Laker Red 5.5

341mL bottle from a mixed-6, from the brewery retail store. Pours out a clear red with a big white head. Looks nice, but the aroma is pretty bad, not much going on except some crappy malts with corn and adjuncts. No hops, no distinctive malt characteristics. Lame. The flavour is just as lame, really not much to speak of, same crappy probably adjuncty malts, a tiny hint of caramalt except that it’s so faint I might just be hallucinating. Not as cloyingly sweet as you might think but there is absolutely ZERO hop activity here. I would not willingly drink this again. Lakeport Red actually has more distinct flavour to it, which is absolutely pathetic. Really not very good.

Tasted 11/3/08. 12oz bottle. Filtered with an amber hue. Moldy ring of head. Caramel cereal aromas. Medium bodied with sweet malts and a bitter acidic finish. Moderate effervescence. Touch dry in the finish.

one of the best buck a beers, a much stronger and initially better taste than would be expected, but after a few beers it gets a little annoying.

Bottle at my Bro’s. The only thing he had at the time and I was kinda thirsty so what the heck, might as well have one. Aroma was grainy sweet but very faint. Pour light copper with a small dimishing head. As I drank it I was reminded of Rickard’s Red but the finish was a bit more harsh and had that discount beer chemical taste. Nothing noteworthy about this beer.

Bottle. There’s a touch of red in the appearance, but more-so deep amber meets brown. Pleasing malt and cherry aroma. Palate is a little thin, and is bettered by a rich malty flavour and berryfruit middle. Thin malt finish. Fairly ordinary, though a standout in the Ontario buck-a-beer category.

bottle. pours red [like actually food colouring red] with quick small white head. aromas are mild sweetness but almost nothing. tates sweet with thick gluey finish. not good not even as good as laker lager and thats not good.

this beer was not really up to my standards. everytime i finished one i was like thank god. and then felt disapointed becuase i had more to go

33cl bottle, Shelburne. Light auburn colour,sweet aroma (very similar to most Laker products). Sweet flavour, some malt but mostly corn base coming through. Better red beers out there but hey it’s cheap.