Alexander Keith's Dark Ale

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Keith's must be canning everything these days. Colour - clear muddy brown, tan head. Aroma - roasted nuts. Mouthfeel - thin. Flavour - slightly sweet malts, watered down coffee. Overall - below average.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

I've seen this beer described by the brewery as a stout, as a porter, and as a dark ale. Regardless of how you describe it, it's still quite bad. A dark brown colour with some clarity, topped off with a small thin head. A bit of roasted malt in the nose and the flavour, yet very thin. Quite watery flavour.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Utter crapola in a can. Interesting that Molson goes the porter route with their Rickard's Dark and Labatt's goes the Brown Ale route with their Keith's Dark. The headless brown ale is what I shall call this. There is a weak caramel malt base that isa devoid of any hoppish hints. Flavour? What flavour? Very watered down nutty malt with a hint of sweetness.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

473ml can
4.1%
LCBO Outlet #255 (Milton, Ontario, Canada – Main / Bronte)
February 23, 2011
$2.25
The beer poured a translucent mahogany colour with a short lived bubbly head. The aroma is weak nutty malt, and some hops. The mouthfeel is weak bodied with mild carbonation. The flavour is very similar to a watered down cold coffee.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

OH JOY MORE NEW KEITH’s CRAP ON TAP, WHAT A LUCKY DAY!!! Brew served to me on tap at “The Pint” so cold the glass hurt to touch so I guess I’ll wait a while before drinking. Brew appeared to look exactly like a glass of coke including the complete lack of head. Aroma is very mild to the point its almost not there but there is a sweet nutty roast with coffee like hints, if this was just more bold it would probably be good. Taste is much of the same with bitter coffee showing in the finish. Toasted malts hint of chocolate and a hazelnut all show up from time to time. The beer is very drinkable and clean there is no lingering aftertaste at all this might be because there isn’t almost any flavor, it’s so dam mild. I can tolerate this brew but once again Keith has failed in its attempt to match what Rickards put out (Rickards Dark) and that’s just sad.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4

Came in a can at the LCBO, called "Dark Ale" instead of the word stout, and it is 4.1% ABV instead. I guess they toned it down for the can drinkers. Pours a dark brown-red colour with clear red highlights shining through. Its off-white beige head is big, bubbly-foamy, has good retention and leaves nice lacing all-around. I can hardly smell any roasted malt, just the normal malt they use for their normal brew and some light hop. Pretty watery mouthfeel and boring. Well, at least I can taste a little roasted malt and have some mild coffee, but really a toned down wannabe stout. Feels more like a cheap swill schwarzbier than an ale, just like their IPA is more like a cheap lager. Too bad.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

On tap: Tapped a dark brown small cap, weak lacing. Aroma of roasted grains and sweetness. Weak mouth feel...thin...sweet, far too sweet in an adjunct sweetness bad way...roastyness and coffee tastes are well defined but the weak body and mouth feel combined with the saccharine sweetness fouled this drink for me.