Northern Breweries Edelbrau

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Well it ain't as good as first thought but it ain't as bad as the second glance. The taste should be better for the aroma; drink this ice cold or it won't be good.

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

This is the last branded beer that exists from the Port Arthur breweries (Kakabeka cream ale being my favorite) taken over by the northern brewing co. from the Sault. It was, and is, pretty much as it always was brewed originally... to compete with Okeefe in the north and steal their "old vienna" sales. This beer is very fair brew for a large volume brewer attempting a Dortmunder helles style lager, which is medium bodied malty-sweet with subdued herbal German hopping, keyed to the Canadian mass palate. This beer has some of those helle lager characteristics but is by no means in the Euro league of viennas or dortmuder-helles. I don’t mind this beer as a change from the local sudz at all. It pours a golden color, good head and fair laceing ... a sweet- malty smell to it. Starts surprisingly light but malty and sits on the palate well with a silky body for a macro brew lager with that sweet malting coming through loud and clear, hersbrucker herbal hopping toned back.... the finish is nice slightly lemmony ( like a good Helles) but the toned back hops leave a slight musty-earthy after taste. The finish is fairly clean but watery. No this isn’t a hearty full character Euro beer....I’m making these characteistics relative to the fact this is a mass produced local beer for northern consumers. Probably the best brew coming from this brewer....and the only Dortmunder-Helles in the Ontraio domestic market...a very pleasant change...try some once in a while..it really is a pleasant break from the sameness of weakly malted Pilsners and sour IPAs we are diluged in here.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

This is beer I discovered a while back because it would look pretty low-budget and white-trash, so my buddy and I thought it would be funny to try. It caught us off guard. Since then, I have been a fan. Poured a golden-yellow colour with a small head. Leaves a bit of lacing in spots. The nose is hoppy. The mouth is of sweet malts, mild hops, with hints of apples (which is what I really like about this brew). The mouthfeel is smooth and kind of dry. One of my favorite plain-old lager.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

pale golden colour, few head, perfumed and floral aroma, fresh with a synthetic nutty aftertaste