solidfunk (21946) reviewed Trailhead Lager from Wellington Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Smells like sugar water, slight sweetness. Pours golden with a small fizzy head. A kind of clingy weird palate that sticks to your mouth in the wrong kind of way. On tap at teds collision.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Arkell Best Bitter from Wellington Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Aroma has a little caramel sweet malt to it, but nothing overly indulgent here. Taste is metallic, tinny. A vague bitterness appropriate for the style ’bitter.’Decent head retention - it looks alight with a dark amber. Ends in some sourness. Tall can.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can: Poured a clear medium brown color ale with a medium size foamy head with OK retention and some lacing. Aroma of grainy malt with light dry caramel notes with some funky and lightly citrusy hops notes. Taste is a weird mix between some unrefined grainy cereal notes and some stale hoppy notes with light citrus undertones. Body is about average with good carbonation. I either got a bad can of this or maybe it just didn’t fit my style but I though the hops were stale and lacking and the malt base used wasn’t the greatest.
Metalchopz (7978) reviewed Special Pale Ale from Wellington Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Originally rated June 2004. This beer is now called "Wellington Special Pale Ale" (formerly Special Cream Pale Ale). Wellington has just change their labels... but this pale ale is still creamy. Beautiful amber colour, it’s nice foamy head is long lasting (especially for this type of style). Good amount of lacing. Aromas of caramel and hops. Full body flavour with mild bitterness, and a smooth finish. Very tight small bubble carbonation. Still, a creamy thin head is left at the end. Great 4.5% ABV pale ale.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Originally rated June 2004. Second Wellington beer tested tonight. Good, it’s quite different from the "Special Pale Ale". Light amber in colour with a small disappearing head. I can smell green apples. Tastes mildly bitter, not as much as expected, and with hints of those apples. Pretty damn good.
Metalchopz (7978) reviewed Trailhead Lager from Wellington Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Originally rated August 2004. European style lager, craft brewed for the smoothness" is written on the bottle. Pours a golden colour with a good white head, and a great amount of lacing. Low on carbonation and a malt scent. Mildly bitter with a sweet (caramel) aftertaste in the back of the tongue. Wellington’s least good brew, but still a good summer beer.
Metalchopz (7978) reviewed Beehive Lager from Wellington Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Originally rated September 2004. Second honey lager review (for a Ontario, Canada brew) for tonight. Poured a golden colour with a head that dissipated quite quickly. Could smell aromas of sweetness and grass. Lightly carbonated compared to the Lakeport version. Medium sweet taste of honey to start with, and then has a dry finish. This beer is now called Beehive. This is part of there lower brand selection (with the other being Trailhead lager). The rest of their beers are higher standard, and rock over this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Originally rated December 2004. This is the last brew to review from Wellington’s fine brewery. Poured a deep brown-orange colour with red highlights and a nice tanned creamy head. Beautiful lacing was left behind. The aroma seemed very sour with a mix of chocolat. The taste was very well balanced between the sweet chocolat-toffee and the bitterness. Lots of fruits were found in the mouth. Pretty darn good !
Deanf (9781) reviewed County Brown Ale from Wellington Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Aroma of wet barley and garbage. Has a black water body with small head. Flavour is garbage and coffee- or perhaps more like coffee that’s been found in garbage. Weak finish. This one is unbalanced and needs some work.
Deanf (9781) reviewed Trailhead Lager from Wellington Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Another day, another lager.... I often wonder about the appeal of a microbrewer making another lager in this world. Unless you’re convinced you can create the most spectacular lager in the universe, why bother? There are so many other kinds of under-attempted beers out there! Unless you have an obsessed regional following that you can get away with it, it seems like such a waste of time. Yet still I’m intrigued to know if this lager will be "the one" that blows the rest away. Poured into a lager glass at 5.0 celsius it has a pale bright yellow body and barely any head on top. Soft corn and sugar aroma. The flavour is a very light mix of corn and malt with a dry finish. Very light and easy to drink, hard to pick out of a crowd. And so, the quest continues.....