Your 'Go-To' Summer Beers

icemachine · Post by **icemachine** » Mon May 25, 2009 1:29 pm

R&R mentioned they have a large order on its way, you'd have to check with them for specifics

lagerale · Post by **lagerale** » Mon May 25, 2009 8:37 pm

Fuller's ESB
Mill Street Tankhouse
Denisons Weissbier
Black Oak Saison (if/when available)
St. Ambroise Oatmeal stout (stouts appeal to me year round)

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Mon May 25, 2009 10:08 pm

Hacker Pschorr Weisse
Pilsner Urquell
Railway City Blonde
Czechvar
Durham Signature

Timmy · Post by **Timmy** » Tue May 26, 2009 12:47 am

Last year I was really diggin the Taps Vanilla Wheat and I think they had a Strawberry Wheat in non descript grey cans that was pretty good.

This year it will probably be those and the IPAs/PAs I have been drinking so far.
SN Torpedo
SN Pale
DFH 60
Sgt Major if I can find it.
I usually keep some PC Honey Red around as a lawnmower beer and in case we have people over.

On the must buy list are....

True North IPA(how is that stuff anyways)
Any of the Grand River stuff
Prima Pils
Pumphouse Blueberry
Hoptical Illusion if I can get it near me....

Andicus · Post by **Andicus** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:59 am

Mill St. Tankhouse Ale
Schneider Weisse
Denison's when available...

kmallett · Post by **kmallett** » Tue May 26, 2009 8:40 am

Mill Street Tankhouse
True North IPA
King Pilsner
Anything from Grand River

and maybe a few bottles of Blue aka "The Good Stuff" for lawnmower beer. I still have some in my fridge so I might as well drink it

carguy · Post by **carguy** » Tue May 26, 2009 10:23 am

Grand River Plowmans, Bitter & Twisted, and Fruli will be my summer mainstays. Last summer, it was Black Sheep Ale, but my local LCBO doesn't stock it anymore. Also, Hacker Pschorr Hefe Wisse and Big Rock Grasshopper Wheat for the wife.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Tue May 26, 2009 11:20 am

It'll certainly be nice to have Denison's in a bottle... though at $80 a pin, I'm still tempted to get a kegerator:

http://www.bartowel.com/board/viewtopic ... c&start=28

I'm looking forward to the Prima Pils, the Creemore Keller, some Grand River's & any IPAs that cross my path.

Hopefully we'll see some hoptical illusion as well, a local, very drinkable hop fix.

Matty D · Post by **Matty D** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:56 pm

I forgot about the Flying Monkey offerings in the mix, that will for sure be fighting for space in the fridge.

On that note, I tried the Robert Simpson Anti-Gravity over the Christmas break and said to myself that it would be very solid summer beer. I will have to test that theory

icemachine · Post by **icemachine** » Tue May 26, 2009 5:23 pm

Having tested a couple pints up at the brewery this afternoon, I can say the Hoptical Illusion will definitely be well stocked in my fridge this summer. Friday nights tasting didn't do justice to the beer, a couple pints at the brewery, and boy did the Amarillo shine through.

velovampire · Post by **velovampire** » Tue May 26, 2009 5:45 pm

icemachine wrote:Having tested a couple pints up at the brewery this afternoon, I can say the Hoptical Illusion will definitely be well stocked in my fridge this summer. Friday nights tasting didn't do justice to the beer, a couple pints at the brewery, and boy did the Amarillo shine through.

That's what I was thinking as well. I enjoyed, but wasn't blown-away by the C'est What sample, but I am very much looking forward to retrying this in a more adequate serving size...

dutchcanuck · Post by **dutchcanuck** » Tue May 26, 2009 5:54 pm

You people are killing me. With all your c'est what and volo beer tastings. I live a desert out here in St. Catharines. All this talk is making me thirsty, so much so I am tempted to drive up to Toronto! If anyone in the Niagara region is game let me know.

Guybrush · Post by **Guybrush** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:28 pm

dutchcanuck wrote:You people are killing me. With all your c'est what and volo beer tastings. I live a desert out here in St. Catharines. All this talk is making me thirsty, so much so I am tempted to drive up to Toronto! If anyone in the Niagara region is game let me know.

Yo, you should totally drive over to Barfallo (sp?) and go to premier gourmet, consumer beverages, and the Merchant beer store and buy lots of beer and then say.... "where's your precious volo now bitches?!?!" And we'd all be like, "Man.... I wish i could live next to a city that sells all those beers."

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:35 pm

Guybrush wrote:
dutchcanuck wrote:You people are killing me. With all your c'est what and volo beer tastings. I live a desert out here in St. Catharines. All this talk is making me thirsty, so much so I am tempted to drive up to Toronto! If anyone in the Niagara region is game let me know.
Yo, you should totally drive over to Barfallo (sp?) and go to premier gourmet, consumer beverages, and the Merchant beer store and buy lots of beer and then say.... "where's your precious volo now bitches?!?!" And we'd all be like, "Man.... I wish i could live next to a city that sells all those beers."

Yeah, actually, you and I aren't far (about 40 minutes) from Ryan's Party Store in Port Huron. Rogue, DHF, Smuttynose, Jolly Pumpkin, Bells, Arcadia, MI Brewing, and many many more are available there. I should really go more.

mjohnston · Post by **mjohnston** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:43 pm

Steelbackguy, not to mention Kuhnhenn only about an hour and a half or less away.