Okay, if you don’t know Brooklyn Brewery, don’t feel bad. They have one regular beer available at the LCBO, the awesome Brooklyn Lager. This year, in the fall release they brought in their Post Road Pumpkin Ale, and demonstrated that Brooklyn is no one trick pony. Of course, if you follow the craft beer scene […]
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Pumking – Southern Tier Brewing Company
Okay, so I drank this beer at the LCBO media tasting for the Fall/Halloween release, but here’s the thing: you drink a lot of beers at that type of event. It’s important to revisit the ones you really liked. In fact, it’s important to revisit beers you really liked in general. I used to love […]
Prima Pils – Victory Brewing Co.
So yesterday I drank a Chirstoffel Bier to support the Dutch in their efforts to make the World Cup final. I can only imagine it was my alcoholic support that inspired them to such great heights in their match. To ensure a Netherlands v Germany final, today I am drinking the closest thing in my […]
Summer Ale – Samuel Adams
Here’s what I know about this beer: The label looks good and says it’s a wheat beer made with lemon zest and grains of paradise. I also know Jim Koch makes damn good beer. If you’re wondering what grains of paradise are, they are a brewing spice used by Renaissance brewers. It’s actually the seeds […]
Hopfen Weisse – Schneider Weisse
So this is an exciting brew, to say the least! The brewers from Brooklyn Brewery and Schneider Weisse decided to hook-up, and produce a love child. And here it is: A dry-hopped, boozy wheat beer. Considering I have good feelings towards both brewers, I can only imagine I’ll like their offspring. From a 500ml bottle […]
Bikini Blonde Lager – Maui Brewing Co.
So my bro Andrew stopped off in Hawaii for a week on his way to Toronto from New Zealand. Jealous as I was at his good fortune, he did have the decency to bring me a pair of beers called Bikini Blonde Lager, from the Maui Brewing Co. I know nothing about the beer or […]
Brooklyn Lager – The Brooklyn Brewery
The Brooklyn Brewery is trying to re-introduce our New York neighbours to beers the way they were pre-prohibition. Brooklyn Lager is their flag-ship brand, and is a wonderful amber lager (think Creemore, Big Wheel, etc). Poured from a 355ml bottle with best before date stamped on the neck, the beer is a dark amber, nearly […]
Rogue Yellow Snow IPA
Ah Rogue, is there a cooler brewery in the USA? Probably, but we sad Ontarians will never know unless we go there, or someplace with better access to beer (like Volo). Still, Yellow Snow IPA is a great example of what our Yankee friends are doing to IPAs in their near relentless pursuit of hoppy […]
Anchor Steam Beer
Anchor Brewing is an old and iconic brewery in San Francisco. “Steam Beer” seems to be a name given to early beers brewed on the West Coast of the USA, and Anchor’s version is textbook. Poured from a 355ml bottle with a freshness date on the back label. Anchor has some of my favourite labels, […]
