At Milos' Craft Beer Emporium:
Neustadt Springs Texas Tea Stout (cask)
Sonnen Hill Jive Pale Ale (draft)
Left Field Reggie Bar Stout (draft)
Blood Brothers Cactus Head DDH IPA (draft)
At Pizzeria Madre:
Sonnen Hill Lager Beer (draft)
At Company Bar:
Collective Arts Wet Hop 2019 (draft)
Halo Chroma Key - Saskatoon Berry (draft)
Blood Brothers Devil’s Trill X: Trill Communication (draft)
Great Lakes Chocolate Covered Cherry Things (sample)
Over the week at home:
Bellwoods Monogamy - Sabro
Bellwoods Hellwoods 2020
Bellwoods Grandma
BartOwl wrote:I just visited Shacklands, Rainhard, and Junction Breweries. Shacklands has a nice quad, and a very good Belgian double IIPA collab with Rainhard. Rainhard had an Armed and Sabro pale ale, which displayed the hop variety well. I also tried an Age and Beauty #2, which was a decent sour. At Junction, i got to try a 0IBU IPA on cask, which had a strong grapefruit taste, and I tried a SMX Belhoste Ale. This beer had a nice strawberry estery taste with some biscuit notes. Cheers.
It's a nice trifecta for sure. I'm most partial to Rainhard and their focus on hoppy beers and sours, but Junction cranks out some good boilerplate takes on English, German, and US styles that often fly under the radar. Shacklands is decent to below average in my mind, and I don't love that so many of the Belgian-style beers they do are fruited (not to mention expensive), but it's a fun spot to hit if you're doing an Aleyards crawl. Glad to hear you enjoyed your visit.
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