Cool Beer Saint Andre Vienna Lager / Cool Beer Saint Andre Bohemian Lager

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

Pours a dark amber colour, with a bubbly foamy head, which goes away pretty quickly. Ok lacing. Aromas of malts and wheats. Pretty bitter taste, with some sweet malts and not much more. Tasted better from the bottle and slightly chilled at the time. This one has been in my fridge for a few months so not sure ehat to make of it. Enjoyed them previously from a 6 pack purchased in Toronto, but this bottle not as good.

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

Exchange of bottle with PaleAleRider. Pours an amber colour with a copper hue. The head is big, lightly beige, has good retention and gives out foamy lacing. Malty nose with caramel and mild roasted ones. The taste is a little weird though. First sip is kind of gross, but then, it gets a bit better. Watery caramel malt with hints of nuts in the finish. Seems like they toned down the hop since the last reviews. I taste nothing there. Not one I would have again.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

This is a beer you see everywhere in Toronto, all the beer bars, and a few other places as well. The beer is clear, amber, with a rocky white head. The aroma is sweet malt, and some candied apple flavours. The flavour isn't as sweet as the aroma, but still pretty good. No real hoppish presence in this beer for me.

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

341ml bottle
4.6% ABV
I tried this beer on January 18, 2008 at "Smokeless Joe's" in Toronto. The beer poured a translucent red with a thin white head which disappears quickly. The aroma is malty and grassy. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with low carbonation. The flavour was slightly sweet, a little malt, and a lot of grass!

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

Less sweet and malt pronounced than I expect in a vienna. Poured a light amber from the bottle...white, rocky head that dissipated too fast to a small ring. Heavily carbonated...subdued nose ...bready carapils malts and a wisp of mustiness. Starts sharp and peppery then the carbonation subsides a bit and the body goes weakly silky where the malts are detected...not the malt wallop I expected nor is it reddish like in a Vienna....the malts are slightly attenuated and buried under long boil saaz hops and the hops grab you right to the finish...as they shouldn’t in a Vienna style....the finish is medium but bitter... not too dry but hop pronounced with a nice biscuity undertone and an un-needed metalic after taste. This may be a vienna at heart but the malts have to be more toasty and sweet and come forward and the hops and carbonation have to sit back. Sadly, as much as I'd like to patronize a Canadian brewer, I'd rather take a Dos Equis over this pale, bitter,dry pseudo- vienna. Others have stated that this beer went through changes when it switched brewers....I can’t say, but I do think that this has the potential to be a good Vienna.. IF.. the carbonation was toned down and the malt presence cranked up a knotch with real vienna red malts....not bad but lacking...falls short of being a good example of the Vienna style.

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

I can't beleive this beer is made by Cool as this one is actually pretty good. There's nothing really outstanding about this beer-it really is just a hair above average, and can be hit-or-miss on tap, but a good change of pace for sessioning.