Hilltop
Monty's Brewery in Montgomery, Powys, Wales 🏴
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Honey Regular|
Score
5.91
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6.3/10
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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
5.9/10
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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
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber coloured beer with a strong white head. The aroma is lightly bitter with some smooth honeyness. The flavour is mellow with the honey, and gently bitter with a little dryness. Overall a very nice drinkable honey flavoured beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2018
at 01:26
6/10
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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
6.8/10
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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
5.1/10
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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
4.9/10
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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
4.8/10
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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!
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
5.5/10
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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
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
6/10
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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