Brick Waterloo Dark

Brewed by Brick Brewing Company
Style: Schwarzbier
Waterloo, Canada

473 ml can courtesy of a trade with Boutip. Pours a clear dark reddish brown with a moderate off-white head that faded after the second sip and left a few scattered broken lines of lace. Very weak aroma of malt. The flavor thankfully has a bit more oomph than the aroma suggests but is still quite mild and consists primarily of malt. A bit lighter in body than I was expecting, but not watery. No problems with this beer, just very bland.

I didn’t know dark beer’s coming into this one well. Only dark i knew were Coffee porter and Devil’s Pale Ale 666. So, for me dark beer would be 1-3 a yr tops type thing. I thought this one would be heavy and interesting but not a pick me up again drink. Boy,was I wrong. Veary dark,but it’s really refreashing and light bodied(get cold ppl)Some sip’s had that weird dark beer taste that i am not 2100% into trying to com into me,but just hint’s it. Some spi’s tasted kinda like sweet candy with hint of water spilled on to it. I actully enjoyed this beer! May buy again!

Deep dark coloured body with a mild ruby tint and a very thin tan head. Aroma of mild malt, cardboard, yeast and a little bit of sugar. Light-bodied; Strong cardboard and sugar flavours with not much else but funky malt and water. Aftertaste shows just about nothing, perhaps cardboard and some sugars. Overall, a pretty bad beer - I don’t see much premium about this, but it was nice to at least try it. I sampled this 473 mL can purchased from the LCBO (Summerhill) in Toronto, Ontario on 11-October-2009 sampled from home in Washington on 06-November-2009.

Dark brown with a thick tight tan head. Aroma is slightly dusty light chocolate malt. Some fruity hop. Flavour is a little thin tasting, Though somewhat creamy. nutty, caramel and toasted malts, some burnt malt bitterness. Hints of dark fruits.

can. Poured dark brown, almost opaque with medium tan head. Very light fruity aroma. Palate initially light and watery. Sweet & roasted caramel and raison flavour. Light dry finish.

Bottle at Imperial Pub in Toronto. Pours a nice reddish brown, not much head. Nearly opaque when held to the light - impressive looking. Very sweet taste, sorta fruity - plums, raisins. Pretty thin, I was hoping for some creamy texture and malty flavors...and didn’t find either of them. Meh....looks a lot better than it tastes.

Took a while to find this on Ratebeer. It was an impulse buy at a lousy beer store in Canada. The aroma is strange, sweet, malty, earthy, tangy. The appearance is attractive, dark red/brown, dissipating white head. The flavor is malty, caramel, bread, toasted malts. The finish is slightly bitter and dry. Thin/medium mouthfeel. Not terrible.

What’s this all about? It started well, with a rich, dark amber colour but it all went downhill from there. Head was conspicuous by its abesence, and there was a very faint aroma of perhaps some malt. Taste was slightly malt, but not much else. Mouthfeel was seriously thin, and no aftertaste to speak of. This cannot be my either my last review of 2006 nor my first of 2007. Gotta do better than this!