I like celebrating my birthday for like, at least a week. Between dinners with family, drinks with friends, drinking crazy and rare bottles of beer, and indulging myself, I find I need at least 5 days, though 9 is better. So I love that Great Lakes stretched their 25th anniversary celebration over the span of […]
Beer Review
Fish-eye P. A. — Kensington Brewing Co.
In a perfect world, every small neighbourhood would have it’s own brewery (or two or three). Historically, beer could only be physically moved a fairly short distance, between freshness (a lack of refrigeration) and the energy required to move a fairly heavy item, it just didn’t make sense. So brewing was a domestic activity, and […]
Winter Beard Double Chocolate Cranberry Stout — Muskoka Brewery
I remember drinking Muskoka Cream Ale at my family’s old cottage outside Bala, in probably 1999-2000. The beer was nice, and I found it so cool that it was made in Bracebridge. Then Muskoka kind of went of my radar. When I got into the craft scene pretty heavy, Muskoka was about to turn over […]
Bog Water — Beau’s All Natural Brewing
I’m actually very shocked I don’t have a review of this one. Beau’s has been making their winter-seasonal, Bog Water, for at least a few years. It’s a beer I look forward to each year, and yet, no review. So let’s start with the 411: Bog Water is a Gruit, which is a very old […]
Pauwel Kwak — Brouwery Bosteels
“…..And you’ll just need you to leave a shoe at the bar”. So you might hear at a bar in Belgium, after being handed a glass of Pauwel Kwak. This is because the beer is traditionally served in a specialty glass, similar in shape to a half-yard, that comes in a little wooden stand (the […]
Paulaner Hefe-Weizen — Paulaner Brauerei GmbH
Know what goes down like magic on a hot summer’s day? A solid wheat beer. Know what goes down like magic on a dreary fall day? A solid wheat beer. Don’t believe me? That’s crazy talk. While most people look to bright, refreshing citrusy wheat beers in the hot weather, there is no reason not […]
BNL Strong Beer — Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery
*** Update*** On release, this beer was called “BNL Imperial Stout”. I’ve left the name in the title for continuity, but it’s the same beer. I grew up in Scarborough, which probably isn’t as bad as you think if you’re not from Scarborough too. But the reality is, growing up there, we didn’t have a […]
Lions Winter Ale — Granville Island Brewing
Bloody hell it’s cold out there. I know we’re still north of 0*C in Toronto, so it’s only going to get colder, but the morning walk with the Beagle down to the beach was a frosty one. And while I’m the first person to defend drinking any style of beer, any time of the year, […]
Rickard’s Oakhouse Winter Lager — Molson-Coors
Well, I’m getting closer to caught up on the review front (so so close!). This one is actually timely! Rickard’s is obviously committed to doing a rotating seasonal beer; Cardigan was the fall seasonal, and now we have Oakhouse, their winter lager. Now, as you might know, oak-aged beers are becoming a kind of big […]
