The Black Lager
Silversmith Brewing Company in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Lager - Schwarzbier / Black Lager Regular|
Score
6.77
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DARK & CRISP | Pours an opaque dark brown colour with a creamy tan head. Balanced flavours of toasted malt, chocolate, and coffee. Medium-bodied on the palate with a crisp and clean finish. Pairs well with hearty meats, BBQ, sausage, and those “treat-yourself moments.”
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
473mL can, pours a deep dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma has toasted malt, earthy roast, and some bready crusts. Flavour is dry, with toasted malt, dry crusty bread, and some earthiness. Dry, earthy, clean. It’s fine, nothing interesting.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Feb 2026
at 03:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Dark brown, the aroma is a bit toasty. Medium body, with an off-dry finish. A little bit of sugar, and more of a toasty note.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Feb 2026
at 03:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Poured from 473mL can (pkg July 09, 2025; thanks mom). Dark brown with small beige head. Simple and roasty. Above average.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Feb 2026
at 03:49
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
473mL can. Pours dark brown with a small light beige head. Toasted nuts and dry malts on the nose. Flavour has limp, but dry and toasty malts and some nuts. It's a bit of a non-event.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Feb 2026
at 23:57
7/10
Roasty AF
Tried
from Can
on 04 Sep 2025
at 23:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black pour, beige head. Sweet roast aroma, milk chocolate, light hops. Good mouth feel, silky, soft carb. Sweet roasty finish, light bitterness, very easy drinking.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:57
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Molasses, chocolate malt, and hay aroma. Black with large brown head. Moderately sweet smoky chocolate malt, and mildly bitter dry hay and ash flavor. Good body. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Oct 2024
at 00:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at the brewpub.
Tried
on 29 Aug 2022
at 15:48
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jan 2022
at 18:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
650ml bottle [another generous souvenir from the TVs - thanks for it and in memoriam VM]. Jet black colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Roasty, dark malty aroma, hints of coffee, cold coffee, burnt coffee, hoppy overtones with a minimally rusty, metallic touch. TAste is bitter, slightly grassy and minimally metallic hoppy, bitter roasty dark malty, notes of burnt coffee, cold coffee, a touch of rust; lingering bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2018
at 09:11