Sleeman Original Dark

Brewed by Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. (Sapporo)
Style: Amber Ale
Guelph, Canada

decent dark brown color, ok head metalic nose with some sweet malts. Flavor is dark malts maybe some caremel, not alot of hops .

Pours a merky carmel color with a white foamy head. Aroma of yeast. Taste is a little hoppy and a little watery.

As Sleeman Original Dark 50* Amber Ale. Caramel aroma with herbal notes. Dark amber color with an ephemeral white head. Medium body with mild carbonation. Flavor is caramel with floral hop. Seems well balanced. There is a lot of flavor here. Very nice ale. Finishes decently bitter.

Simply a matter of managing your expectations. If you have one of these in Montreal and expect it to be awful, and you’re angry because Sleeman’s now owns La Maudite and other great Quebecois brews, and even angrier that the bistro sold out on the Chamblay ... then this is not as bad as you expect it to be. Dark color, semi sweet, semi-malted, semi-hopped macro brewery, but without the cheap Budweiser signature of Idaho hops, corn and rice, or whatever. Not good. But not visibly flawed. I actually had two.

Malty and slightly nutty flavor. Hoppy but not too bitter aftertaste. Not bad at all.

pour is copper in color with a hue of orange, little to no head. smell is malts, hops, and a little sweetness. taste is a bit watery, metallic, and a bit of hops, not much of a flavor really, i don’t see where the "dark" is in this one.

Not a bad American dark. This tastes like a macro American beer. Aroma was kind of weak. Could pick up malt and a bit of hops. Pour was a nice dark amber with no head. Taste was very carbonated and not very full. Some hops come in the aftertaste, but while it’s in your mouth its hard to pick up any real flavors. This is a good cook out beer and with the weather we’ve been having this week a cookout is not out of the question.

341 ml, bière moyenne, commerciale, sans envergure, une coche au dessus de bière courante et classique