Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) Canuck Pale Ale

Canuck Pale Ale

 

Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
Score
6.81
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 35 Ticks: 48
The minute you crack your can, aroma of grapefruit, mango and pine hit you in the face; like a beaver slapping his tail on a pristine small body of water in Ontario. Canuck pours a deep gold, bordering on burnt orange that produces a tight snowy white toque. Take one last nose before getting into the liquid, which you’ll soon find will be hard to put down. Soft carbonation leads into a sweet honeyish start before it gives way to more grapefruit, tropical citrus, canned peaches and pine. Light to medium body with a very dry finish. Drink at your local pub, in the fish hut, campground, the beach, in a canoe (responsibly), playing shinny, on a log…actually, anywhere north of the 49th.
 

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3.7
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 15

Is it cheating to make a solid, refreshing IPA, and then call it a pale ale to make it even more impressive? Refreshing and fresh hop profile plays bigger than the listed 35 ibu. Bready malt and a touch of soapiness round it out, with strong effervescence adding to the drinkability.

Tried on 23 Sep 2025 at 20:13


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap at volo.
The aroma coming off this cask was incredible.
Amazing juicy citrucy aromas. Every citrus fruit imaginable is in here somehwere. Good solid malting keeping the mouthfeel and bitterness in check and light enough to make this a solid drinking beer. Refreshing, and exploding with flavor. A really great beer.
Earlier Rating: 2/16/2010 Total Score: 3.8
650ml from the lcbo. Amber pour with a fluffy white head. I’m seeing alot of people talking about a buttery diacetyl aroma and flavor but I’m not getting any. I guess I got lucky. A great citrus aroma with some juicy hops and a slight caramel maltiness. Quite bitter in the finish but the hops are really nice with some great citrus notes. I’m really quite impressed.

Tried from Draft on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:31


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pale colour and it's bright. Hoppy aroma. Bitter, grapefruity palate, but with good balancing malt.

Tried on 03 Oct 2024 at 04:08


7.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pine, grapefruit peel, and biscuit malt aroma. Golden yellow with large white head. Moderately sweet lemon-lime-orange, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter grapefruit peel and pine flavor. Good body.

Tried from Can on 15 Sep 2024 at 01:16


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Ordentliches Pale Ale mit der nötigen Harzigkeit im Abgang. Grapefruit im Geschmack, ordentlich bitter, hinten trocken. Das passt.

Tried on 15 Jul 2023 at 22:25


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Tight white foamy head stayed on hazy golden coloured body. Pithy citrus aroma. Medium bodied, sharp & cloying. Citrus, pine, marmalade, & hoppy tastes with an extremely bitter finish. Deece!

Tried on 15 Jun 2023 at 19:02


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

Taster at the brewery. Clear, gold colored. AROMA- citrusy, apple, white currant, gooseberry. FLAVOR- neutral, moderately bitter, fruity again, pine, floral. Medium bodied. Tasty.

Tried on 05 Oct 2022 at 17:46


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

473ml can. Pours a hazy orange-gold with a medium, foamy, long lasting, white head that leaves soapy lacing. Sweet fruity aroma of caramel malt, grapefruit, orange peel, mango, peach and floral hops. Sweet fruity flavour of caramel malt, grapefruit peel, orange, peach, pine resin and earthy yeast in a dry, bitter grass finish. Light to medium body with an oily texture and average carbonation. Well balanced.

Tried from Can on 13 Oct 2021 at 05:18


6

Citrus, grainy, herbal hops, spicy

Tried on 27 Jul 2019 at 14:34


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

Tap at Bar Hop, Toronto. Pale amber colour, small white head and lace. Pale malty, even a bit grainy aroma. Light-bodied. Pale malty, quite watery, spicey hops in the finish. Standard.

Tried from Draft on 15 Mar 2019 at 20:26