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Otter Creek / Lawson’s Finest Liquids Double Dose IPA
Hill Farmstead Life Without Principle #3
Hill Farmstead Susan
Grassroots Legitimacy
Hill Farmstead Edward
Hill Farmstead Abner
Wellington Shadowplay Schwarzbier
Yesterday at Cask Days Session One:
Howe Sound Pumpkin Stout
Driftwood Sartori Harvest IPA
Coal Harbour Woodland Witbier
Alley Kat Dragon Series Single Hop Double IPA
Village Brewery Big League Blonde
Amsterdam Full City Double Tempest
Great Lakes Pumpkin Wound
Le Trou du Diable White IPA
Garrison East Kent Golding IPA
Signature Brew Craig Finn’s Clear Heart
Thornbridge Brewery Wild Swan
Moor Nor’Hop
Favourites were the Sartori, Dragon Series, Full City, and Pumpkin Wound
Then at Bar Hop and WVRST:
Left Field Resin Bag (draught)
Oast House Dr. Tobias Funk (draught)
Sawdust City I Swear Sugarpants, It Was Your Idea (draught)
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"Bar people do not live as long as vegan joggers. However, they have more fun." - Bruce Elliott
cratez wrote:
Favourites were the Sartori, Dragon Series, Fully City, and Pumpkin Wound
Had the Plaid Dragon at the brewery in February earlier this year when I was out there and it was fantastic. Great people and hopefully we start to see some more from them in Ontario!
Sipped on some tasty beers from Ashton Brewing today at the Ottawa Beer Market. Vanilla Stout was good, but was pleasantly surprised by their IPA...really more of a sessionable pale ale, but tasty all the same.
Also, tried White Water Oatmeal Stout, but found it to be quite underwhelming...hopefully their other beers are crafted with a little more skill.
I don't always drink beer ... because sometimes my friends win and we have to go to macro-only establishments.
Tasting night in Newfoundland two nights ago for the local beer ordering club. I supplied as much Bellwoods and Toronto stuff as possible, and a few other interesting thing made their way in too... Trying to bring up the beer quality in these parts.
Bellwoods, Farmageddon
The Bruery, Sour in the Rye
Westvleteren 8
ShawneeCraft, Belgian Tripel
Bellwoods, Motley Cru
8 Wired, Tall Poppy
The Alchemist, Heady Topper
Bellwoods, Witchshark
Evil Twin, DEVFFC, MQAL9,.8
Dogfish Head, 75 Minute IPA
Cucapa, Runaway IPA
Oud Beersel, Oude Kriek (Vieille)
Amesterdam, De Wallen
Sam Adams, American Kreik
Bellwoods, No Sleep 'Till Brooklyn
Bellwoods, 3 Minutes to Midnight
Bellwoods, Hellwoods
Bellwoods, Bring Out Your Dead
Amsterdam, Barrel Aged Tempest
Radical Road, The Wayward Son
Beau's, Bog Father
Achet, Rauchbier - Marzen
Cerverjara Sudbrack, Eisenbahn Rauchbier
Bamberg Bier, Rauchbier
Yellowbelly, Paddy's Ale
groulxsome wrote:Tasting night in Newfoundland two nights ago for the local beer ordering club. I supplied as much Bellwoods and Toronto stuff as possible, and a few other interesting thing made their way in too... Trying to bring up the beer quality in these parts.
Bellwoods, Farmageddon
The Bruery, Sour in the Rye
Westvleteren 8
ShawneeCraft, Belgian Tripel
Bellwoods, Motley Cru
8 Wired, Tall Poppy
The Alchemist, Heady Topper
Bellwoods, Witchshark
Evil Twin, DEVFFC, MQAL9,.8
Dogfish Head, 75 Minute IPA
Cucapa, Runaway IPA
Oud Beersel, Oude Kriek (Vieille)
Amesterdam, De Wallen
Sam Adams, American Kreik
Bellwoods, No Sleep 'Till Brooklyn
Bellwoods, 3 Minutes to Midnight
Bellwoods, Hellwoods
Bellwoods, Bring Out Your Dead
Amsterdam, Barrel Aged Tempest
Radical Road, The Wayward Son
Beau's, Bog Father
Achet, Rauchbier - Marzen
Cerverjara Sudbrack, Eisenbahn Rauchbier
Bamberg Bier, Rauchbier
Yellowbelly, Paddy's Ale
I just came back to my hotel after a terrific pit stop. Went to the Kompania Piwna Podwale restaurant bar in the Old Town.
A litre and then a half litre of superbly fresh Pilsner Urquell (they sell oceans of it), washing down delicious beef tartare.
Urquell on tap is one of the great beers in the world. I usually favour ales such as bitters, pale ales and IPAs. However, a fresh Pilsner Urquell is just a little bit of heaven. Yum. Goin' back tomorrow.
Couldn't agree more viz. Urquell. Even here fresh on draft it is excellent but in or near to place of origin it would be superlative.
Drinking now a (personal) blend of Amsterdam Wet Hop; that rye strong porter from Europe (Norway I think); Guinness Special Export 8%; and the New Zealand pumpkin beer, Great Punkin, we got recently. Basically 2:1:1:.5, respectively.
The result is a Spiced Black IPA with a ton of depth and a fine bittersweetness. Or you could call it a Spiced Porter perhaps. None of the beers on their own were really to my taste with a big exception for the rye porter, but the blending is superb.
A friend brought the Guinness from Europe. It was very soy-like, probably from overage (like Sinha can be at the end of its freshness window). The Punkin gushed on opening and was dry, it tasted like some of the dextrins may have been used up in a further fermentation, but the spice taste was good, it was almost like spiced dry red wine. The Amsterdam Wet Hop was fresh and right but I just didn't love the taste, a bit oniony. Yet, when you blend these in the right way with a beer I do admire on its own - the rye porter - the result was really good.
Gary
P.S. I thought the Great Punkin on its own was a lot like Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale for those who know that. Nice beers but I find the spice - as in most pumpkin ales - is overdone. Hence my use of beers like this in blending.
big day of crazy beers while brewing our 5th annual lambic... bottles except where noted...
great lakes devils pale ale (can)
great lakes crazy canuck (can)
founders red's rye (tap)
biergotter tettnacious p pilsner (tap)
biergotter creepy doll xpa (tap)
courage RIS
three floyds arctic panzer wolf
new glarus serendipity
lost abbey box set track 1: running with the devil
lost abbey box set track 2: stairway to heaven
lost abbey box set track 3: hell's bells
lost abbey box set track 4: sympathy for the devil
lost abbey box set track 5: shout at the devil
lost abbey box set track 6: highway to hell
lost abbey box set track 7: the devil inside
lost abbey box set track 8: number of the beast
lost abbey box set track 9: knockin' on heaven's door
lost abbey box set track 10: bat out of hell
lost abbey box set track 11: the devil went down to georgia
lost abbey box set track 12: heaven and hell
lost abbey box set track 13: message in a bottle
the box set was drank with the accompanying song for each (plus, where needed, an extra "buffer track" from each album). lost abbey can be hit and miss, but there certainly wasn't a miss in this box. some truly awesome beers.
... and samples of biergotter lambic 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 to figure out ratios for the next gueuze blend...
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