Fruit Beer
Lawnmower Arm Saison — Great Lakes Brewery
I think I had Lawnmower Arm Saison before. I'm not really sure, but it sounded familiar. But when I was at the Great Lakes Brewery in Etobicoke this week, and I saw it, as a barrel-aged, on sour cherries, incarnation, I …
Orange Peel Ale — Great Lakes Brewery
One of my earliest craft-beer memories from my journey into better beer, was seeing a tap handle that was an orange. I don't know why I was so enamoured by it, but I was. It was, of course, the tap handle for Great Lakes …
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 …
Omerta Blood Orange Pale Ale — Bellwoods Brewery
Fruit in beers, what can I say? They range from light lime lagers to the epic Cantillion Lambics, and lots of iterations in between. In some cases, the fruit is really the only thing you taste, in other cases it used to …
3 Minutes To Midnight (Hellwoods on Sour Cherries) — Bellwoods Brewery
Oh my oh dear. Is there anything Bellwoods makes that doesn't turn to solid gold? Yes, those things that turn to platinum. If you like beer, and you haven't experienced a beer from Bellwoods, stop reading this very …
Smashed Blueberry — Shipyard Brewing Co.
So, I don't know if it's Ontario brain-washing, overly romantic memories of cottaging in Muskoka as a child, or a geniune love of the little blue berries known (cleverly) as Blueberries. In pancakes, as jam on toast, in …
St Ambroise Apricot Wheat Ale — McAuslan Brewing Inc.
Continuing along with my "stuff in beer" reviews, is St Ambroise Apricot Wheat Ale. I've said it in past posts, but I'll say it again: I don't go in for this seasonal beer stuff. True, I think there are beers for …
St Ambroise Framboise — McAuslan Brewing Inc.
Another day another beer review. If you recall from my review of Great Lakes Green Tea Ale, I'm focusing for a while on those "summer-time" brews (though I prefer to not pigeon-hole beers seasonally, most people do) that …
Lemon Tea Beer - Mill St. Brewery
So, as big and corporate as Mill St has gotten, they still do make some pretty unique beers. They seem to be pushing these beers this summer, releasing them as singles and in a mixed pack available at the LCBO. Lemon Tea …
Organic Raspberry - Samuel Smith
Here's the thing: I don't generally really like fruit beers. Too often they taste of fake fruit flavouring, other times, the just don't taste particularly good. There are exceptions to this rule, of course, like the …
Cherry Ale - Trafalgar Ales and Meads
So, despite a few less then ideal experiences on my own account, and a bad-hat-trick over at http://www.onebeeratatime.wordpress.com by Matt, I went ahead and bought this seasonal offering from Trafalgar (they do make …