The Exchange Brewery
Microbrewery
in Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ontario,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: The Exchange Brewery
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.
Lameth (4904) reviewed Brettbier from The Exchange Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
I feel funky! Nice tart and funky fruits, spicy. Nice vineous-acidic flavors combined with the funky brett.
Lameth (4904) reviewed Spontaneous Ale from The Exchange Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Clear golden color and a white head. Sweet vinous-acidic nose. Tart, sour, apples, acidic, pepper, tannine. But at least a rather short finish.
Dandeman (2743) reviewed Cerise from The Exchange Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Funky, tangy olfactory, with cherries prominently. Perceived woody notes. Acid but sweet aromatic profile. The liquid is orange pink and is covered with a white moss with a pink complexion, quite creamy and rather persistent. Cherries occupy most of the taste palette, supported by a woody background and a slight heat of alcohol. The funky is soft with some notes of old farm with ammonia tips that are not a defect but are an integral part of the funky. Carbonation and body are moderately low with a rather creamy texture. The taste of alcohol is rather low but its heat is well felt. A beer better than its rating indicates. A more appropriate ranking in wild or funky beers would have been more advantageous. Olfactif funky, acidulé, avec les cerises en évidence. Notes de boisé perçues. Profil aromatique acidulé mais doux. Le liquide est rosé orangé et se couvre d’une mousse blanche au teint rosé, assez crémeuse et plutôt persistante. En bouche, les cerises occupent la majeure partie de la palette gustative, soutenues par un fond de boisé et une légère chaleur d’alcool. Le funky est doux avec quelques notes de vieille ferme relevant des pointes d’ammoniac qui ne constituent pas ici un défaut mais font partie intégrante du funky. La carbonatation et la corpulence sont moyennement faibles sur une texture quand même assez onctueuse. Le gout d’alcool est plutôt faible mais sa chaleur se fait bien sentir. Une bière meilleure que sa note ne l’indique. Un classement plus approprié dans les bières sauvages ou funky lui aurait été plus avantageux.
Metalchopz (8073) reviewed Cerise from The Exchange Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
After having their Blueberry Pi which was a wild ale, was expecting some sourness as cherry and sour go well together. Nope. Noticed it had multiple hops, but was not expecting hoppiness with the fruit. Hazy red-amber colour with a bigger frothy head, pinkish-amber coloured with decent retention and nice thick foamy lacing. Mild cherry notes, not too sweet, with some orange notes from the hops. The taste is hoppy before fruity. Bitter, fairly dry. Yeah, was not expecting this, but a little better than the Blueberry Pi.
Metalchopz (8073) reviewed Blueberry Pi from The Exchange Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Fizzy red-purple head that disappears rather quickly, leaving not much lace, but a little unfiltered film on the glass. Murky red-purple coloured. Aromas are Bretty with the wild ale culture showing some earthiness, blended with the blueberries and hints of other berries - even cherries. The mouthfeel shows some sourness, fairly thin overall with a little dryness. Really does not feel like a 7% ABV. The fruit is nicely balanced for those who do not like fruity beer (but I do). An easy-drinking blueberry wild ale.
Tessic (2387) reviewed 2 Amber Ale from The Exchange Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
This amber poured a hazy, beautiful, reddish amber colour with a creamy, off white head. Nice lacing. Scents include caramel and biscuit. First swig was delicious. Flavours of toffee, biscuit and light hops. Finish is nice and malty with those delicious caramel flavours lingering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
This might be my first can from this brewery, as they normally come in these nice dark bottles. Pours a hazy golden-amber colour with some particles running through it. The head is big, frothy, bubbly, creamy, warm off-white coloured with good retention and lacing. Some tropical fruits in the aromas with the citrus notes, honey and mild sweet malts. The taste is just above average bitter with some oranges, and its peel lingering a little. Not super juicy and with a dry finish, not really a NEIPA, but a very good IPA all-around.
Helsdon (1072) reviewed Blueberry Pi from The Exchange Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Sweet flat doughiness up front with blueberries. Then mild sour tang, that descends quickly into an....cheesy oatmeal mush? Not a winner.
Helsdon (1072) reviewed Belgian Stout from The Exchange Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Not sure what's going on here. Nice sour tang giving off raspberry, and blackberry. But the finish is coming up an ashy stout mixed in I don't love. Wrong malts?
Helsdon (1072) reviewed Peach Pi from The Exchange Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cloudy golden. Taste solid Bretty sour, with some aserbic. Peach is waaaay in the back with a hay malts.