Robert Simpson Anti-Gravity Light

Bottle from LCBO. Poured a light straw color with a decent white cap that didn’t hang around long..weak lacing on the glass. Nice grainy-biscuit dough aroma (very pronounced) bit of sweetness and straw ,little else...one dimensional aroma. Two dimensional taste with pale malts outpacing the thin northern brewer hops...light fast finish light biscuit aftertaste. Not a bad all natural brew and well made...approachable, fresh tasting, malty but uninspired and 2 dimensional....I’d buy this if it was a buk-a-beer brew but at this price there are better more inspired micro ales.

Bottle (355ml). Clear light gold, average quick-diminishing fizzy white head (3-). Slightly honey-sweet dry aroma, scorched straw and something stale and herbal. Taste isn’t bad - honey, clover, mild cereal malt body. Light body, very lively mouthfeel, quick finishing, but very crisp and refreshing - seriously, not bad at all for what it is - can it and toss a sixer in your golf bag.

Well, as far as light beer goes, this is pretty decent. Pours a pretty standard yellow fizzy beer. The aroma is some decent grassy, malty aroma. The flavour.....well there is some, and thats really saying something for a light beer. Straight up maltyness and not much else, but still pretty tasty for a light beer.

355mL bottle from the LCBO. So the award for least sensical thing I’ve ever read on a beer label goes to.....this beer, for the "Inspired ales, meant for drinking, not posing" line! Congrats! (wtf?)(and what the hell do they mean by ’Anti-Gravity Light’?) Anyways, the aroma on this one had me shuddering with memories of this brewery’s flagship beer which will go unmentioned, but is known for being somewhat of a corn orgy to the mouth. That horrible house corn aspect that really is unpleasant. But the flavour actually surprised me. There’s real malts in here! A touch of toffee, that’s all really, not a lot of distinction, but I’m pretty sure the lack of corn on the cobness really works to this one’s advantage! Very light and spritzy feeling, but not in an obnoxious way. This is actually far better than I was worried it might be.

355 ml bottle from LCBO, served almost cold in a tulip glass.

App.: Clear golden with a small white head. Aroma: An odd grainy, lightly fruity biscuit maltiness, Palate: Medium body, softer carbonation. Flav.: Lots of biscuit and toasty malt, that’s pretty much it; light finish that isn’t bitter and leaves a little malt behind.

Nice flavour for a lighter beer! Would be nice cottage/beach drinking

RE-RATE: I got a bottle of this in an Ontario Craft Brewers media package, and figured I’d give it another shot. Glad I did, as it’s improved a bit. It now has a nice golden colour with a good sized white head. Aroma and flavour are both very fresh, with slightly grainy malt notes, and some noticeable grassy hops in the finish. Crisp body that cleanses the palate well. Still not something I’d drink every day, but one of the better light beers in Ontario now. ORIGINAL RATING: Bottle at Ontario Brewing Awards. Very pale yellow with a small white head. Aroma of light grain with a faint fruitiness. Thin body. Flavour is very mild, with light malt and faint hops - yawn, just boring. Yeah, it’s a light beer, but with former Mill Street brewer Michael Duggan now manning the tanks at Robert Simpson, I was hoping for something that would break the mould a bit. [3/2/3/2/7 - 1.7]

2008-08-10. Very pale yellow, small white head. Very mild aroma, light straw/grains. Very light bitterness, mild pale malts. Average palate. Clean, mainstream. Nothing wrong with it, but theres not enough of anything for it to be right either. Bland, but I suppose its decent enough for something targeting the Light category? On tap at the Toronto Festival Of Beer

341 ml bottle from the LCBO breakers bin. pours very pale with a fizzy white head and huge carbonation bubbles. aromas are vauge fruit malts with some hay. nice flavour although its quite thin. light fruity malts and a crisp hoppy finish. pretty good stuff for a 4% golden/blond ale. id drink this again and i might even buy it for hot summer days. for a light beer it has a good amount of flavour and you could drink buckets of it.