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Last night at home:
Boulevard Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale
Half Hours on Earth Dark Sour Ale
Soods wrote:Deschutes Pinedrops IPA
Rueben's Crickey IPA
Alesmith BA Numbskull
Oud Beersel Still Gueze
Alesmith Speedway Stout
Bellwood's Barn Owl (I might have brought that one with me)
Trinity Brewing 7 Day Golden Sour
Alpine Duet
Walking Man Brewing Black Cherry Stout
Deschutes The Abyss
10 Barrel Apocolypse IPA
Cascade Brewing Blackcap Raspberry Sour
Cascade Brewing Honeycot (Apricot and Honey sour)
Cascade Brewing Blackberry Sour
De Garde Blu Bu
De Garde Citra Hose
De Garde Spruce Desay
De Garde Cherry Raz Bu
Looks like you're drinking well! Favourites so far?
"Bar people do not live as long as vegan joggers. However, they have more fun." - Bruce Elliott
Great Lakes Gilligan is Still Dead
Stone City Uncharted IPA
Northwinds Route 26
BrewDog Cocoa Psycho
Last House Farmers Tan Summer IPA
Evil Twin I Love You With My Stout (2014)
Mikkeller Black Hole (2014)
Mikkeller George! Barrel Aged Bourbon (2014)
Favs so far have been the De Garde Cherry Raz Bu and the Cascade Honeycot. Both sours but cut the tartness slightly with some sweetness much to the betterment of the beer. The Cascade Blackcap Raspberry was perhaps the sourest beer I've ever had (at least if I go by the face that my wife made when she tried it)
Both excellent, as reviews would suggest. The Four Winds was a little more to my taste; lots of grapefruit to this one. I enjoyed the Fat Tug, but my memories of Sartori Harvest are hard to compete with. Nice citrus and pine to it. Both slide easily into my Canadian top 10 IPAs.
Yellow Dog Play Dead IPA (Excellent)
Bellwoods Double Nelson IIPA (too bad it is likely a one-off as this is the best IIPA I think I've had from Bellwoods).
Yellow Dog Play Dead IPA (Excellent)
Bellwoods Double Nelson IIPA (too bad it is likely a one-off as this is the best IIPA I think I've had from Bellwoods).
Definitely like Double Nelson more than either Boogie or Witchshark. So freaking dank. Didn't think you could get that kind of character out of Nelson Sauvin. Definitely different than than Monogamy, which I did a back to back with. I actually think I like the Monogamy even more because of the drier, more crackery malt base, which I thought allowed more gooseberry and tropical fruit notes to come out. I could drink both all day long, though.
Over the weekend at the Jays game, Amsterdam BrewHouse, and Bier Markt Queensway while celebrating becoming homeowners:
Hockley Valley Dark (can)
Amsterdam 18 Hands (draft)
Amsterdam Leaf Hop Saison (draft)
Amsterdam Starke Pilsner (can)
Stone IPA (draft)
"Bar people do not live as long as vegan joggers. However, they have more fun." - Bruce Elliott
10 Barrel Apocalypse IPA
10 Barrel Swill American Radler
10 Barrel Joe IPA
10 Barrel Bock
10 Barrel Strawberry Crush
10 Barrel Sasquatch 1.5
Alpine Ale
Anderson Valley Summer Solstice
Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin
Bell's The Wild One
Bend Brewing Reciprocal Double IPA
Blackfoot River Double Citra IPA
Block 15 Framboise Black
Block 15 Cardinal Coalescence
Block 15 Golden Canary
Block 15 Belmont Station 15th Anniversary
Boneyard Bone Light I.S.A.
Boneyard Black 13
Boneyard Diablo Rojo
Boneyard Hop Venom
Boneyard 007
Boneyard Notorious
Boneyard RPM
Breakside IPA
Breakside India Golden Ale
Breakside Passion Fruit Sour
Breakside Liquid Sunshine
Buoy Rainbow Saison
Cascade BlackBerry
Cascade Blueberry
Cascade Apricot
Cascade Kriek
Cascade Sang Royal
Cascade Cranberry
Cascade Sang Rouge
Cascade Strawberry
Cascade The Vine
Cascade Noyaux
Cascade Raspberry
Crooked Stave Surette
de Garde Raz bu
de Garde Bu Weisse
de Garde Blu Bu
de Garde Citrus Desay
de Garde Spruce Desay
de Garde The Lucy
de Garde Biere Rose
de Garde Citra Hose
de Garde Azacca Hose
de Garde Petit Desay
Deschutes Black Butte
Deschutes Twilight
Deschutes Strawberry Lambik
Deschutes Fresh Squeezed
Deschutes Chainbreaker
Double Mountain 10 Speed Coffee Porter
Full Sail Session Lager
Gigantic IPA
Gigantic Ginormous
Guinness
Green Flash Palate Wrecker
HotD Adam
HotD Fred
HotD Lila
HotD Ruth
HUB Pig War
HUB Ace of Spades
Knee Deep Breaking Bud
Lagunitas A Little Sumpin' Sumpin'
Laurelwood Gose
Laurelwood Piston Pale Ale
PFriem Tripel
Russian River Blind Pig
Russian River Sanctification
Russian River Temptation
Stone Arrogant Bastard
Sunriver Blueberry Berliner
Sunriver Hop Shop - Mosaic
The Commons Rouge Melange
The Commons Enkel
Three Creeks Hoodoo Voodoo
V&D Lambickx
Widmar Hefe
Many highlights. Some the best for me were Boneyard Notorious (most delicious hop forward beer I have ever had) de Garde Citrus Desay, Block 15 and Cascade sours. Breakside IPA and Deschutes Fresh Squeezed were also great sessionable IPA's.
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Saturday at Hungry Brew Hops
Boshkung Brewing Kellerbier, seemed to be lacking some of the mineral/chalkiness I associate with the style but otherwise very nice and refreshing
High Roads Bronan Vermont Style Ale, it's good but nowhere near Heady Topper levels of goodness
10 Barrel Apocalypse IPA
10 Barrel Swill American Radler
10 Barrel Joe IPA
10 Barrel Bock
10 Barrel Strawberry Crush
10 Barrel Sasquatch 1.5
Alpine Ale
Anderson Valley Summer Solstice
Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin
Bell's The Wild One
Bend Brewing Reciprocal Double IPA
Blackfoot River Double Citra IPA
Block 15 Framboise Black
Block 15 Cardinal Coalescence
Block 15 Golden Canary
Block 15 Belmont Station 15th Anniversary
Boneyard Bone Light I.S.A.
Boneyard Black 13
Boneyard Diablo Rojo
Boneyard Hop Venom
Boneyard 007
Boneyard Notorious
Boneyard RPM
Breakside IPA
Breakside India Golden Ale
Breakside Passion Fruit Sour
Breakside Liquid Sunshine
Buoy Rainbow Saison
Cascade BlackBerry
Cascade Blueberry
Cascade Apricot
Cascade Kriek
Cascade Sang Royal
Cascade Cranberry
Cascade Sang Rouge
Cascade Strawberry
Cascade The Vine
Cascade Noyaux
Cascade Raspberry
Crooked Stave Surette
de Garde Raz bu
de Garde Bu Weisse
de Garde Blu Bu
de Garde Citrus Desay
de Garde Spruce Desay
de Garde The Lucy
de Garde Biere Rose
de Garde Citra Hose
de Garde Azacca Hose
de Garde Petit Desay
Deschutes Black Butte
Deschutes Twilight
Deschutes Strawberry Lambik
Deschutes Fresh Squeezed
Deschutes Chainbreaker
Double Mountain 10 Speed Coffee Porter
Full Sail Session Lager
Gigantic IPA
Gigantic Ginormous
Guinness
Green Flash Palate Wrecker
HotD Adam
HotD Fred
HotD Lila
HotD Ruth
HUB Pig War
HUB Ace of Spades
Knee Deep Breaking Bud
Lagunitas A Little Sumpin' Sumpin'
Laurelwood Gose
Laurelwood Piston Pale Ale
PFriem Tripel
Russian River Blind Pig
Russian River Sanctification
Russian River Temptation
Stone Arrogant Bastard
Sunriver Blueberry Berliner
Sunriver Hop Shop - Mosaic
The Commons Rouge Melange
The Commons Enkel
Three Creeks Hoodoo Voodoo
V&D Lambickx
Widmar Hefe
I'm actually heading down there in a week or two, got any recommendations for places to visit for good beer (both draft and maybe bottles to bring home)?
I would assume not 91 pints, as flight pours that's not terribly unrealistic over ten days.
Now I'm thinking it's time for a trip to Montreal! (And speak of that, this is digressing into a Beer Travel discussion.)
Majority were full pours/bottles. The 10 barrel and Cascades were all flight pours with the exception of Apricot Ale. Some sours I had at Belmont Station Puckerfest were also flight pours.
It was pretty much Noon to 11pm everyday. It wasn't always pretty.
I'm actually heading down there in a week or two, got any recommendations for places to visit for good beer (both draft and maybe bottles to bring home)?
Sure. Send me your email on PM and I send you some recommendations.
(And speak of that, this is digressing into a