Grand River Brewing Grand River Galt Knife Old Style Lager

Grand River Galt Knife Old Style Lager

 

Grand River Brewing in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

  Lager - Premium Regular
Score
6.49
ABV: 4.4% IBU: - Ticks: 14
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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

500ml bottle, bottled january 11/2011.
Clear amber pour, small off white head. Great sweet bready, caramel malts. Flavor is packed with bitter floral hops. This is deserving of tops in its style!

Tried from Bottle on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:25


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Draft - Sweet fruit esters, apricot, peach and grain. Clear gold with a nice beige head. Sweet fruit, bitterness and grains, with a light fruity ester finish. Interesting.

Tried from Draft on 30 Aug 2014 at 10:11


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bouteille 500ml. De couleur dorée et claire. Nez de grains de malt sucrés, moyen de pain, léger de houblon herbeux (gazon mouillé) et floral et léger de fruits (agrumes) avec quelques traces de caramel. Mince-moyenne en bouche avec un pétillement moyen-doux ainsi qu’une texture légèrement crémeuse. Goût très légèrement fruité (agrumes) accompagné d’un léger goût de grains de malt pâle sucrés lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût de pain ainsi que des notes de caramel rôti et de biscuits puis en finale l’on retrouve une légère amertume asséchante de houblon herbeux (gazon mouillé, traces de foin) et légèrement floral. Post-goût moyen et un peu sec, légèrement amer de houblon herbeux aux notes florales avec des traces fruitées (zeste d’agrumes).

Tried on 14 Dec 2012 at 22:38


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

strong smell of honey and a taste that follows through with more of that. a taste of hops in here. a really decent lager - if lagers always tasted like this id drink a whole lot more of them, even when they werent cheap. half litre bottle

Tried from Bottle on 11 Mar 2012 at 00:01


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Sample at the Strange Brew Tasting on 02/18/2012. Dark copper-gold pour with a medium thin white head that burns away quickly. Spotty lacing. Aroma of mild hops and sweet malt. Light body with flavors of mildly bitter hops and biscuity malt. The finish is short and lightly hopped. Just average overall.

Tried on 20 Feb 2012 at 17:50


4.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Modest head and a copper-gold body with little carbonation. Aroma of wet burlap, very faint. Flavour is a lot of bread and crackers, maltiness, wet finish. Old-style don’t necessarily mean good, and this tastes closer to a low-alc than anything else.

Tried on 05 Feb 2012 at 10:09


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at Max’s tasting. Pours clear amber. White head. Nose of lager malts, hops and citrus. Taste of grain, bready malts and hops. Dry finish. Lots of IPA characteristics.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Mar 2011 at 01:21


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

One of two brews from Grand River Brewing that we get at the Ottawa LCBOs in 500ml brown bottles. Stamped on lonely front label, bottled on NOV 23 2010. Pours a slightly hazy (not filtered to the max) amber colour. The head is decent with minimal lacing, but a nice 2-3mm thickness coats the beer and stays. Very light carbonation. Sweet grainy malt aromas. Mild bread malt flavours mixed with the hoppy finish which adds a little bitterness. Quite mild though. Wish it would pack more of a punch (should have more alcohol). This could be a great lager.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Feb 2011 at 16:09


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Brown bottle, 500 ml, bottled on December 4 2009, gift from Karl Probst (danke!) received on December 12 2009, savoured on May 11 2010; eye: copper, clear, no effervescence, voluminous white head that turns into melting ice cream, light lacing; nose: malt, grain; mouth: malt, grain, finale in grain, and then bitterness appears out of nowhere, medium body, rather carbonated, good astringency, grainy texture; overall: different FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 500 ml, embouteillée le 4 décembre 2009, cadeau de Karl Probst (merci!) reçu le 12 décembre 2009, savourée le 11 mai 2010; œil : cuivrée, claire, pas d’effervescence, mousse blanche abondante qui se transforme en crème glacée fondante, légère dentelle; nez : malt, grain; bouche : malt, grain, finale en grain, amertume qui apparaît de nulle part, corps moyen, plutôt carbonatée, bonne astringence, texture granuleuse; en résumé : différent

Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2010 at 13:34


5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle: Poured a bright golden color lager with a medium size foamy head with good retention and some great lacing. Aroma of unrefined cereal with some dry notes. Taste is not as pleasant as I had hoped for with notes of unrefined cereals and stale grain. Body is quite full with good carbonation. Not bad but definitely not the best from this fine brewery.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Oct 2009 at 19:20