The Bar Towel

Ransack The Universe, which has become my go to beer recently. Unfortunately, it's my last for a while, as I was just diagnosed with IBS. My gastro specialist wants me on something called a FODMAP diet for at least a month, which apparently frowns on the consumption of beer. Surely this is the way t...

Driftwood Brewery Farmhand Saison.

I wish we had more access to their beers here in Ontario. I've had seven or eight different ones on visits to Vancouver and been very impressed with them all. One of the better breweries in the country I believe.

Live Transmission Milkshake IPA from Flying Monkeys, the first such so called IPA I've encountered. It's very good and the milkshake is there. As an aside, I have a lot of faith in this brewery regarding Pale Ale's and IPA's, but very little faith regarding stouts. I thought Aurora Heart was a water...

[quote="sofakingdrunk"]Garrison Juicy DIPA- wow.......I don't think I've been lied to this badly by a beer before. Claimi g to be an east coast IPA, dank,tropical,Juicy and hazy. Absolutely not! Hazy.....damn it's pretty similar looking to an adjunct lager. Dank, nope. Tropical, ok yeah I ...

Interesting, by style (some could fit in two categories). Glad they aren't bringing in many inevitably stale IPAs. Saison x5 Fruit ale x4 Kriek x2 Sour x1 IPAx1 I was having a similar thought regarding the heavy concentration in a couple of styles. I know, it's a summer release, so certain styles w...

Nickel Brook Winey Bastard. Yeah...great...whatever...WGAF. Enough already. I was really f-ing pissed off when I was drinking this beer. Barrel aging should complement, enhance, augment the taste of the beer, not overwhelm it. If I want a Pinot Noir, there are many available. They screwed up a very ...

Napalm Frog. Not sure when you were in Hong Kong, but the situation in mainland China is much different right now. I frequented a bar/store in Qinhuangdao called Wow Beer. They carried I figure between 125-150 different beers at a time and 99% of them were foreign. European, Australian, NZ, America....

Half way through a HopCity Hopbot IPA Hard to believe but true. I found thirty six bottles of this at a grocery store in Qinhuangdao, China when I was living there. Bought a couple, drank them, then went back and bought the rest. The same store also had Barking Squirrel. Interesting, any proof? Pro...

Railway City Black Coal Stout.

Hoppy's Tavern wrote:Half way through a HopCity Hopbot IPA

Hard to believe but true. I found thirty six bottles of this at a grocery store in Qinhuangdao, China when I was living there. Bought a couple, drank them, then went back and bought the rest. The same store also had Barking Squirrel.

I picked up 6 Abbaye des Rocs today, they had a sticker over the label stating 10.3% abv! As I said in a previous post, this 100 rated beer, imported from Belgium, for $6.20/750mL must be one of the best values ever. Also got a Straffe quad, but declined the $20 Deus Brut. I also passed on the Deus...

At the moment I'm having the Grand Cru Val-Dieu. Moving on to a Straffe Hendrik Quad next. Curious about your thoughts on both of these. I have a Strafe Hedrik cooling its heels for later in the week, and plan on picking up the Val Dieu shortly. I quite enjoyed the Abbaye des Rocs, but felt that it...

At the moment I'm having the Grand Cru Val-Dieu. Moving on to a Straffe Hendrik Quad next.

I've had Birra, Standard, and Phantasmagoria. Thought they were all good, but not great. Those more in the know about the brewery inform me it's the stouts you should be seeking.

Bell City Brewing Brewed Awakening Black Coffee IPA. One from Mikkeller is the only other coffee IPA I can immediately recall drinking. So far, I like them.