The Bar Towel

If the criteria is overall selection, quality, and availability then I don't think Mill Street have much competition in Ontario. They have a good variety of really well done beers and they seem to be an increasing presence in all of Ontario, and hopefully this will put more and more people on to cra...

I visited the brewery on Saturday and was surprised at how small it is. It's basically just his garage (albeit it a big and totally awesome garage) which is separated into his wood shop, the as-yet unfinished retail store, and the brewery, the latter of which takes up the least amount of space of th...

Tonight it's been a Neustadt Big Dog Porter and a MacLean's Pale Ale, both picked up from their respective breweries this weekend, and both proof that they brew some seriously good beer up in that part of Ontario. I had the porter at C'est What during the cask crawl and prefer it because the cask co...

Hey Belgian, I had the ST Raspberry Wheat today, and in my opinion, you aren't missing anything. I only had one sip. But from that all I could tell was that it smelled overpoweringly like sweet raspberry extract, but it tasted a little sour and tart and I didn't pick up a lot of wheat. The three ot...

Loved the piece. Favourite line: He acknowledges wine and liquor can be much cheaper in the U.S., but "when I've been down there I've never felt as safe as I do here. A lot of people here look at it like that." Yes, the US is a combat zone. :roll: Second favourite: "Basically the prem...

Can anyone confirm the price drop in stores? The LCBO website still shows $15.70 for a six pack. I also think the ST IPA beats the Dogfish. I'm a big hop aroma guy and the ST just kills the DFH in the aroma dept. To be sure though I will also conduct a scientific blind test once i get my hands on t...

The_Jester wrote:Sounds awesome!

If only I were a younger man . . .

Ditto that.

This was in this month's issue:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoverie ... /st_3smart

bartle wrote:Now on to a Fuller's London Porter. A very suitable desert!

Why? Is it dry and sandy?

Wild Rose DIPA. A hell of a drinkable brew. It's so good isn't it? Very chinooky. I'd definitely make it a regular in my fridge if it ever came to Ontario. Tonight I had a Great Lakes Edmund Fitztgerald, which is one of the best porters I have ever had, followed by a Fumisterie which wasn't exactly...

Oranje is also Flemish (which is the version of Dutch spoken in the north of Belgium) for orange, and it's a Belgian wit made with oranges, so it works that way too. But do we pronounce it "oranyeah" with a rhotic r? Or just orange? The Dutch fascination with orange dates back to William o...

Half-wit would have been more interesting and stood out more particularly if you'd design a package around that. Oranje Wit probably wouldn't get a second glance on the LCBO shelves. I think there's at least a half a dozen "Half Wits" out there already, including one from Wild Rose in Cal...

So far tonight it's a pair of Amsterdam Belgian Wits followed by a pair of Black Oak Saisons, both picked up from their respective breweries today, and both really nice summer beers.

I picked up a six today and I'm having my second one now. It's a nice, refreshing summer drinker. Should be a crowd real pleaser. I'm not getting a lot of anise from it, just the slightest hint of licorice in the aftertaste. So fear not Derek. :) Since the packaging is completely generic, I'm wonder...

Okay I'm back on track with a Corne Du Diable here. Phew!