I’m usually a craft brew connoisseur but if one beer had to be the dark horse of this Newfoundland tour, it made sense that the brew would be Black Horse. Not a craft at all, but a Molson Coors brew which is apparently brewed only in Newfoundland and Labrador, which is perhaps its only discerning feature.
True confession, as opposed to the other kind which we here far too many of. “I didn’t inhale” is a classic.* Way back in the day my go to brew was Canadian. Like so many impressionable young fellas back then it was my way of being patriotic. Fast forward 50 years and now being patriotic to me is an evening at the Legion. But it’s been a while since I indulged (if that is the right word in this case) in a Molson’s product.**
A golden pour, and just like me it had a full head of steam. Mild malt aroma, basic beer nose. First swig starts out with a flat malt fizz, a very standard lackadaisical lager, with nothing on the backend. It evolved a bit with some slight ale bitters coming through on the finish. It is turning into a dry slightly bitter crisp flat finish with a mediocre malt body, a “premium” lager borderline pallid pilsner.
I guess I’m being a bit hard on my old go to but I was hoping for something more, something special, something to write home about. Anything. Black Horse is a standard run of the mill big brewer lager. It’s beers like this that make the craft beer industry what it is today, that being better.
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