Red Leaf Lager
Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Lager - Amber / Vienna Regular|
Score
5.04
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Another Dark Lager, how many lagers can one small brewery make!? two dark lagers, and one pale lager. Come on guys! you have made some great seasonals in the winter ale, the devils pale, and the orange peel ale. To be honest, i did a side by side with the black jack lager, and i dont see a difference.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Sample at the brewery, the beer itself is a reddish brown color with a sweet grainy biscuit aroma, the taste is more of the same but the beer has a decent balance and tastes better over the Blonde Lager which was below average. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Toronto 2015 trip +++ Sampled from a 473 ml can this beer poured a nut brown color with an orange hue and a medium sized fluffy beige head that left decent lacing. The aroma was sweet and malty with notes of toffee and a strong egg white presence. The flavor was malty and sweetish with toffee and egg white. Medium length finish. Medium body. Meh.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Poured from 473mL can. Copper with dissipating off white head. Light toffee and biscuit malt with grainy lager quality.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Canette 473ml. De couleur ambrée foncée et claire. Nez de grains de malt sucrés aux notes rôties, léger de caramel et de légumes bouillis sucrés avec des notes de houblon herbeux. Moyenne-mince en bouche avec un pétillement moyen ainsi qu’une texture légèrement huileuse. Léger goût de légumes bouillis sucrés lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût de grains sucrés légèrement caramélisés et aux faibles notes rôtis ainsi que des traces de pain mouillé puis en finale l’on retrouve une très légère amertume de houblon herbeux (herbes mouillées). Post-goût court-moyen, aux notes amères de houblon herbeux avec de faibles traces rôties.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Wow, a gold medal winner! Forgive me if I’m suspicious of competition winners... there are just too many competitions around to "award" medals for any kind of real incentive to care aboot them. But this one pours with a copper-brown body, some modest carbonation and a well-behaved head on top. Very soft malt aroma. Flavour is a lot of malt and little else - no complexity. Very drinkable though, in a forgettable kind of way. Tasted at 6.8 celsius, but even if warmed up you wouldn’t find any complexity. An average beer for a boring day.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
What can you expect from a beer that markets itself on nationality? Something along the lines of Molson? Anyway, the taste starts to get a touch foul after a while. Smell is indeed bad, like Duffman says and the taste has nothing notable besides a hint of maple... maybe that’s the misplaced nationalism trying to assert itself
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Originally rated September 2008. Written "Smooth red lager" on the front label. And it is. Pours a brown-red colour with a decent looking creamy off-white head. This one unfortunately does not stay long, and lacing is left to a bare minimum. The nose is quick to disappear, with a malty aroma. Smooth mouthfeel for sure and carbonation is pretty normal for a swill like this one. Not much flavours. A bit of caramel malt at first ending in a little bread aftertaste. Might be a little better than Rickard’s Red, but just an average summer red lager.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
bottle, thanks Andrew for bringing this one down with you. Pours copper/amber with off white head. Aroma of floral hops, malty with faint notes of caramel. Taste is malty, hoppy with some fruit presence. Overall mouthfeel is watery with slight dry-bubbly-bitter caramel finish. Not horrible, but too one dimensional and boring.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
341ml bottle from HogtownHarry; Nose was a nice caramelly malt with a slight vanilla note in the background; Clear rusty brown with a medium beige head; flavor is a little watery but pleasant with light caramel, sweetness, and a little pepperiness. Not that bad for a lager!