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- cratez
- Beer Superstar
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- Location: Brantford, Ontario
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At Bar Hop and Bar Hop Brewco:
MacLean's India Pale Ale (cask)
Left Field Bricks & Mortar Porter (draft)
Collingwood Kingpost ESB (draft)
Tooth & Nail Steadfast Porter (draft)
Over the week at home:
Great Lakes New England Style Octopus Wants To Fight
AleSmith Speedway Stout
Beau's Farm Table E.S.B.
The Lost Abbey Judgment Day
Lake Of Bays Starboard New England IPA
Great Lakes Harry Porter & The Bourbon Soaked Vanilla Bean
Great Lakes Thrust! An IPA
MacLean's India Pale Ale (cask)
Left Field Bricks & Mortar Porter (draft)
Collingwood Kingpost ESB (draft)
Tooth & Nail Steadfast Porter (draft)
Over the week at home:
Great Lakes New England Style Octopus Wants To Fight
AleSmith Speedway Stout
Beau's Farm Table E.S.B.
The Lost Abbey Judgment Day
Lake Of Bays Starboard New England IPA
Great Lakes Harry Porter & The Bourbon Soaked Vanilla Bean
Great Lakes Thrust! An IPA
"Bar people do not live as long as vegan joggers. However, they have more fun." - Bruce Elliott
FWIW, I had both beers on draught, so it seems CA is still selling it. Don't know, if they have kegs sitting around in a warehouse or something... Also, there are a lot of harvest ales in the LCBO still. I do agree that wet hop beers tend to go bad fast though. Also there is a wet hop festival on Thursday Nov. 15. http://dailyhive.com/toronto/fresh-hop- ... ronto-2018. When did the harvest end?Craig wrote:Surely that beer is a little past prime now? Wet hop beers age especially poorly and the hop harvest was a while ago.
Different varieties get harvested at slightly different times but... September? Maybe early October, at the latest.
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- Bar Fly
- Posts: 929
- Joined: Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:55 am
- Location: Guelph
Drinking Fairweather’s Donna. Their first kick at a pilsner(and lager in general i think). It’s absolutely fantastic. Lots of apple and pear,crisp cracker malt and a really clean dry finish. It’s honestly tough to put down for more than a minute between sips. Damn near perfect in every way. Fairweather continues to impress me, with pretty much any style they do. I think this may be the best Ontario Pilsner I’ve had....just ahead of Barncats first version of their German Pilsner.
Get out to Fairweather if your haven’t made it out their yet.
As a side note.....when I was in there picking these beers up, 2 weeks ago, they were carving up a massive pumpkin out front. Perhaps they’ll turn it into a pumpkin beer that I will actually like
Get out to Fairweather if your haven’t made it out their yet.
As a side note.....when I was in there picking these beers up, 2 weeks ago, they were carving up a massive pumpkin out front. Perhaps they’ll turn it into a pumpkin beer that I will actually like
- S. St. Jeb
- Seasoned Drinker
- Posts: 1060
- Joined: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:44 pm
- Location: Burlington, ON
Stonehammer Continuity Baltic Porter
For this beer, I will miss Stonehammer.
For this beer, I will miss Stonehammer.
- cratez
- Beer Superstar
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- Joined: Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:29 pm
- Location: Brantford, Ontario
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At Milos' Craft Beer Emporium:
Small Pony Barrel Works One Year Wiser (draft)
Dominion City Monster Mash DIPA (draft)
At a friend's house:
Muskoka Hibernating Grizzly
Over the week at home:
Great Lakes Lake Effect IPA
Fuller's Vintage Ale 2018
Phillips Electric Unicorn White IPA
Small Pony Barrel Works One Year Wiser (draft)
Dominion City Monster Mash DIPA (draft)
At a friend's house:
Muskoka Hibernating Grizzly
Over the week at home:
Great Lakes Lake Effect IPA
Fuller's Vintage Ale 2018
Phillips Electric Unicorn White IPA
"Bar people do not live as long as vegan joggers. However, they have more fun." - Bruce Elliott
A can of thrust canned on October 31. Yuuuuuuum.
- JaseWescott
- Posts: 266
- Joined: Sat Jul 29, 2017 5:08 pm
- Location: Hamilton
I enjoyed that beer a lot. I think George brewed it before he left.S. St. Jeb wrote:Stonehammer Continuity Baltic Porter
For this beer, I will miss Stonehammer.
- dale cannon
- Posts: 331
- Joined: Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:46 am
ST Pumking, cold pressed coffee Pumking, rum barrel Pumking, chai Pumking, Warlock
That's the way she goes. Sometimes she goes, sometimes it doesn't. She didn't go. That's the way she goes.
Bottle of Bellwoods BARN OWL BLEND NO.16, very nice stuff. Complex. Not your Dad's beer from 1982...
In Beerum Veritas
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- Bar Fly
- Posts: 625
- Joined: Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:16 pm
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Traquair Jacobite Ale - This ale pours a deep dark brown that looks red when held up to the light. It's clear with zero sediment on bottom. It's sweet and fruity, bready with scotch-ale earthiness. The coriander seemed too much at first, but is much smoother after a few sips.
Blood Brothers' Balam - their current BBA imperial stout.
Holy moly - this is the best thing I've tried in ages...
Holy moly - this is the best thing I've tried in ages...
- cratez
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At C'est What? & Corks:
County Durham Fresh Hop (cask)
Rainhard Smarch Weather (draft)
Great Lakes Thrust! An IPA (draft)
Side Launch Dark Lager (draft)
Over the week at home:
Wychwood Hobgoblin Ruby Beer
Deschutes Black Butte Porter
Bellwoods & Dunham Toute Est Dans Toute
St. Peter's Winter Ale
Wychwood Hobgoblin IPA
Traquair Jacobite Ale
Bellwoods Barn Owl Blend No. 16
Oskar Blues Hotbox Coffee Porter
County Durham Fresh Hop (cask)
Rainhard Smarch Weather (draft)
Great Lakes Thrust! An IPA (draft)
Side Launch Dark Lager (draft)
Over the week at home:
Wychwood Hobgoblin Ruby Beer
Deschutes Black Butte Porter
Bellwoods & Dunham Toute Est Dans Toute
St. Peter's Winter Ale
Wychwood Hobgoblin IPA
Traquair Jacobite Ale
Bellwoods Barn Owl Blend No. 16
Oskar Blues Hotbox Coffee Porter
"Bar people do not live as long as vegan joggers. However, they have more fun." - Bruce Elliott
Hofbräu Original Lager, not the fanciest style of brew around but a damn good one. Remember 'just beer'? I think it beats most of the Euro Lager offerings we can get here.
(The few that the LC has obtained for many years among several potentially good ones - imagine if we got more stuff like the Andechser line, SO tasty.)
Also really digging Godspeed of late, really like Nonbe Oktoberfestbier and Otsukaresama Dortmunder, great renditions of classic German styles.
The Hanabi Smoked Saison is fantastically good also. I am happy to have any of these on hand.
(The few that the LC has obtained for many years among several potentially good ones - imagine if we got more stuff like the Andechser line, SO tasty.)
Also really digging Godspeed of late, really like Nonbe Oktoberfestbier and Otsukaresama Dortmunder, great renditions of classic German styles.
The Hanabi Smoked Saison is fantastically good also. I am happy to have any of these on hand.
In Beerum Veritas
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- Bar Fly
- Posts: 625
- Joined: Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:16 pm
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Rochefort 10 circa 2013. It's a good one.