The Exchange Brewery

Microbrewery in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: The Exchange Brewery

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7 Queen Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake, L0S 1J0, Canada
Description
The Exchange is a new premium brewery and tasting room located in Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Old Town heritage district. Although the town is known as the heart of Ontario’s wine country, it is also the scene of a burgeoning craft-brewing industry. With brewing and agricultural roots that stretch back to the late 1700s, Niagara-on-the-Lake is the perfect home for The Exchange’s approach to brewing, which blends traditional and modern techniques and equipment.

We focus on making exceptional craft beers using only the highest quality ingredients, including local Niagara fruits. Our selection includes a range of American styles along with sour and funky Belgian-style beers and ales.

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6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
A lot of wine in his like a soup kitchen line up. Amber pour with a decent lacin. A slight bretta vibe, but not much here other than wine must. Tap at Bar Hop.
Tried from Draft on 28 Dec 2016 at 09:19

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle - Orange and light grass with some funk and flowery pepper. Cloudy orange gold with a small white head. Peppercorn and soft flowery notes. Very nice.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Dec 2016 at 22:07

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
750mL bottle, pours a cloudy opaque orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out farmhouse yeast, earthy rye, and light spiciness. Flavour is very spicy, with lots of earthiness, farmhouse yeast, and spiciness. Not picking the red wine barrels up. Spicy and earthy. Really well-rounded. Unusual in its spicy and earthy complexity. Delicious.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Dec 2016 at 22:07

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Cloudy, tan. Bubbly head. The first thing that comes off the nose is pretty, and some pale notes. Spicy taste, nice mellow pale malt sweetness, with brett over top of it. You get a little bit of peppery character on the tongue. Rounded, nice sweetness...is that the red wine influence? Might be. I’m liking this one. Almost reminds me of Pipaix brews back in the early 2000s.
Tried on 27 Dec 2016 at 22:04

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
A lightly hazed dark reddish brown ale with no head. In aroma, intense peach pulp, cherries, lactic acid, Brett, nice and complex. In mouth, a superb tart ground cherries with peaches, Epsom salts, light Brett, light lactic notes, very nice and complex. Cask Days 2016.
Tried from Cask on 30 Oct 2016 at 16:58

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
A deep dark stout with a thin brown head. In aroma, sweet fruity chocolate malt with light grassy hops, light vanilla, nice and smooth. In mouth, loads of chocolate and coffee with light grassy hops, light mineral notes, sustained bitterness, nice and pleasant. On tap at Beau’s Oktoberfest 2016.
Tried from Draft on 24 Sep 2016 at 10:37

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from the brewery. Pitch black pour under a one finer slow fading mocha head. Nose has tons of roast coffee, nuts, dark chocolate and some notes of vanilla and flowers. Light molasses sweetness supports a much bigger coffee and chocolate bitterness with definite nuttiness. Mouth is full and creamy with soft carbonation and nice dry finish. Great smooth stout with a big bitter profile. 8+4/7+/4-/16
Tried from Bottle on 27 Jun 2016 at 19:08

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle from the brewery. Slightly hazy orange amber under a slow fading one finger white head that leaves tight lace. Nose is quite dank for a session with citrus, pine and some floral notes with some earthy spice and a light caramel. Light sweet toffee leads to a slightly more pronounced bitterness and light spice. Mouth is slightly thin and sticky with average carbonation and a long lightly bitter finish. 7+/3+/7/3/14
Tried from Bottle on 08 May 2016 at 16:53

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle from the brewery. Cloudy medium+ amber with a small lingering off white head leaving patchy lace. Nose is light roast under a moderate citrus and pine. Even once the head fades the nose is quite muted. Light malt sweetness leads to a decent bitterness but like the nose nothing stands out. Mouth is medium slick with average carbonation and a relatively long finish. Nothing outstanding. 6/3+/7-/3/13
Tried from Bottle on 23 Apr 2016 at 18:48

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle from the brewery. Pitch black with a small tight lingering khaki coloured head. Nice full nose of chocolate, yeast, wood, dark fruit, and candy along with some funk. Taste is only lightly sweet despite the candy on the nose with a medium dark chocolate bitterness and a red wine tartness. Mouth is medium and creamy with a long finish that remains quite tart. Quite interesting. 8/4/8-/3+/15
Tried from Bottle on 17 Apr 2016 at 19:07