Beau's Festivale Plus Sticke
[caption id="attachment_692" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Beau's Festivale Plus Sticke"][/caption] Well, I said it, and I meant it. It's official, Beau's Festivale Plus is available tomorrow, one day only, at a …
ESB - La Vache Folle - Microbrasserie Charlevoix
Charlevoix is another one of those awesome micros from Quebec we're just begining to see here in Ontario, mostly due to the efforts of Ralph and family at Volo and HMH Negotiants. I actually got this bottle from Matt …
Wind & Sale Dark Ale - Barley Days Brewery
Barley days, despite sharing names with my bigger dog (Barley), is a brewery I know little about, and have little experience with. I've had their Harvest Gold Pale Ale at a tasting, and while it was tame, it was …
La Belle Crawl - Schwartz's Deli
Okay, so you may or may not know this, but I'm a vegetarian (strictly speaking, I'm a peskaterian, I eat seafood). But I'm also a trained chef, and a big food geek. As well, I spent a lot of my time in highschool in the …
La Belle Crawl - Dieu du Ciel!
Ummm, okay, here's the thing: Dieu du Ciel!, it's like a beer Mecca. If you don't know, they make a huge variety of incredible beers, lots of Belgian styles, but also heaps of new-school brews, from badass AIPAs to BIPAs …
Pilsner - Mill St Brewery
Another of the brews that Mill St released this summer (or at least pushed), to try to expand the brand back into the "craft" market. Looking at the label is interesting. They've created a "vintage" style label, green …
La Belle Crawl - Beau's All Natural Brewing
[caption id="attachment_635" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Bad picture snapped from my dash while driving"][/caption] After a quick stop in Cornwall or somewhere to buy some Doritos and soda to quell rumbling …
La Belle Crawl - Introduction
Okay, first off, sorry this took so damn long to get to. The evening of this crawl (okay, it was a drive, but whatever), I came down with a crazy fever, caused, it turned out, by an antibiotic-resistant chest infection, …
Cheshire Valley Brewing Co.
In the kind of good news that is just very good, Paul Dickey has announced that The Stinking Rose, the restaurant owned by Church-Key Brewing in Campbellford Ontario, will be pouring the first Keg of Unfiltered ESB from …
Sick sick sick
Hey there all, Just a quick note to say sorry for the silence, I've had one of those infections that have learned how to avoid common passe antibiotics like Amoxicilin, and require those big gnarly ones taht make you …
The Ontario Beer Revolution
Chances are, if you're reading this, you are already part of the Ontario Beer Revolution. Steve Beauchesne, of Beau's All Natural Brewing Co, in Vankleek Hill, posted this article on the Beau's site, after Toronto's …
A beer for quitting time
Steven Slater is my kind of guy. A career flight attendant, who had just nursed his mother through her last days, something he had done for his father before, he knew when to call it quits. After landing at JFK airport …
Look out Sapporo and InBev! Here comes..... Duvel?
I just read on Stephen Beaumont's blog, that De Koninck has been sold, which is good news indeed. The company was feeling the heat of the economy, and was in need of some help. And so they have sold their assets to …
Route des Epices - Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!
So this is another of the bottles my friend Rob brought back from his last visit to Montreal. While he brought back a variety of bottles which I hadn't had before, I had at least heard of all of them, except this one. He …
Betelgeuse - Mill St Brewery
So Mill St has really grown since it's inception, and is now one of the biggest of the "micros" in Ontario. I don't have the numbers, but I imagine most of the beer they sell is Organic and Tankhouse, a lot of which is …
The better-late-then-never trifecta
Phew, life has been crazy. Work, bar stuff, family life, and great weather has filled in all my time in the past few days and weeks. So I'm a little behind on the blog posts. Okay, a lot behind. Two weekends ago, I was …
60% and counting
Nearly days after James from BrewDog confirmed the sale of 12 bottles of 55% beer, called "The End of History", packaged in stuffed dead animals, there's a new biggest beer: "Start the Future", from Holland's 't …
Commemorating an event the right way
So, those of you who follow this type of thing, will likely already have heard that the Okanagan Springs Brewery had a fermenter blow-up. No injuries, but a lot of something that is a bit more then wort, and not quite …
No 8 - Maredsous
Ahhhhh, the benefits of having a friend who makes regular trips to Montreal. My friend Rob brought this for me along with a bottle of St Ambroise Oatmeal Stout from his last trip. I'm already planning on how to get him …
Holy Smoke - Church-Key Brewing
So this is another one of those reveiws of a beer I already know and love. Church-Key Brewing is on the way to Erika's family cottage, and also not far from her cousin's cottage, which we visit often. Just outside the …