Dark
Waterloo Brewing Company in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular|
Score
5.84
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Since 1984, our award-winning dark lager has embodied everything we stand for as Ontario’s first craft brewer. Created under our principles of quality and craftsmanship, this light-tasting dark lager delivers flavours of roasted malt with smooth cocoa notes.
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4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
It’s high in carbonation and not bitter like a schwarzbier should be, but there’s not much of anything else going on in this one. My can says it’s from the Waterloo Brewing Co. May have changed names... tall can poured into a glass
Tried
from Can
on 30 Aug 2011
at 18:22
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 6
Originally rated September 2006. This cheap schwarzbier pours a dark red-brown colour with a good creamy tanned head that has decent retention and nice thick lacing. The carbonation is quite active with tiny bubbles. The scent is mild with malt at first, then turns into a mix of roasted malt and not-so-good sourness. Smooth mouthfeel with a slight crispiness to it. The taste is mild too, with some little molasse very well-hidden and some corn. Overall, it is one of the better brews from Brick Brewing, but for the style, I much prefer the Kostritzer and the Escousse. This is a dark lager to be enjoyed from the bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2011
at 22:11
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Can. Reddish dark brown color with small foamy tan head, no specific aroma, slightly sour, stale metallic taste, mild carbonation, abrupt finish. Disappointingly tasteless beer. Though the beer is listed under Brick Brewing Co and found under the website, Waterloo Brewing Co is put on the can as the producer.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jul 2011
at 19:13
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
473nl can shared with friends who’s just been to Canada. thin white head. Nice dark pour.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jul 2011
at 08:12
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bouteille 341ml, courtoisie de SlovakSniper. De couleur brune foncée et claire. Nez de grains de malt sucrés et légèrement rôtis avec des notes de houblon herbeux ainsi qu’avec des traces de fumée de bois et de chocolat. Mince-moyenne en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture très légèrement crémeuse et aux petites notes huileuses. Goût de grains de malt sucrés avec des traces de fumée lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute rapidement un léger goût de malt rôti avec des petites notes brûlées puis en finale l’on retrouve une très légère amertume de houblon herbeux. Post-goût moyen-court, légèrement amer de rôti avec des petites notes de houblon herbeux.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2010
at 19:24
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Deep dark coloured body with a mild ruby tint and a very thin tan head. Aroma of mild malt, cardboard, yeast and a little bit of sugar. Light-bodied; Strong cardboard and sugar flavours with not much else but funky malt and water. Aftertaste shows just about nothing, perhaps cardboard and some sugars. Overall, a pretty bad beer - I don’t see much premium about this, but it was nice to at least try it. I sampled this 473 mL can purchased from the LCBO (Summerhill) in Toronto, Ontario on 11-October-2009 sampled from home in Washington on 06-November-2009.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Nov 2009
at 00:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
16oz can bought in Toronto. Dark brown, slight red to orange tint. Tall beige head. Somewhat sweet dark malt aroma, lots of caramel, some chocolate, rather simple, but straightforward and not bad. Between a dunkel and Schwarz. Simple dark malt flavor, caramel, chocolate, sweet, but slightly bready and biscuity. Not all that exciting but pleasant to drink. Rather light in body. Nice enough but not very interesting.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Sep 2008
at 04:50
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle: Poured a clear above average brown color lager with a large foamy head with good retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of lightly sweet caramel malt. Taste is also dominated by lightly sweet malt note. Definitely too thin for the style with some average carbonation. Refreshing but a bit thin and lacing some flavour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2008
at 10:20
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Yet another 473 mL can from matt7215. You rock! A little bit of a gusher. Ruby brown pour with a a large, frothy, quickly receding head. But, to catch the gushing I had to pour pretty vigorously. Nice lacing. Head has a nice... SOUND... snap, crackle, pop! Slightly bitter roasted malt aroma. Roasted malt taste with hints of coffee and soap. A little watery.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jun 2008
at 23:37
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Brown bottle, 341 ml, savoured on April 16 2007; eye: deep burgundy, clear, no effervescence, no head; nose: roasted malt, chocolate; mouth: creamy texture, roasted malt, light cocoa, finale in roasted malt with a hint of chocolate, medium body, a bit thin, average carbonation, lightly sweet and bitter, tastes and odours are choked off because the beer is way too cold; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 341 ml, savourée le 16 avril 2007; oeil : bourgogne foncé, claire, pas d’effervescence, pas de mousse; nez : malt torréfié, chocolat; bouche : texture crémeuse, malt rôti, léger cacao, finale en malt torréfié avec une pointe de chocolat, corps moyen, un peu mince, carbonatation moyenne, légèrement sucrée et amère, saveurs et odeurs étouffés car la bière est bien trop froide; en résumé : ordinaire
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2007
at 15:32