Noche De Los Alebrijes by Half Pints - A decent enough, malty, roasty black lager
Malus Pater by Beer Here - a rather bland, uninteresting quad; certainly not as interesting as the label!!!
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At Milos' Craft Beer Emporium:
Nickel Brook Kiangoi Coffee Pale Ale (draught)
Muskoka Winter Weiss (draught)
Le Trou Du Diable La Petite Buteuse (draught)
Flying Monkeys Machete (draught)
Right now:
Ommegang Game Of Thrones Take The Black Stout
Hope everyone is having a great Christmas!
Nickel Brook Kiangoi Coffee Pale Ale (draught)
Muskoka Winter Weiss (draught)
Le Trou Du Diable La Petite Buteuse (draught)
Flying Monkeys Machete (draught)
Right now:
Ommegang Game Of Thrones Take The Black Stout
Hope everyone is having a great Christmas!
"Bar people do not live as long as vegan joggers. However, they have more fun." - Bruce Elliott
2008 North Coast Old Stock (drinking very nice)
Side by side of Red on Red, the Flying Monkey's version released here and Central City's same beer released there. A little bit of an age difference (a few months) and that's noticeable, the BC version not being as bitter and brash and allowing the juiciness of the hops to showcase a little more.
Side by side of Red on Red, the Flying Monkey's version released here and Central City's same beer released there. A little bit of an age difference (a few months) and that's noticeable, the BC version not being as bitter and brash and allowing the juiciness of the hops to showcase a little more.
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In Montreal over the weekend, frustrated because where I was staying all the beer in pubs and restaurants seemed macro (Rickards, Budweiser, Bud Light and such). Molson Export, to which I have a sentimental attachment, was available in two places I stopped by. In one, the bottle had (IMO) a clear damp paper oxidized taste and I didn't finish it, the same for draft Export in another place downtown. Finally I got a tall can in a depanneur to see if it would be the same. There was no oxidation but the starchy aftertaste seemed quite different to how I recall Export in Quebec 30 years ago and even Ontario 15 years ago.
I had a Blue "faute de mieux" on the train back and decided it is a decent mass market beer: you can taste malt and hops in it albeit lightly. It trumps Molson Coors's beers, IMO. The only craft beer I found, in a restaurant downtown Saturday night, was Gaspar, a lager. It was nice, also a touch oxidized I thought but certainly drinkable. I think the oxidation factor results from the beers mentioned not having a big turnover. I am sure e.g., Coors Light was always in top shape (for what it is) because it sells so much.
"You can't go home again", Thomas Wolfe was right, but I still hold out hope that the old "Mol" I remember will come back..
Gray
P.S. I wasn't able to visit any of the great beer bars, we stayed in Snowdon to attend a family event so I was limited to that part (around Decarie/Cote Ste. Catherine), and downtown briefly around Central Station. Maybe there was some good beer there but I couldn't find any the couple of times I had a chance to have a beer out. In and just outside Central Station, apart from Sleeman Honey Brown, decent but not a favourite of mine, I can't recall seeing a craft beer where I looked in. I did see Creemore once, but I am not going to drink Creemore in Montreal.
It can be similar of course in large tracts of Metro Toronto. It is a reminder how relatively small the craft beer segment still is.
I had a Blue "faute de mieux" on the train back and decided it is a decent mass market beer: you can taste malt and hops in it albeit lightly. It trumps Molson Coors's beers, IMO. The only craft beer I found, in a restaurant downtown Saturday night, was Gaspar, a lager. It was nice, also a touch oxidized I thought but certainly drinkable. I think the oxidation factor results from the beers mentioned not having a big turnover. I am sure e.g., Coors Light was always in top shape (for what it is) because it sells so much.
"You can't go home again", Thomas Wolfe was right, but I still hold out hope that the old "Mol" I remember will come back..
Gray
P.S. I wasn't able to visit any of the great beer bars, we stayed in Snowdon to attend a family event so I was limited to that part (around Decarie/Cote Ste. Catherine), and downtown briefly around Central Station. Maybe there was some good beer there but I couldn't find any the couple of times I had a chance to have a beer out. In and just outside Central Station, apart from Sleeman Honey Brown, decent but not a favourite of mine, I can't recall seeing a craft beer where I looked in. I did see Creemore once, but I am not going to drink Creemore in Montreal.
It can be similar of course in large tracts of Metro Toronto. It is a reminder how relatively small the craft beer segment still is.
Gary Gillman
