Niagara Falls Gritstone Premium Ale

Formerly brewed at Niagara Falls Brewing (Moosehead)
Style: English Strong Ale
Brampton, Canada

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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A soft brew with a faint malt character and a hoppier, spicier nose.

Dark amber ale with a good white head. Caramel aroma with notes of nuts and light smokeyness. Good malt base with nuttyness, like a good brown ale, not too sweet. Medium bodied. Jan. 2005.

red-brown colour, few head, very hoppy, bitter, lack of body, short aftertaste

12oz bottle acquired in trade with (thanks!). Poured a dark orange color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of light caramel, light smoke, and light grains (everything on the light side). Tastes of caramel, nuts, and toasted malts. Creamy but thin body.

UPDATED: DEC 2, 2007 Copper colour, thin white lace. Malty caramel toffee aroma with a big shot of berry/cherry fruit. Flavour is also malty and fruity. A bit of spicy hops and a softly bitter finish. Nice.

On tap - Bow and Arrow Toronto. Brown coloured beer with a bitter aroma and flavour like an English beer, but also notes of blackberries. Not a bad beer at all.

Pours a clear copper ruby color with a thin lacing eggshell head. Thick caramel toffee malt aroma. Smooth malty body has a light bitterness throughout. Don't really know if this qualifies as an English strong ale, but it's a decent malty full-bodied, yet smooth, brew.

lots of lacing, overall average. Malty bsicuit sweet but bitterness there too, in the finish. English style yes. Spicy hops, and that’s the aroma. On-tap at Fort York Brew Fest 2004.

Toronto Festival of Beer 2000 - Balanced but unexeptional beer. It did prove to be a good beer oasis at a work function recently though.

Bottle courtesy of matt7215. Pours red with a thin white head. Smells fruity (strawberries, cherries). Tastes of caramel malt, some light tartness, touches of earthiness. Enjoyable.