Whistler Brewing Company Bear Paw Honey Lager

Bear Paw Honey Lager

 

Whistler Brewing Company in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

  Lager - Amber / Vienna Regular
Score
6.04
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 16 Ticks: 10
This award winning honey lager is fresh-brewed and fermented with 100% BC honey, so you can actually smell the honey aromas and taste the silky smooth honey on the finish. It’s a very unique lager experience.

Hops: Cluster & Nugget
 

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5.4
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Office tick. Definitely on the caramel side. A touch more bitterness than expected. But still sweet. I’m guessing one is plenty.

Tried from Can on 20 Aug 2025 at 23:13


5.5
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bright amber, fast fading beige head. Nose and palate of light honey and malt, pleasantly sweet throughout

Tried from Can on 16 Aug 2025 at 23:14


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Ive had many honey lagers, and they are all a gimmick, the honey is usualy just for color, and does nothing for the flavour. Well, this beer bucks that trend. Its pours clear copper, with a small white head. The aroma is some light nuts, some maple sugar, brown sugar, cheap, sweet grains and yes, some floral honey. The mouth feel and body are standard. The finish is lightly bitter with an at first cloyingly sweet malt base, that is actaully off putting, but as soon as it came, it leaves. The finish is incredibly quick and dry. Once the sweetness is gone, there is nothing left. An odd beer.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:46


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Glass, 4-ounce, bottle, gift, drunk at the Vancouver Convention Centre, trip to the Joint Statistical Meeting with Louise, savoured on July 30 2018; eye: coppery, clear, sheet of beige head, light lacing; nose: slight malt, slight honey, slight spices; mouth: slight malt, slight honey, slight spices, finale in light honey with light presence of spices, light body, average carbonation, lightly sweet, slick texture; overall: correct

FRANÇAIS
Verre, 4 onces, bouteille, cadeau, bue au Vancouver Convention Centre, voyage au Joint Statistical Meeting avec Louise, savourée le 30 juillet 2018; œil : cuivrée, limpide, couverture de mousse beige, légère dentelle; nez : très léger malt, très léger miel, très léger épices; bouche : très léger malt, très léger miel, très léger épices, finale en léger miel avec légère présence d'épices, corps léger, carbonatation moyenne, légèrement sucrée, texture coulante; en résumé : bien

Tried from Bottle on 29 Jul 2019 at 20:04


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle, pours a clear copper orange with a small white head. Aroma and flavour brings out notes of honey, bready malt and some residual sweetness from the honey and malt. Quite nice for a shitty lager.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2014 at 00:04


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Part of the BC Craft Brewers Guild Natural Selections 6 pack (2014). Pours a clean amber colour with a light-beige head that stays a little and creates foamy-streaking lacing. Lots of apples for aromas at first. Then, rye grain comes out with some hints of hops and sweet honey. The taste is mild, but has all the characteristics of the nose. Caramel comes out in both after breathing, but everything does not get too sweet, which makes this one a decent honey lager.

Tried on 29 Oct 2014 at 20:15


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. 5% Part of the LCBO BC Craft 6 pack. Served in a lager glass. A crystal clear honey amber with a soapy off-white head. It has a really nice honey bready graham aroma. Medium bodied with a soft rounded carbonation and smooth mouthfeel. A malt forward lager, sweet honey & biscuity malts with a dash of caramel. It seems like a honey Vienna Lager. A well made honey lager, possibly a bit too sweet. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tried from Bottle on 14 Aug 2014 at 13:09


6.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught at Tap & Barrel, Coal Harbour, Vancouver
Amber color, clear, with small head. It has a light caramel aroma and flavor, with a very light nutty honey aftertaste; correct bitterness.
Nothing complicated, but flawless, clean and easy to drink.

Tried from Draft on 28 Dec 2013 at 00:39


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4

Pours a light amber with little head. Aromas of light malt. Pretty standard industrial beer flavor with extra sweetner.

Tried on 27 Oct 2012 at 15:04


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Very nice big head and a dark copper-brown body. Soft aroma of honeydew melons and canteloupe. Flavour is a good mix of caramel dark ale with a sweet finish. This is some decent drinking right here.

Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2011 at 14:31