Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Spearhead Brewing
This week, Fred and Chris are joined by Dimitri van Kampen, of Spearhead Brewing, and he's brought some cool beers: Hawaiian-style Pale Ale, Morrocan Brown Ale and Big Kahuna Double IPA. Check it out below.
Friday Beer Break With Fearless Fed — Sawdust City Barrel-aged Ol' Woody
This week on the old beer break, Fred and I got into FOUR different bottles from Sawdust City. They are presenting their Ol' Woody Alt at Toronto Festival of Beer in a barrel-aged demo. So they've aged their excellent …
Crazy Canuck Pale Ale — Great Lakes Brewery
Well here's (I think) a TorontoBeerBlog.com first: I'm re-reviewing a beer. Actually it's really not that big a deal, particularly when the beer in question is Crazy Canuck Pale Ale, and the people who make it is Great …
Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Alexander Keith's Hop Series
In today's episode, Fred and his faithful sidekick venture into bigger waters, and sample the Alexander Keith's Hop Series Ales; both the Cascade and Hallertau varieties. Listen live every Friday between 4:30-5pm and …
Wizard Wolf Session Ale — Bellwoods Brewery
If you've ever asked me about beers and quality, one thing that I will often bang on about, is that fresh is best (at least in most cases). So when I dropped by Bellwoods Brewery this morning to chat about some summer …
Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Left Field Brewery
Chilling with Fred, and drinking both Eephus and 6-4-3 IIPA from our friends at Left Field Brewery. About The Brewery Know that feeling you get on opening day, after a walk-off home run or a suspenseful no-hitter? That’s …
Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Beer Academy Maibock
Very happy to be back doing a weekly beer break with my friend "Fearless" Fred at 102.1 The Edge. For our first week back, we drank some excellent Maibock from the crew at The Beer Academy.
My Summer Beer List — Week One — Wheat Beer
[caption id="attachment_2142" align="alignright" width="336"] Robson Street Hefeweizen - Granville Island Brewery[/caption] As the weather warms up, every beer blogger and their cousins are compiling lists of their …
Brewmance Episode 4: The Great Outdoors
This month on Brewmance, Mark and I are joined by Aaron Spinney from Sawdust City Brewing Co. and we make a Belgian-style Golden Ale with Earl Grey Tea and mangoes! First outdoors brew of the year for me, too! It was a …
Fruit Stand Watermelon Wheat Ale — Kensington Brewing Co
There are a lot of beers out there with fruit in them. To start with, the myriad lite lime type things that seem to have endless marketing budgets. There are also more than a few pleasing beers made in Canada with things …
Maverick and Gose — Amsterdam Brewing Co and Great Lakes Brewery
You might recall a few weeks back I wrote about how Maverick and Gose was about to become the first all-Ontario collaboration to hit the LCBO. Well, after the usual LCBO bureaucratic hiccup, it is rolling out! If you …
Rickard's Shandy — Molson-Coors Canada
Years ago, I was sitting at Castro's, with a dear friend of mine named Christian. Christian is German. This is important to the story, trust me. At the time his English was fairly good, but occasionally, he would stumble …
The Loose Moose, Toronto
"The Mississippi Delta, is shining like a national guitar/ I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the civil war..." Picture this: you were part of one of the most popular duos of your generation. …
Fracture Double IPA — Amsterdam Brewing Co.
I love hops, and I hope you do too. In fact, I have three hop plants on order from Toronto Brewing as we speak. I also have a hop vine at my mother's house. So, you would assume that I was a pretty big hop head. Give me …
Lady Stavoren Wheat Wine — Amsterdam Brewing Co.
It's always nice when I'm handed a beer, that is a style I'm not familiar with. I admit, it happens less these days then, say, three years ago. But when it does, it reminds me how awesome the beer world is. I felt this a …
6-4-3 Double IPA — Left Field Brewery
Wow. Just Wow. How about Left Field Brewery? I don't know if you remember when, a few weeks ago (March 4th, to be specific) I mentioned Left Field Brewery launching. I remember, because it was the single biggest day of …
Maverick and Gose
It's official: the LCBO will see it's first collaborative-brew from Ontario brewers (having had Brooklyn/Schneider's Hopfenweisse), with the release of Amsterdam/Great Lakes Maverick and Gose. What's extra crazy, is it's …
Canny Man Wee Heavy — Radical Road Brewing Co.
Last year, I walked into Black Oak Brewery in Etobicoke, and was greeted by a mountain of whiskey barrels. Seriously, like, 80, I think. I knew that many breweries were jumping onto the barrel-aging wagon, but this …
Brewer's Plate 2013
So, sorry for the delay, but last week was actually pretty crazy. Lots of evenings out, and sleepy mornings. At any rate, last Wednesday was Brewer's Plate, one of my favourite beer events of the year (as noted in my …
Hopwired IPA — 8 Wired Brewery
Did you ever read The Chrysalids in school? Remember Sealand, the awesome country where telepaths were normal and encouraged? Sealand was New Zealand. It survived the nuclear holocaust, basically because it's such an …