Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium to dark orange amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt, moderate to heavy maple syrup. Flavour is light heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a long duration, maple, burnt syrup bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120324]
Boutip (9769) reviewed PiLs from Garrison Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured a clear golden color pilsner with a large pure white foamy head with good retention and some good lacing. Aroma of light dry floral notes with some clean cereal notes. Taste is a good mix between some floral notes with light dry hops and some good cereal notes with light grainy aftertaste. Body is about average for style with good carbonation. Well done though you can feel how fragile those pilsner can be since it is already showing some tired signs after being moved across the country.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
(500mL from the LCBO) Pours dark red with a fine particulate suspension and a thin white head that dissipated immediately. Aroma complex, dominated by brown sugar/molasses malts, but with dates, spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice), a bit of spiced rum, quite christmas cake-esque. Flavour is sweet malts up front, a bit of fruitiness, some chocolate, bit of yeasty funk comes up mid-palate and then moderately bitter hops dry down the beer quickly on the finish. Mouthfeel is weak to me, watery in the second half and over-carbonated with a soda-pop feel and a lack of structure and depth on the finish. Just doesn’t live up to the smell for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle from Brewery Creek, Vancouver
Hazy amber color, almost no head. It has a nice aroma of malple syrup and caramel coated nuts. Lean body, dry mouthfeel, caramel flavor with a nutty edge, but also light sourness.
Too much fermentation left no sugar and body to talk about.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle @ Miss January / AA Meeting Afterparty Tasting, March 2012. Pours hazy amber with a small creamy head. Nose is extremely sweet. Maple syrup, caramel and sugar. Flavor likewise. Odd..
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Nice to see a bunch of new Garrison hitting the LCBO. This baltic porter pours a darker brown colour with lots of red highlights. Not much of a head, disappearing quickly and not leaving any lace. Aromas are mild with raisins, plums, chocolate and something sweet, kind of like grape juice. Nice medium-full bodied. Becomes hazy at last pour and smells a bit more balanced at that point. No burning at all (really, this is 9% ABV ??). Taste is not as sweet as one would think. Nicely blended bitterness with the dark fruits and chocolate coming out in the finish. A nice version of the style (as per the description).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Spruce beer, hay ?! I like spruce beer, the pop drink, but this is the first time I try this alcohol version. From the LCBO. Pours a clean dark copper colour with a nice red shine through. Beige head that is frothy, lasting long and creating lots of webbing. At first pour, the smell is on the molasses side with hints of coffee and chocolate. Then, after breathing a bit, the aromas change to notes of caramel, bananas and the spruce way in the back. Quite interesting nose overall. Roasted malt taste remind me of burnt wood, with some dark fruits but that are nicely different with a beautiful dryness to it. All well-balanced with the hop, spruce, cherry-like flavour and bananas. Almost like a cough medicine (that is fortunately good). A very, very interesting brew, that is nice to have one - from time to time.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Dirty Ol' Town from Garrison Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
This has bitterness. Hoppy flavour and a little dark cream on the palate. Smells hoppy with a little alcohol. Some roast malt in the taste Malt has a little bit of a caramelized finish as well. Bottle
mcberko (47456) reviewed Martello Stout from Garrison Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
341mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma of dry roasted malts, oats, and unsweetened dark cocoa. Flavour is less pleasant, with metallic-tinged dry roasted malt, oats and bittersweet cocoa. There is a bitter, metallic finish that lasts quite a while. Pretty simple and with too many flaws, but drinkable.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Spruce Beer from Garrison Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
This beer has some serious character. Taste like I inhaled Banff through a straw. Aftertaste of spruce lasts a long time. Although it’s interesting it’s not something you’d want to drink by the gallon, as the label suggests.