Spark House Red
Lake of Bays Brewing Company in Baysville, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Amber / Red Ale - American Regular|
Score
5.72
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2019 GOLD Ontario Brewing Award WINNER!
Pours with a deep copper, almost reddish-brown hue resembling teak, with an ivory-coloured foam that lingers nicely. The aromatics are all malt – caramel, toffee, roasted grains, darker breads like pumpernickel and rye, and a very slight note of smokiness. The flavours are roasted grain, nutty and toffee with that subtle smoky note. The mouth feel is dry and roasted with moderate bitterness and a well-balanced finish.
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Flaked Wheat, Crystal, Chocolate Malt, and Roast Barley.
Hops: Magnum, Cascade, Saaz.
Ingredients: Water, Malted Barley, Flaked Wheat, Hops, Yeast.
Pours with a deep copper, almost reddish-brown hue resembling teak, with an ivory-coloured foam that lingers nicely. The aromatics are all malt – caramel, toffee, roasted grains, darker breads like pumpernickel and rye, and a very slight note of smokiness. The flavours are roasted grain, nutty and toffee with that subtle smoky note. The mouth feel is dry and roasted with moderate bitterness and a well-balanced finish.
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Flaked Wheat, Crystal, Chocolate Malt, and Roast Barley.
Hops: Magnum, Cascade, Saaz.
Ingredients: Water, Malted Barley, Flaked Wheat, Hops, Yeast.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Quite a dark pour, small off white head. Nice nutty malty aroma. Reminds me alot the malt bill from alot of quebec microbreweries. A tad fruity, with some nice nutiness, and a decent amount of grainy malts, without being sweet. Flavor is quite nice, some light coffee more nuts, good malt bill, mind you very very little hops. The finish though....quite a bitter kick. Nothing mind blowing, but a realy flavorful well made ale. I could consider this a brown ale though.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:34
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Canned. Clear copper colour, mid sized head. Leafy toasty nose. Mid dry with light-medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Toffee, toast and notes of dates. Floral, leafy hops. MId bitter finish. Uncomplicated and easy going.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Mar 2017
at 21:32
2.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1
500mL can, pours a dark red with a small off-white head. Aroma brings out sweet cereal malts, bready notes and a touch of sweet caramel. Flavour is quite nasty, with sickly sweet medicinal notes, vegetal notes, and bready malt. This is really terrible. What the fuck were they thinking? Disgusting.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jul 2016
at 22:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from Loblaws. Clear amber body with a thin off-white head. Steady carbonation. No lacing. Aroma of brown sugar and stewed tea. Flavour of metal, caramel and wood. Thin body with a watery texture. Soft fizz. Nice balance and drinkability.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jun 2016
at 22:18