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Bytowner
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Boneshaker canned. Tasting great.
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Over the weekend at Milos' Craft Beer Emporium:
Silversmith Bang On Bitter (draught)
Forked River Black Beard Stout (sample)
Block Three King Street Saison (draught)
Flying Monkeys Rubus Acerbi (sample)
Le Trou du Diable Angélus (draught)
2010 Southern Tier Back Burner (bottle)

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Amsterdam Downtown Brown
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Garrison DIPA.. this latest batch (bottled oct 11th) tastes different than I remember. Still quite hoppy but a little sweeter than before.

Also, kind of sad that I picked this up as soon as it was available in my area and it's already 2 months old.

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Black Magic Woman
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St Ambroise IPA

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spinrsx wrote:Garrison DIPA.. this latest batch (bottled oct 11th) tastes different than I remember. Still quite hoppy but a little sweeter than before.

Also, kind of sad that I picked this up as soon as it was available in my area and it's already 2 months old.
They switched up the recipe earlier this year, I believe. You'll notice it's now sitting at 8%, where it used to be 7%. Still a good beer but I preferred the drier version.

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Bellwoods Catherine Wheel
Bellwoods Random Ale: Zythos/Centennial
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spinrsx wrote:Garrison DIPA.. this latest batch (bottled oct 11th) tastes different than I remember. Still quite hoppy but a little sweeter than before.

Also, kind of sad that I picked this up as soon as it was available in my area and it's already 2 months old.
I had a tap version in August at the Laundromat in Moncton and I argued with the bartender (not Marky) when I first got it that he poured me the wrong beer. It was WAY too sweet. The bottle version I got from the LCBO this weekend was closer to what my memory and notes suggest it used to taste like, but still a bit sweeter, I agree.

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Kish84 wrote:Bellwoods Catherine Wheel
Bellwoods Random Ale: Zythos/Centennial
Trying the Random now. I seem to be getting less and less impressed by Bellwoods single hop / double hop pales and even ipas...I know people think they're the greatest but for me Rhyme n Reason is more impressive and most of Great Lakes ipas I even prefer.

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having a cameron's rpa right now. this is just so delicious

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don't buy the 'Fire In The Rye Roasted Rye Pale Ale' expecting something similar
kevinlater wrote:having a cameron's rpa right now. this is just so delicious

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Post by S. St. Jeb »

Dupont Monk's Stout

I picked this up a few months ago. It was over-carbonated, and I didn't think it had an abundance of great flavour.

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Too dry, Jordan, almost to the point I had to wonder if "that is the taste" (i.e., did these cases go off I wonder). If it is the taste as per brewery intention, it's not for me.

Durham Black Eye: At Volo on cask, firmly hopped with a dryish but natural-tasting roast-tinged malt quality, emblematic of the style at its best.

Barley Days Cherry Porter: also at Volo, quite consistent over the last few years but I don't really get this, quite thin (or dry again) with a fairly harsh fruity note. I am sure many like it, but not my thing.

Spitfire (keg) Draft: to my surprise, fresh-tasting and excellent. Most English kegs are meh IMO but this one is good, dry/toffee malty with a gathering bitterness that shades into a tartness in a good way. Very drinkable, excellent effort by a legendary English brewer.

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kevinlater wrote:having a cameron's rpa right now. this is just so delicious
Me too - in a small bottle! Yum! And only 27 bucks for 12!
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Bellwoods Random Ale. This is pretty average for Bellwoods' standards.

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