Monty's Brewery Hilltop

Hilltop

 

Monty's Brewery in Montgomery, Powys, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

  Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Honey Regular
Score
5.83
ABV: 3.6% IBU: - Ticks: 11
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6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Old notes from Nov 2014 - A bottle brought from the Spar shop in Montgomery, only a couple of miles from the brewery. Poured into a Liberation Ale pint glass. It has a golden look with a white foamy head. The taste has a hint of honey and goes down quite easily with it's rounded finish.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jun 2025 at 13:10


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from Coed-Y-Dinas, Welshpool. Clear golden with a small head. Its honey is light but dominant in this brew, mainly as there's little else if not, other than being fairly easy to sup

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2023 at 19:14


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle at home. A lively pour, but not over-carbonated. No real nose and I quite a limited flavour profile. I am sure that I got that musky, farmyard flavour from the honey, but it could have just been some bittering hops. And that was about it for flavour! Not much mouthfeel either and overall really not great.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Nov 2017 at 02:49


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

500ml bottle conditioned at home on 11th Sep 2015. Poured into a UK pint sleeve. Lovely, clear golden hue to the beers body, full off-white topping. Definite honey notes in the nose and taste in this semi-sweet brew. Not a big fan of Honey beers usually, but this is fine and a nice flavoured blend, at only 3.6% ABV it still had enough about it.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2015 at 12:13


5.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Flaske fra Det gode brygg, Sandnes: klar gylden med fint hvitt skum som varer. Mild citrusaroma med touch av honning. Smaken likeledes. OK lettøl om sommeren, men noteres i glemmeboken.

Tried on 17 Jun 2015 at 12:41


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

500ml bottle. Pours clear gold with moderate white head. Extremely mild honey aroma. Taste is a touch homebrewy with a boring 3.6% blonde character and barely noticeable honey. Pointless.

Tried from Bottle on 07 May 2015 at 17:30


4.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

22nd January 2014
Almost clear gold - amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, modest fine carbonation. Light pale malts, touch of grain and it’s a little dusty. Trace of floralness and a barely detectable citric hop. Light dry finish. Crushingly bland!

Tried on 24 Jan 2015 at 07:36


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

Lukt: Sylig duft av humle og malt og en anelse karamell.
Utseende: Dunkel gulbrun farge.
Skum/kullsyre: tynt lag skum, heng langs kant.
Smak: Tørr noe bitter smak med en anelse karamell i en tørr ettersmak.
Hvor: Kjøpt@Det Gode Brygg, Sandnes, Nydt@Lokal hjemme tasting med Gorm
Medium: Flaske@500ml, ABV@3,6%, Når@17.01.2015

Tried on 17 Jan 2015 at 13:37


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

Cask (handpump) @ The New Oxford, 11 Bexley Sq, Salford, Manchester, England M3 6DB.Clear medium to dark yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, pale nuts, earthy, straw. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, nutty, straw. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20130125]

Tried from Cask on 18 Feb 2014 at 10:42


4.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

New Oxford, Salford 27 Jan 13. Gyldenbrun. Lavt skum som etterlater litt lacing. Aroma av stikkelsbær og litt bringebær. Myk munnfølelse. Smaken veldig tynn. Antydning til syrlige bær - men kjedelig. Litt tung bakgrunns-smak. Honning?

Tried on 16 Feb 2014 at 05:01