Upper Canada Lager
Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. in Guelph, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Lager - Premium Regular|
Score
5.53
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5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........Oh, huh? oh yeah! i was rating this beer. Sorry the boring and blandness of this run of the mill lager put me right to sleep. Your typical macro lager. WHOOPEE. Boring stuff.
Tried
on 27 Feb 2025
at 09:33
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
From old tasting notes. Bright yellow gold color. Big rocky white head. Zesty lemon peel malt nose. Bold, crisp malt flavor has a pronounced grassy hop character. Bitter hop finish. Dry aftertaste.
Tried
on 25 Aug 2017
at 22:22
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Smells of a little caramel malt. Pours golden, decent-looking for a lager. Taste is a little crisp, not bad for the style really. Of course after a day doing construction site cleanup, this tastes alright.
Tried
on 29 Aug 2012
at 14:10
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Originally rated December 2004. Says "Naturally handcrafted with only four ingredients" on green label, with Canadians in a canoe (back in the day). Poured a light golden-yellow colour with a fast dissipating head. The lacing was light. The aromas were malty and grainy. The taste was semi-bitter with a good crisp finish. Very drinkable, but nothing fancy.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Apr 2012
at 22:14
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Draught in Toronto. Bright yellow with a thin white head, and little lacing. Aroma of malt and light citrus. Taste of malt, black pepper and a hint of lemon. Not complex. Weak body. Unimpressive overall, and average lager that is pretty forgettable.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2009
at 16:37
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle: Poured a strong yellow color lager with a medium head with OK retention. Aroma is quite bland with some malt and very little hops. Taste is refreshing and quite crisp and I would say has more flavour then your usual macro lager. I guess this as improve since the last couple of year I had it before but it is still not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2005
at 08:28
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours a light amber colour with a white creamy head. Scents of malts and honey. Slight taste of honey. Caramel and malt. The palate is creamy with lingering malts and hops.
Tried
on 29 Jan 2004
at 19:39
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Had a 12 pack of this in bottles. I was impressed. For a regular lager, this was decent stuff. Had an apparent malt sweetness to the body that was pronounced due to some alcohol flavors. There were some stale hops flavors throughout that detracted from the flavor and the finish was a bit dry and stale. Overall not as watery as many standard lagers, has some spice and an interesting medium dry, medium acidic fruit taste at the beginning. Wasnt terribly carbonated either in the bottle
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2003
at 07:27
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Hazy gold with white head.Clean malt nose and flavor........................
Tried
on 07 Jan 2003
at 10:01
2.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
Stale, bland, boring and watery!............................................
Tried
on 29 Jun 2002
at 05:53