Four Fathers Brewing Co.

Microbrewery in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

Established in 2015

Contact
125 Guelph Ave, Cambridge, N3C 1A5, Canada
Description
Few concepts are as old as beer and fatherhood. This story starts in 2009 in small town Ontario, with four hockey dads and their four hockey sons. Artist, entrepreneur, corporate exec and maverick, they gathered around a shared love of the hand crafted and authentic, and a vision of producing high quality craft beers that could combine artistry and accessibility. Add a whole lot of time spent together in rinks and on soccer pitches, experimenting over stove tops, planting hops and touring microbreweries around the world, and slowly, things began to brew. That friendship, like our craft beers, is based on a simple formula: stand up 4 each other, stand up 4 something bigger than yourself and stand up 4 the antiquated notion that quality craft beer matters.

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7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Draft at Four Fathers. Pours a clear amber to copper color with a finger of off-white foam that lingers. Honey, bready malt and light soba aromas on the nose. More of the same on the palate. Easy drinking with the honey notes really complimenting the malt and hops. Gets a touch cloying at the end of the pint, but overall enjoyable.

Tried from Draft on 14 Nov 2019 at 06:36


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

Draft at 4 Points hotel in Cambridge. Pours a hazy gold color with 2 fingers of white foam that linger. Tropical fruit forward, slightly dank nose with pear, pineapple, mango and lychee that dominates. Crisp and clean on the palate with more dank, tropical fruit that lingers. Dank finish. Very crushable and delicious hazy session IPA.

Tried from Draft on 14 Nov 2019 at 06:34


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draft at Four Fathers. Pours a deep, chestnut brown to black with a finger of beige foam that lingers, then dissipates. Lovely coffee and toasted toffee aromas on the nose. Smooth and rich dunkel on the palate with light marzipan and toffee aromas. Sweet, but not overly so. Dryish finish with light leafy bitterness. Very solid.

Tried from Draft on 14 Nov 2019 at 06:32


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

Draft at Four Fathers. Pours a clearish gold with a finger of fluffy white foam that lingers. Nice gin forward nose with juniper and lemon and faint cherry aromas. Smooth, crisp and clean on the palate. Vanilla oak flavors with more juniper. Good tartness and light barnyard notes that linger. Enjoyable sour tha doesn't strip the enamel from your teeth.

Tried from Draft on 14 Nov 2019 at 06:30


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

Draft at Four Fathers. Pours a clearish gold with a finger of white foam that lingers. Citrus aromas with pineapple and mango notes. Crisp and clean with good hops. All the lager crushability with nice hops. Dryish finish with more tropical fruit and citrus.

Tried from Draft on 14 Nov 2019 at 06:26


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5

Draft at Four Fathers. Pours a mostly clear gold with almost no head. Lovely tropical fruit aromas with star fruit, citrus, pineapple and gooseberry standing out. Easy drinking but almost no carbonation. Palate has similar flavors, but they are quite muted compared to the nose. Lowish bitterness on the finish, but muted flavors.

Tried from Draft on 14 Nov 2019 at 06:24


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Draft at the 4 Points hotel in Cambridge. Pours a clear dark gold with a finger of white foam. Very bready aroma driven nose with some light leafy hops as it warms. More bready malt, good carbonation. Very nice lager with solid mineral, hoppy and bready character.

Tried from Draft on 14 Nov 2019 at 06:22


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

Draft at Four Fathers. Pours a mostly clear straw gold with a half finger of white foam that dissiapates quickly. Ester-forward nose with banana, cracked wheat and clove dominate the nose. Light and watery on the palate with more clove and banana flavors. Easy drinking with some light peppery, grassy hops to counter the fruity esters. Not bad, but too thin and carbonation is too low to match the German classics.

Tried from Draft on 14 Nov 2019 at 06:20


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Draft at Four Fathers. Pours a pitch black with a finger of beige foam that dissipates. Coffee and light tobacco and leather on the nose. Dry on the palate with dark malt flavors. Bone dry with some more roasted malt notes. Smooth and dry finish....baker's chocolate.

Tried from Draft on 14 Nov 2019 at 06:17


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

Draft at Four Fathers. Pours a clearish gold with a finge of white foam that lingers. Lovely coffee driven nose with cold brew coffee, light vanilla and chocolate notes. Smooth and creamy on the palate like a latte. Lightly sweet, but not cloying. Great coffee flavor throughout with good chocolate notes. Great blonde stout.

Tried from Draft on 14 Nov 2019 at 06:11