 VeloVampire (375), Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dec 5, 2007 Updated: Jan 31, 2008
Growler from the brewery - pours a shocking rusty copper hue with a medium white head. Beautiful, fresh aroma filled with bread dough, sweet malts and a good amount of hops. Nice yeastiness in there too. Flavour is brilliant - an expert mingling of hops and malt, with the malt providing a good body and the hops adding a nice refreshing bitter finish. Jesus, this is 3.9%?! You’d never know it to look, smell or taste, and really puts to rest the notion that "light beer" has to be light in colour, aroma and flavour. This blows all of them out of the water. I prefer the Galt Knife Old Style ever so slightly, but the two combined are without a doubt the best two lagers in Ontario, hands down. Terrific stuff.
Sammy (2969), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mar 25, 2008 Good natural bitterness for a lager without hopping, above average mouthfeel. Most smootha and drinkable
DougShoemaker (2553), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Feb 19, 2008 Malty nose, dark amber, almost no head. Taste is candied malt, sweet, toasty, good.
radiomgb (1711), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Jan 26, 2008 Golden coloured, thin white coloured head, very light to non-existent lacing. The aroma is light, some grass, flowers, pale malts, lightly sweet. The flavour is a little bland, some caramel sweetness, light grassy hops. Light nearing watery mouthfeel, light body, mild carbonation. Finishes lightly hopped, very mild. A tasty lager, a revisit is in the future.
Growler from <a
href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/ontario/cambridge/grand-river-brewing/9220.htm target=blank>Grand River Brewing in Cambridge, Ontario.
Opened on November 16, 2007.
Bottled October 30, 2007.
MrManning (1415), London, Ontario, Canada
Jan 15, 2008 At the brewery-Deep orange/amber body, pours a frothed rocky bleached white cap. The lacing and retention are excellent. Fresh fruity aroma, green apples, green leafy hops, lots of sugary malts leading to a touch of orange peel. There’s quite the balance in the flavour of subtle, off-dry malts, some fruit (pear, apple), some biscuit, with hearty doses of basil and leafy hops. Very refreshing, assertive, while at the same time being respectively "light". Another gem from this brewery!
The_Jester (444), Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Dec 23, 2007 From a growler. (Thanks radiomgb). Copper orange with just a film of head. (Perhaps due to time spent in the growler). The aroma is of stale apple and fresh cut grass. The flavour is more malt than hops - the malt profile actually becomes quite nice as the beer warms. Nice bitter finish. As full-bodied a light lager as you’ll find. Very tasty and drinkable. Why don’t they bottle this stuff?
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