Brick Amber Dry

Formerly brewed at Brick Brewing Company
Style: Pale Lager
Waterloo, Canada

I loved this beer, I really did. I was in University when I first tried this. I was a slave to the mainstream breweries when this happened in my glass. To me, the aroma is fruity in nature, which made me skeptical from the beginning. Being colour blind, I will not comment on colour aside from saying it isn’t dark, nor is it light. As for the flavour, I love it. It has a full flavour not found in a lot of mainstream beer.

Smells like a decent, tame Micro somethingorother. Drinking it makes my palate scrapingly dry, like some beers I drank in the eighties. I’m down with the mentions of butterscotch, graininess and I will add lack of hop personality - it is an odd package that,as tupalev says does have flavor.Too light body and veers into Macro territory with the feel and aftertaste. Is there corn that makes it rather Labbatt Blue-like? Bring on the Craft Brewers Alliance B-S, I was expecting it. And now... for the silly 200th rating music...

Bottle at the Rhino. Medium yellow, very small white head, a few streaming bubbles. Sweet malt, grainy aroma - not terribly pleasant. Sweet malt taste but incredibly light body. Weird grainy taste. Not very good - very thin - but there is some flavour.

Bottle from the LCBO-341 ml sample- Amber body with a fluffy white head. A weak aroma promises slight caramel, malt sweetness, and a smidgen of hops. Watery caramel flavours are paired up with mild hops bitterness and hay. Decent level of carbonation make this an easy drinker, a good lawnmower beer, and not much else.

bottle. LCBO singles bin. pale golden-copper body with a large white head that shortly diminishes into a small ring. pungent aroma, oh this should be a treat. light butterscotch notes. the flavour isn’t quite as offensive as the aroma suggests - though there really isn’t anything interesting to say. soft carbonation, sweet honey and caramel. not completely awful.

Bottle (341ml, clear). *My bottle says "Brick Amber", which I cannot find on the site, so I’m putting the rating here* Poured a plae gold, big fast-dropping white foamy head. Aroma - skunk! I can’t smell anything else, wow that’s bad, but I’m rating it because they are stupid enough to use clear bottles. Tastes skunky, but also sweet malt, stale grains. Weak mouthfeel. Guh.

starts sticky malty thin, and then drying finish and aftertaste. I have had worse macros, but this is a slightly more amber looking pale lager.

It’s amber and it shares a lot in common with it’s fellow Canadian lagers in that they are poor representations of beer. Shameful!