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What's Your Favourite Ontario West Coast IPA?

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Black Oak Ten Bitter Years. Was a big favourite of mine back in the day (way back). Is it even made any more?

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midlife crisis wrote: Fri Jul 12, 2024 8:40 am Black Oak Ten Bitter Years. Was a big favourite of mine back in the day (way back). Is it even made any more?
I've seen Twenty Bitter Years, a hazy IPA (yuck, lol). Ten Bitter Years was indeed great.

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Since newer West Coast IPAs are so few and far between I have been going back to the classics. Boneshaker in particular really hits the mark for me, as I love the heavier malt body combined with the hop bite.
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hopdevil wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:58 am Fairweather has a new WC IPA called Lefty - Delicious
Not sure I'd call it a traditional WC IPA so much as just not hazy but I did quite like it back in April. I feel like this style has a lot of potential - less malt forward than a traditional WC IPA, less caramel and resin, but also less of the green hop veg crud that ruins a lot the hazys for me.

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I’ve also recently revisited Ransack after years away. I love it again like I used to. They had 4-packs at superstore for $14 until I cleaned them out eventually :D
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Since newer West Coast IPAs are so few and far between I have been going back to the classics. Boneshaker in particular really hits the mark for me, as I love the heavier malt body combined with the hop bite.
Boneshaker is $80 for a 24 at TBS, $3.33 a can, not bad for a great 7%er!

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Currently sipping on a 3moon Left Hand Path(mosiac). It’s very very good. Admittedly, I’m a bit of a mosiac whore, but this is a delicious beer. Nice white grapefruit pith and pomelo flavours up front, some mulberry kicking around in there and a solid bitter finish. This is the second of the Left Hand Path series I’ve had(not sure how many they’ve done) and it’s 10 times better than the first one I had.

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I had an octopus likes to fight for the first time in a while tonight and it was great.

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Surf Rock from Town Brewery is excellent!
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I had the San Diego Super Sauce from Rouge River and it was quite good. It's at the Lickbo now: https://www.lcbo.com/en/rouge-river-san ... -ipa-38795

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Went to buy my annual Boneshaker for Halloween (gotta use that skull mug I have!) and was shocked to see it went up to $4.25/can. Oh wait... it's in a 568ml can!
Works out to a cheaper price per ounce, but I don't know if I was really looking for more ounces, lol
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I got some of GLB's limited 2010 West Coast IPA and it's a nice nostalgia trip. I'm looking forward to Lake Effect season. It's been great the past few years.
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