4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pours flat, murky med brown. No head. Aroma like cold coffee, maybe s bit nutty. Sweetish, nutty, pretty bland and not a lot of nuance.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2014
at 14:31
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
500ml bottle from the LCBO. Pours a very dark reddish brown with a tiny tan head. Nose is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee and dark fruit. Flavour is much more subdued than the nose but still has some sweet chocolate and bitter coffee but also some burnt cereal. Mouth seems quite thin and watery with soft carbonation. Interesting but not something I would do regularly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2014
at 16:29
6/10
A deep dark stout with a very thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet chocolate malt with dark fruits and light mineral notes. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity chocolate malt with dark fruits, light mineral notes, light bodied. Bottle from 2014.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2014
at 18:16
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
These Black Creeks are getting a little better, a little more interesting. Half smoked, half roast in the taste with some peat or something in taste. Some malt some hops. Average carbonation. Pours dark brown, Finishes bitter and sweet with some caramel malt. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2013
at 20:20
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from LCBO. Pours a deep amber with no head to speak of. Nose is almost exclusively caramel and toffee with a hint of grass. Very little of the rye promised on the label comes through. Taste is very sweet. Medium body with a watery flat feel. Some bitterness does finally show up in the finish. Maybe the flatness was a bad bottle. Might have to try another.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2013
at 19:13
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
A dark reddish brown ale with a thin big bubbled mocha head. In aroma, a sweet nutty malt with light herbal hops, and a bit of boiled veggies. In mouth, a nutty malt with light metallic notes, herbal hops and beany character, so-so. Boring...must have been a drag for the Riflemen....
Tried
on 17 Jun 2013
at 14:40
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Single brown bottle from the LCBO. Pours a deep amber colour with a frothy off-white head, great retention and creamy lacing. Was expecting a rye nose, but no, as strong butterscotch smell (reminding me of Steelback brews) with hints of nuts and light grass. Wet, boring mouthfeel that starts off the taste kind of bland and watery. Then, some nice grass kicks in a bit, adding some light bitterness and dryness. I guess the butterscotch I get from this brew, is the combination of lots of caramel malt and butter (diacetyl), which makes me think, this brew should not be like this, but much better. Beautiful looking beer though. Where’s the rye ?
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2013
at 22:16
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Found in Ottawa. Somewhere. Pours with a pitch-brown body and a modest head on top, foggy, little visible carbonation. Aroma is wet barley and mash, like a maltina non-alc, certainly not encouraging. Flavour is a spicy barley mix, no complexity, simple barley water with a hint of pizzazz on the back end. Sadly there’s no complexity to this, just a watery pile of barley, but nonetheless still drinkable.
Tried
on 05 May 2013
at 18:33
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle: Poured a clear medium brown color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and minimal lacing. Aroma consists of dry caramel malt with light grainy notes. Taste is also dominated by some dry caramel malt with some notes of grainy cereal. Body is about average with good carbonation. Run of the mill brown ale with dry cereal notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2013
at 07:33
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(bottle) clear brown colour with a small brown head; aromas of vanilla, roast; dry, pleasant flavour with a long light bitter finish; thin palate; more like a dry stout than a brown ale; nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2013
at 16:04