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- Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:49 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: What're you drinking right now?
- Replies: 16950
- Views: 3133345
Sleeman IPA half-chilled, certainly the best bottling yet. It has a clean well-malted taste with the Goldings well-interleaved and lending a faint resinous aftertaste, i.e., most of said hop is working as aroma in this beer. It meets the 1820's Brittanica definition of ale as pale, brisk, sweetish a...
- Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:55 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Westmalle Dubbel
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3757
- Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:35 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: John By / Tsarina Katerina
- Replies: 88
- Views: 25442
Reading some of the earlier posts, I see some samples of this beer are sourish or sour. Mine are fine. However, if they reach the sourish point, don't toss them. Use them to vat a porter in the 1800's/three threads manner. How much to add is a question of taste, I like to use only a little of the &q...
- Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:47 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: John By / Tsarina Katerina
- Replies: 88
- Views: 25442
- Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:30 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: John By / Tsarina Katerina
- Replies: 88
- Views: 25442
An extreme beer can be valid, i) on its own terms, or ii) in terms of fidelity to a historical style where it seeks to emulate one. E.g., some double IPAs probably come pretty close to a brewery's best IPA (sometimes a brewery had two or even three versions of its IPA) in the 1800's. But even if it ...
- Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:22 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: John By / Tsarina Katerina
- Replies: 88
- Views: 25442
- Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:40 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: John By / Tsarina Katerina
- Replies: 88
- Views: 25442
I had this again the other day and was more impressed than ever. I've been reading up on stout history and many Imperial stouts in the 1900's (in England) had lower gravities than we often today think of as the standard for an Imperial or Russian Stout. John By's ABV is not far off Samuel Smith's fo...
- Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:40 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Draft London Pride in Toronto
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1882
Draft London Pride in Toronto
Tonight I had the "hand-pulled" draft at a Duke pub downtown (in First Canadian Place). It was similar to the canned one but better, full of fine aromatic English hops and sweet Maris Otter (or that type) malt. It could have fooled me, so close was it to the real ale version of London Prid...
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:51 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Fuller's London Pride
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1535
Fuller's London Pride
The current canned version (4.7% ABV) is tasting the best ever. It has a lightish body yet with good malt sweetness and a fine flowery English hop nose and taste. This must be sampled at cellar temperature only. It pours and tastes as if no forced carbonation is used. Very real ale English-like. The...
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:12 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Stonehammer Oatmeal Coffee Stout
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6764
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: LCBO Winter Warmers 2008 Release
- Replies: 159
- Views: 42385
The Brakspear Oxford Gold is at Summerhill now, as is the Harviestoun. The Brakspear is really good, fresh and English malt-biscuity with an interleaved hoppiness from some impressive English varieties. It is almost 5% ABV and while not by my lights a winter warmer it is plenty good, drink it at cel...
- Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:59 am
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Fullers Vintage 2008
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5994
I just tried this and thought it was really good. The relative mildness can be partly off-set by drinking it at a cellar temperature. A fridge chill tends also to minimise its natural, light carbonation. It reminded me too of a lighter Thomas Hardy, or of a Whitbread Gold Label Barley Wine, a pale b...
- Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:18 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Fuller's Chiswick Bitter
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1945
- Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:29 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Gin Lane Ale
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2526
Gin Lane Ale
This year's version seems to have more roasty dark sweetness than last year's. The beer has the"aged" flavours one expects (fruity, a little Madeira-like) but with seemingly less "green apples" than last year's again. An excellent English-style strong ale, perfect for the season ...
- Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:22 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Fuller's Chiswick Bitter
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1945
Fuller's Chiswick Bitter
I had a pint at Abbey on the Hill on Yonge recently and was impressed. A fresh-tasting beer that really does resemble the cask original in London (I assume it's a keg beer - filtered and pasteurised - but if so it's very well done). The fragrant English hops lift off the top and there is a nice inte...