light amber-yellow... tiny instant disappearing head..... smell is cloying with light spice...hops nowhere....watery- fizzy mouthfeel overy sweet with no hop balance....still a harsh edge from lack of lagering and that familiar Douglas point after burn in the finish. Not very good beer better than some of the worst bargain brews from Miller or Pabst but not as good as the mega "economy brands" in Canada. Wasted honey on this effort....if any really is in this... could be corn syrup.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> RERATED 26/6/07... had to retaste this to placate the nattering marketers who run the OCB awards who think it warrants an award and has been "changed"...well from my perspective very little has changed. ..it has a real rocky cap now but it doesn’t last and goes to a open suface with just a micdoscopis lring that does not lace ...virtually no aroma smells of faint husk light sweetness and something that gives a wet cardboard decernment. ...this time around this beer seems more watery in the body than I remembered...no hint of honey although sweet in character, weak malt presence ...but the off tastes are absent...I guess that’s something but still this is a long way from an award winner in any contest of crafted beers. Must've been the only entry in the category or the judges were on crack...or maybe they just like watery bland industrial beer............I don't know maybe I don't get "it"...I can't see where watery bland beer like this is anything special let alone deserving of being rated as a premium macro....were you other guys drinking something else?