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Autumn Hop Harvest Ale — Amsterdam Brewing Co.
Fall is a great time for beer drinking. Sweet Oktoberfest Marzens that you drink by the litre, pumpkin beers with their earthy rich flavours, and a range of "harvest ales" that range from spiced warmers, to hoppy pale …
Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Kensington Tilt
Today, Fred and Chris talk about Tilt from Kensington Brewing Co, as well as fall/winter seasonal beers, and the new beers at the LCBO this season. Also, ignore the reference to Beau's Oktoberfest. We got delayed a week …
Mill St Oktoberfest
How are you? I know, Oktoberfest season is a marathon. This is the part where the pros push through, and the weekend warriors fall back. Lets kick that wall down! Mill St has a shiny new Beer Hall, and a great line-up of …
Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Cask Days/The Granite
Sorry for the long lay-off on posting these. Firstly, one of our key producers in the beer breaks left Corus, and it took a bit of time to get realigned and back on track, then this video came out on Friday, and I was …
Nama Cho — Ontario Spring Water Sake Company
Wait a second, why are you reading a review about a rice wine on TorontoBeerBlog.com? Right? I mean, come on, it's WINE. Well friend, let me take a moment to defend myself: What is wine? It's a fermented drink made from …
Barrel-aged Saison — Black Oak Brewery
One of my favourite perennial beers is Black Oak's Summer Saison. A wicked good saison, with lots of bright citrus notes and classic Belgian spices from the yeast, it's a heck of a beer. So I was obviously pretty excited …
Spiegelau IPA Glass
When you drink, how many senses do you think you use? One, just taste? Two, taste and smell (remember that "taste" is limited to sweet, salty, sour and bitter, descriptions like "hoppy", "caramel", "herbal" etc are …
The Wayward Son — Radical Road Brewing Co.
There was a time when I would have said that this beer had one of the most attractive and interesting packages. I mean, a real champagne bottle, very minimally labelled, in a beautiful stained-glass motif box? Just …
Oaktoberfest —Black Oak Brewing Co.
While Bavarians are in full Oktoberfest swing, and the massive tents of Munich are full to overflowing with joyful celebrants, we are just starting to get our dose of German and German-style Oktoberfest beers here in …
Beer Bubbles — Throwing my stick on the pile
Wow. Every few months, we get a "scandal" in the craft brewing world, and geeks get all in a tizzy and opinions get thrown around and people become overnight experts, then it blows over and we all have beer together. …
Steam Whistle's Oktoberfest
As confusing as this is to most North Americans, most of Oktoberfest actually happens in Munich during the last bit of September. It's a 16 day festival that ends on the first weekend in October. So don't be surprised as …
Budweiser Crown — Anheuser-Busch/InBev
People drink with their eyes. They drink with the memories too. Even a fairly old and stale Guinness can still taste decent to me, because it sparks memories of incredible Guinness. Similarly, it can be hard for me to …
Shawinigan Handshake — Le Trou du Diable
Probably the best label in the beer world, Shawinigan Handshake pays homage to the choke-slamming PM from PQ. The last in my mini-series on hopfenweisse beers, following Miami Weisse by Great Lakes and Hopfenweisse by …
Hopfenweisse — Les Trois Mousquetaires
Following on the tail of Great Lakes Miami Weiss, is another one of these quirky over-hopped wheat beers. This one from the excellent Quebecois brewer, Les Trois Mousquetaires. Known for making some epic classic style …
Miami Weiss — Great Lakes Brewery, 2013
The nature of the growth of the brewing scene, means that new styles are created, and variations on styles become their own. This is why we now have pales ales, and American pale ales. Brewers play with things, blend …
Craft Evangelism
Want to see me open about 7 different cans of worms in the span of about 1700 words? Watch closely now...... Therefore go and make disciples of all nations... Matthew 28:19a ("The Great Commission") [caption id="" …
Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Amsterdam BrewHouse Food Pairing
Today, we hooked up with Iain McOustra again, and ate a bunch of awesome food paired with stellar beers. Hard living, I know....
Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Amsterdam BrewHouse Tasting Flight
Today, Fred and Chris got to hang out with Iain McOustra, Head Brewer at the Amsterdam BrewHouse. They got to enjoy the patio, as well as a flight of the excellent beers available.
Digging out of the news heap
So, every so often, I realize that I've totally neglected the blizzard of news releases and facebook events and whatever else people use to try to get the attention of a group of highly inattentive beer bloggers. So …
Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Amsterdam De Wallen
So we're totally stoked to have Amsterdam join us in partnership for the beer break for the next few weeks! And of course, a big thanks to our friends at Toronto's Festival of Beer for all the fun these past few months. …