The Bar Towel

Over the weekend at WVRST Union Station, Bar Hop, and Bar Hop Brewco:
Muddy York Stork Derby Stout (draft)
Left Field Glorioso Italian Pilsner (draft)
Muddy York Major Small Best Bitter (cask)
Bar Hop Voices In Modern (draft)
Godspeed Oberkassel Altbier (draft)

Over the week at home:
St. Mary Axe India Pagan Ale
Spencer Trappist Ale
Collective Arts Pineapple Tepache Berliner
Ellison Relativity Double India Pale Ale
New Standard Original Lager
Transient Artisan Ales Rainbows & Waterfalls
St. Mary Axe Belhoste Ale
Old Nation Boss Tweed NE DIPA

I tried the No Name Beer last night. it's actually a decent little Euro Lager. My LCBO sold 100 cases in no time.

Muskoka Black Raspberry Thunder Milkshake IPA is similar to the Kawarthas ice cream that it is named after. It has a strong vanilla and black raspberry component, tasting like the ice cream. However, for an IPA I would like it to be hoppier.

At The Monk's Kettle:
Beau's Farm Table: Motueka Pilsner (draft)
Side Launch Session Seven (draft)
Collective Arts & Forbidden Root Origin Of Darkness (draft)

At BackRoads Brews & Shoes:
Square Brew Fog Day (draft)

At Milos' Craft Beer Emporium:
Fairweather Beki - Grapefruit & Rosemary (draft)
Tooth & Nail Fortitude Stout (draft)
Flying Monkeys SmashBomb Atomic IPA (draft)

At The Bungalow Neighbourhood Hub:
Beau's Farm Table: Dry Irish Stout (draft)
Storm Stayed Sunburst (draft)

Over the week at home:
Rainhard The Pineapple Incident
Black Oak Triple Chocolate Cherry Stout

Omnipollo Nebuchadnezzar on takeaway from Cerveteca Lisboa in Portugal. Very good and on par with the other beers I’ve had from this brewery.

Thomas Hardy’s Ale 2017. One for now and a few to sit.

BeerIsGood wrote:Thomas Hardy’s Ale 2017. One for now and a few to sit.

Same here.

Bellwoods Farmageddon with Montmorency and Morello Cherries.

Possibly the Burgundy of Ontario beers, in the look and dryness and the cherry-ness.

Sour ales like this are special, and the fruit shines best while taking time to sip and savor the bottle. From the brewery store.

All these Cherry Farmagedons appear miscategorized on ratebeer. They are probably Sours, not Saisons or Fruit Beers since the latter two do not describe defining characteristics. Would you really call Cascade Apricot a Fruit Beer, or a Saison?

Bell's Hopslam Ale — First time tasting this and it's pretty great.

Toronto Winter Brewfest highlights:
À La Fût — Double Kapi
À La Fût — Matawin
Dominion City — Between Two Evils
Dominion City — Fire From The Heaven
Muskoka — Lunar Haze
Nickel Brook — Cafe Del Bastardo

sofakingdrunk wrote:

BeerIsGood wrote:Thomas Hardy’s Ale 2017. One for now and a few to sit.

Same here.

This is quite good. It's certainly not the 'exotic' version from Hanlon's 2006-2009 (?) vintages we saw here, its less harsh and challenging as a fresh bottle, and much smoother around the edges and easier to drink without several years in the cellar.

The 'pedigree name' aside this is an impressive ale. I'm betting the cellar ageing this version will yield an even more mellow delicate profile. I think this will sell well.

Over the last 10 days in Florida:

On tap:
Cigar City Jai Alai
Rogue Ales Combat Wombat
Coppertail Night Swim Porter
Modern Times Orderville
Dogfish Head The Perfect Disguise
Rock Bottom Cucumber Kolsch (sample)
Rock Bottom Fitzcarraldo
Rock Bottom Slow Motion Man
Engine 15 Nut Sack Double Brown Ale
Terrapin Luau Krunkles IPA
Cigar City Guayabera Citra Pale Ale
Tomoka Brewing Oktoberfest
Tomoka Brewing Hops Of Thunder
Southern Tier Old Man Winter Ale
Cask & Larder Mangose (flight sample)
Cask & Larder Working Man Porter (flight sample)
Cask & Larder Five Points IPA (flight sample)
Cigar City Florida Cracker

In bottle / can:
Stone Tropic Of Thunder Lager
Captain Lawrence Effortless Grapefruit Session IPA
Bell's Official Hazy India Pale Ale
Anchor Merry Christmas & Happy New Year - Our Special Ale 2018
Captain Lawrence Hop Commander IPA
Maine Beer Another One
DuClaw Sweet Baby Jesus!
Sierra Nevada Brut IPA
Ellipsis Imperial Brazil Loves New England
Crooked Stave St. Bretta Citrus Saison
Dogfish Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA
Crooked Stave American India Pale Ale
Funky Buddha No Crusts PBNJ Brown Ale
Southern Tier 3XIPA Imperial India Pale Ale
M.I.A. Beer Co. Neon White IPA
Goose Island Summertime German-Style Kolsch
Weihenstephaner Korbinian

Right now:
Coffee

Red Racer Supersolar IPA. Found this at TBS.

Godspeed Světlý Ležák (12°)- cans from the brewpub store.

This is a 'premium lager' in the tradition of the original Budvar from Ceske Budejovice, but it s all Bim in the execution. You may want to grab a handful, it's 3.25 a can.

... Nose has nuances of field, florals and honey along with the yeasty bread - very smooth too. Taste is nicely full and bready with a good lager malt cereal crispness and a firm but not unpleasant or metallic hop profile - clean and dry as all heck, with background notes of honey and herbaceous florals. Long notes of dryness in overall profile, while the breadyness remains satisfying. As it warms there's just a hint of cereal wet hay...

Last couple of nights:
Barncat Battle Jacket iipa-it’s a barncat haze bomb...top notch, ‘buff said.
Rhythm and Brews Bandwagon ipa-probably the best hoppy beer I’ve had from these guys. Big time ganja notes in this.
Rhythm and Brews Festbock-not a fan of this, much too seeet for me, and seemed unbalanced. I struggled to finish the bottle.
Rhythm and Brews Bandan Thank You Ma’am white stout with coffee, and coconut-hands down the best beer I’ve had from this brewery. I’ve never actually had a white stout before, but based on this...it lets the adjuncts shine through more. The coconut flavour is definitely prevelant and the coffee is really nice as well. I’d take this over Bellwoods Bounty Hunter anyday.

Over the week at home:
Cascade Brewing Manhattan NW
Bellwoods Wizard Wolf - Citra & Columbus
Bellwoods Helles Lager
Bellwoods 100% Wheat Pale Ale w/ Motueka
Bellwoods Czech Pilsner
Bellwoods Double Jutsu IPA
Great Lakes TONNE
Bellwoods Raspberry & Blackberry Jelly King
Great Lakes All Our Fathers' Sins
Junction Craft Essex Ale
Junction Craft Railbender Dry-Hopped IPA
Junction Craft Schnellbahn Festbier
Junction Craft Ghost Train India Pale Ale