Waterloo Brewing Company
Commercial Brewery
in
Kitchener,
Ontario,
Canada 🇨🇦
Owned by
Carlsberg Group International Head Office
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 1984
Contact
400 Bingemans Centre Dr, Kitchener, N2B 3X9, Canada
Description
In 1984, we were the first craft brewers in Ontario. With a dedication to precision, detail and pure ingredients, we were – and still are – making the kind of beer we’d choose to drink ourselves. As Ontario’s first craft brewer, we look back to the past with pride and are excited for the future.
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 ounce can into lager glass, canned on 5/29/2018. Pours crystal clear deep ruby red, light copper/brown color with a 1 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough, toasted biscuit, and nuts; with lighter notes of chocolate, cocoa, coffee, pepper, herbal, grass, and roast/toasted earthiness. A bit of fruity aromas, but not overwhelming. Nice and pleasant aromas with dark/bready/light roasted malts, and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough, toasted biscuit, and nuts; with lighter notes of chocolate, cocoa, coffee, pepper, herbal, grass, and roast/toasted earthiness. Mild herbal, grassy, spicy, roasted bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough, toasted biscuit, nuts, light chocolate, herbal, grass, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts, and light earthy hop flavors; with a solid malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying flavors after the finish. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with no fruity/yeasty notes present. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and slightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is a very nice Euro dark lager. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and pretty refreshing to drink with the mildly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful for the ABV. Very clean and nicely rich malt complexity, with mild earthy hop presence/balance. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Nov 2018
at 22:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Celebrating Bingemans Oktoberfest 50th anniversary and my 50th Waterloo Brewing Company beer. Pours a clean amber colour with a big creamy beige head that stands there for quite a while and leaves creamy lacing. Toasted German malt scent with hints of caramel. Some hops are also felt in the nose, but not tasted. Mildly sweet malt flavours showing cereal grains. Kind of a soft finish. A light dryness comes upon. Not a bad rendition of the style, except for the light hoppy aromas, making this a North American slight-version.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2018
at 04:07
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
16 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 3/8/2018. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy pale golden yellow color with a 2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of huge lightly tart ruby red grapefruit juice, citrus peel/zest, lemon, pear, white grape, red apple, cracker, white bread, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance of fruit juice, moderate pale malt, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of huge lightly tart ruby red grapefruit juice, citrus peel/zest, lemon, pear, white grape, red apple, cracker, white bread, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate fruit tang/tartness; and light herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart ruby red grapefruit juice, citrus peel/zest, lemon, pear, white grape, red apple, cracker, white bread, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Awesome robustness and balance of fruit juice, moderate pale malt, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/tartness balance, and no puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Moderately crisp/clean finishing. Light-moderate increasing dryness from tart/tangy fruit, and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with very smooth, moderately grainy/acidic/tangy, and lightly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 3.1%. Overall this is an awesome radler! All around great robustness and balance of fruit juice, moderate pale malt, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink, with the mellowly acidic/tangy/drying finish. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Amazingly vibrant citrus/fruit juice flavors; with a solid pils malt backbone, and mild earthy hops. A really enjoyable offering, and amazing style example.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Sep 2018
at 00:54
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pounder can, very clear pale yellow. Nose is all grapefruit juice. Taste is also all grapefruit. No bitterness, just good old sweet grapefruit juice. Goes down way too easy. A little bit nervous about the sugar in this one. There, you have it.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Sep 2018
at 19:46
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Can sample at a tasting at troubles' place. Thanks Odi. Clear golden. Graininess, malt, a bit of hops, sweetish, bitterish finish.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jul 2018
at 11:35
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
473ml can. Pours a clear brown with red hue and a small, fizzy, short lived, beige head that dissipates to an outer ring leaving spotty lacing. Sweet aroma of bready malt, caramel, raisin and light nuts. Sweet flavour of roasted malt, dark chocolate, caramel, ash, dark fruit and nuts with a dry, mildly bitter coffee finish. Light to medium body with a watery texture and average carbonation. Pleasant, more of a Dunkel.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jul 2018
at 22:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Originally rated January 2016. Pours a clean deep amber colour with a frothy light-beige head, good retention and some nice creamy-foamy lacing. Wheat aromas giving banana notes with some spices (cloves, nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon). The taste has these spices, but they are well-blended with watery malts. The spices and alcohol slightly warms up the finish which is fine for this one. This one actually works quite well. Not much of a dunkel, but a good spiced beer.
Tried
on 22 May 2018
at 04:10
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Pours a clean golden-peach colour with a big white cap, a pink hue, long lasting, fluffy, almost creamy with spots of lacing. Raspberry nose is pretty present with strawberry, lemon juice hints. You can feel the tart. The taste shows rusty water base with very light berry notes and even milder beer background. Looks great, smells good, but the rest is not really living it up. Too bad they have to add sugar (listed as third ingredient) with all of the fruit juices already added to the beer to make this radler.
Tried
from Can
on 22 May 2018
at 04:05
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can shared in Hackney - big thanks to dave. Pours clear yellow with a small, creamy white head. Great juicy aroma, fresh grapefruit juice, lemon. Light to medium sweet flavour with some white sugar, mild acidity, fresh lemon and grapefruit. Light bodied with average, massaging carbonation. Sugary finish with more grapefruit, a bit of raw sugar, mild tang. Quite solid. Just about sincere!
Tried
from Can
on 22 Feb 2018
at 20:34
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Can split at Bodney Heights, thanks to FLBH via Dave, 22/02/18. Lightly hazed pale golden with a decent off white head. Nose is red grapefruit, blood orange, sweet red citric shizzle. Taste comprises blood orange, red grapefruit, sweet licks, grass, redcurrant jelly, lemonade. Light bodied, fine carbonation, sweet close. Decent radler ... a touch overly sweet but a solid flavour profile.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Feb 2018
at 20:33