Dark
Hockley Valley Brewing Company in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.40
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Hints of roasted nuts, caramel, chocolate, and coffee combine to make this award winner one of Ontario’s best-selling craft beers.
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thorongil (8206) reviewed Dark from Hockley Valley Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
(can) clear amber colour with medium tan head; aromas of bread, caramel, roast; clean watery flavour with light bitter finish
Metalchopz (7978) reviewed Dark from Hockley Valley Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Pours a deep red-brown-cola colour with a big creamy tanned head. The retention is quite good and the creamy-foam lacing is great. Aromas of rusty malt, dark malt, mild coffee and chocolate. The mouthfeel is creamy and light, but then again, that is what is written on the can (mild, light body, full flavour). And full flavour it is ! Mild bitterness with chocolate, nut, roasted malt, caramel, molasses and a crisp finish. Hockley Valley Brewing recommends drinking this beer cool, not cold, around 10-12 degrees Celcius. The LCBO site recommends drinking this with BBQ beef, grilled salmon, brown rice or fried shitake mushrooms. Extremely refreshing for a dark ale, great flavours and well recommended.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Dark from Hockley Valley Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can from matt7215. Thanks once more. Pours a dark ruby brown with a frothy beige head. Aromas of dark roasted malt and chocolate and citrus. Medium body with creamy/frothy carbonation. Flavor is chocolate, and barring some dark malt that’s it. Finishes mildly bitter and chocolate. It’s a mild brown ale, and all the chocolate makes it quite tasty. Damn good beer.
Irishboy (4674) reviewed Dark from Hockley Valley Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
473ml can from Garthicus. Nose of some caramel and a bit of butter (diacetyl). Clear cherry brown with a medium beige head. Flavor is butter and some toffee. Might be pretty good without the diacetyl.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Dark from Hockley Valley Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Dark brown color with a low tan head. Rich, sweet, malty and fruity aroma. toffee, a bit of coffee. Sweet dark malt flavor, with molasses and caramel, some fruit, and little hops. Very pleasant and mild, with complex malts, fruit. Full-bodied.
CH-303 (4723) reviewed Dark from Hockley Valley Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Appearance: Very dark redish brown. Little head. Aroma: Dark fruit. Roasted. Metallic. Taste: Roasted, burnt. Dark fruit. Malty. Slightly metallic. Info: 473ml can, 8/12-2007
Drake (22934) reviewed Dark from Hockley Valley Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
473 mL can from matt7215. Thanks! This is a brown ale? Huh. Wouldn’t have guessed when I tasted this during a Ratebeer site crash. Reddish brown pour with a medium frothy head. Grainy roasted malt aroma with hints of chocolate and coffee. Taste is very strong coffee with some grainy notes. A little thin but very pleasant.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Dark from Hockley Valley Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Canned at RBESG 2007. An amber beer with a thin tan head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt and bread as well as a light note of caramel. The flavor is weet with notes of straw and malt as well as a light note of straw, leading to a dry bitter and strawy finish. The body is thin.
Sigmund (14587) reviewed Dark from Hockley Valley Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can, at RBESG 2007 in Glasgow, Grand Tasting. Dark reddish brown colour. Aroma and flavour of moderately roasted malts. Quite nice.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Dark from Hockley Valley Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can RBESG 07 ... Deep red ... sweet roast malts ... sweet fruity malt nice malty balance.