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.

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5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Lots of pie spices, cloves, cinnamon, cardamon. Brown sugar, and slightly roasty malts. Good carb, slightly watery mouth feel. Finish is just a mouthfull of baking spices and its just dominates. The base beer would be decent i think if not for the bag of spice.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:19


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

473ml can from the lcbo. Dark brown pour, with amber hues and an eggshell medium head. Aroma is strong on the smoke. Substantial bacon notes, lots of charred wood, and earthy barrel, and wood. Solid mouth feel, and medium carb. Finish is low on the bitterness with a strong smoky note with some subtle grassy hops. Not bad at all.

Tried from Can on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:18


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

Smells like actual lemonade with some apples and hints of bready malts. Congrats Waterloo on not making another undrinkable fruit beer. This was decent.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:16


2.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 1

Dark brown pour, with a small white head. Aroma is all vanilla. Buts it’s a fake, sickly sweet vanilla coke vanilla. The mouth feel is fine, and th carb is good. The finish is all vanilla coke. Cloying sweet vanilla, no roast, no porter characteristics at all. This is awful.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:13


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

Dark gold color, almost copper, with a big white head. Good cereal aroma, with some wet paper, and some sweet vegetal malts, and light grasses. The body is a little too thick, not as refreshing or quenching and i would expect. The finish is again a tad sweet, but the cereals are decent, but the very full body is distracting.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:10


1.1
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5

A grapefruit radler whos first two ingredients are GRAPE juice, and high fructose corn syrup. Fuck you brick. Garbage. I wish i could give a zero.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:10


2.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 0.5

Fusel alcohol and cloying sweet grains, with some butter to boot. Borderline undrinkable.... Awful.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:46


2.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1

Cloying, vegetal, fusel alcohol, and loads of wet paper. Cheap grains, lots of cloying sugars dominate. The finish has no bitterness and a rough cooked veggies after taste. Yuck.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:40


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Overly sweet pear juice, with some light honey notes. Finish is quite sweet, lacks a dry character that i would enjoy in a quenching perry. Its just overly sweet, and boring.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:38


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

Very similar to the regular cider, but its got a thicker mouthfeel and quite a bit more sugars and sweetness. The apple flavor does seem a little more authentic, and there the honey notes are quite a bit stronger. Not as crisp as i would like with the higher sugar content, but still pleasant.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:38