Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co.
Commercial Brewery
in
Guelph,
Ontario,
Canada 🇨🇦
Owned by
Sapporo Breweries
Established in 1834
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Description
We’ve always relied on our wits to give us an edge. We tried things others wouldn’t and refused to let being smaller keep us from thinking big. To become masters of our craft, we had to be pretty darned crafty. This spirit is at the heart of everything we do—and in every drop we brew.
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Strange aroma of grass hop and malt and honey? Clear amber color with a respectable white head. Starts medium bodied with a hint of honey, kind of frothy carbonation, moves on to brown malt flavor, finishing lightly sweet, with brown and maybe a hint of hop. Not well balanced, but how many lagers really are? As many as Imperial IPAs? Worth a try if heavier lagers are your thing.
Tried
on 04 Jun 2007
at 22:04
5.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
golden ruby, sweet aroma, sweet light malt with a little rich fruityness, but a little clawing in palate, with a drying bitterness
Tried
on 01 May 2007
at 01:23
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Can: Poured a golden color ale with a huge foamy head with better then average retention. Aroma of light semi-sweet malt with no discernable hops presence. Taste is also dominated by somewhat refreshing semi-sweet malt. No noticeable extract or adjunct was noticeable which is already a good start from a somewhat shady brewer. Overall, I thought this was a refreshing beer but still lacking in character to make me want and seek this again.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Apr 2007
at 12:51
5.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Creamy malt and light hops aroma. Orange-amber color with moderate head. Sour malt, hay flavor with moderate hops finish. Nicely drinkable but nothing special.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2007
at 18:46
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Sour milk malt aroma. Dark amber color with small head. Sour malt and light grassy hops flavor. A better than average lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2007
at 17:44
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 4
Sparkling amber,small fast fading beige head. Typical Sleeman salty skunked nose.Light metallic neutral taste. Faintly hopped
Tried
on 30 Mar 2007
at 19:15
5.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Slightly sweet barley malt aroma. Medium yellow with moderate head and nice lacing. Sligthly sweet malt flavor up front with mild sour finish. Light body. A standard cream ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2007
at 17:56
1.9/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 0.5
Rockman, never seen it before. Must be one of those strong ale imitators, that we, over here we call malt liquors. Big bombing $1 - 24 oz can, tall gold and proud. My can says LA Cross Wisconsin 54601, not Ontario Canada. High gravity means there is a grave situation that needs addressed? Pop the lid and you get a whiff of alcohol and a slight hint of sweet fruit. I was expecting something very clear but this is almost as hazy as a american hefeweizen. Hazy yellow but not bright yellow, more like a yellow with hint of brown. Nice streams of carbonation in there. Head is just froth and the color of the foam is off white. Taste is strong and alky, almost as if they just added the alcohol after it was brewed. Palate is good with the carbonation, it certainly is not flat. This is very difficult to enjoy as beer. This seems to have one purpose, to catch you the big buzz. Although the alcohol is really strong like many very strong ales, the finish is quite different. Very strong ales have a hop or malt bitterness that lingers for minutes on end. This brew just plain linger alky, hardly any hops or malt flavors at all. This is more difficult to drink than Steel Reserve 211 High Gravity. It seems to be on par or slightly worse than hurricane high gravity. I am concerned this may fold over and ruin what is left of my beer tasting buds. The term "High Gravity" is sometimes ascribed to the idea that high-alcohol beer makes you fall down, but in fact refers to the increased specific gravity of the wort used to produce high-alcohol beer. Well in this case, I think you’ll fall down but not as quickly as some ales I’ve had with higher alky content. Some of those ales tasted just as bad. Many of the high alky ales also have that repulsive alky taste on the palate. Finish is medicine like, but you may not notice the repugnantness of the situation as you near the bottom of the can. The aroma and appearance of this beer is the only thing that saves it from being below a one.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Feb 2007
at 15:38
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle: Poured a light brown color ale with a small foamy head with minimal retention. Aroma of scotch and malt with some very very light smoke. Taste of light scotch malt with almost no smoke. The body is way too watery for the style with some low carbonation. I was expecting worst considering the brewer but by no mean is this a bad beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2007
at 08:55
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Golden beer with a strong head. The aroma is dry and quite malty and the flavour is dry and quite floral with a whisky like finish. Overall quite a palatable drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2007
at 14:33