Stargazer

Brewery: Bobcaygeon Brewing Company Type: Black Rye IPA ABV: 7.1% Thoughts: Admittedly, I poured this on the aggressive side and it quickly overflowed and spilled onto the counter top. I was annoyed, but I guess mainly at myself. Anyway! It’s quite a thick liquid and felt like it slugged out of the can. I’m embellishing…

Roman Candle

Brewery: Bellwoods Brewery Type: IPA ABV: 6.8% Cost: $5.00 Thoughts: Decent pour out of the can that settles into a white, foamy head with decent bubble variation and retention. Immediately there’s a juicy aroma wafting out, mainly pineapple and a faint floral hoppiness. The colour is much paler than anything I’ve seen in a long…

Islay Whisky Cask [Laphroaig]

Brewery: Innis & Gunn Type: Amber Scotch Ale (Laphroaig Islay Whisky Cask) ABV: 7.4% Thoughts: Beautiful espresso colour. The light does pass through but only slightly, giving it a fairly high SRM value. The head is large a fluffy with great bubble variation and retention. The cloud-like foam rising above the glass looks quite appetizing….

Badlands Apricot IPA

Brewery: A collaboration between Small Batch Dispatch and Badlands Brewing Company Type: Apricot IPA ABV: 7.5% IBU: Unknown but I am guessing high (60ish) Ingredients: Note from brewer: What we came up with was an idea for a fruited IPA that exists on the subtler side of the fruit beer spectrum. IPA already throws tons of fruited notes, so we…

Zane Lost His Avocado Bag

Brewery: Refined Fool Brewing Company Type: Brut IPA ABV: 7.6% IBU: 25 Ingredients: Water, malted barley (Pilsner, Vienna), malted wheat, hops (Citra, Mosaic), yeast Thoughts: Ok, so this beer obviously caught my attention while shopping at LCBO but my initial assumption was that it was one of those fancy beers with a pile of added…

Golden Ale

Brewery: Trestle Brewing Company Type: Golden Ale ABV: 5% IBU: 22 Thoughts: Can opened without that signature can opening sound. No explosion of carbon dioxide. AND! looking at the mouth of the can I can see that the liquid inside is actually at the TOP (pictured)! There’s 0% room for more beer in this vessel….

No. 99 Pale Ale

Brewery: Wayne Gretzky Craft Brewing Type: Pale Ale ABV: 5% Ingredients: Water, malted barley, hops yeast Thoughts: This one had a huge, hyperactive head when I poured it in. I had to wait several times, and even had to take a few sips before being able to fully empty the can. The foam was a…

Dynamo Cream Lager

Brewery: Furnace Room Brewery Type: Cream Lager ABV: 5.1% IBU: 10 SRM: 5 This value is the amount of light lost, multiplied by 12.5 Ingredients: Water, Malted Barley, Hops, Wheat, Yeast Thoughts: This one poured nicely and gave off a distinct copper odour. Well, I mean, it wasn’t off-putting but it was also not expected….

Farmstead Ale

Brewery: Goodlot Farmstead Brewery Type: Pale Ale ABV: 6.2% IBU: 38 Thoughts: First, this beer is hitting a few points that have already pulled me in and caught my attention. One is that this a farm-based brewery where they actually grow most/all of the ingredients used. When I think of true artisanal beer, that’s what…

Extremist

Brewery: The Napanee Beer Company Type: Belgian Style IPA ABV: 7.2% Ingredients: Water, malted barley, hops, wheat, yeast Thoughts: The head seems a bit superficial. Like, it’s sticking around but the bubbles are not of varying sizes and it just looks too light and thin. It’s not really foamy and doesn’t appear to have substance….

Craft Lager

Brewery: Hill Street Beverage Company Type: Lager ABV: < 0.5% ! Thoughts: It pours quite nicely, which I was surprised about… not sure why. For some reason I didn’t think there’d be a big fluffy head without the alcohol. The colour is an apple juice golden yellow and as clear as a glass of water….

Armchair Scotch Ale

Brewery: Maclean’s Ales Inc. Type: Scotch Ale ABV: 7.5% Thoughts: The aroma on this one was quite nice but not necessarily typical for this type of beer. It was sweet, which is normal, but then also had a bit of apple juice alongside some tanginess and citrus notes. Usually scotch ales have more of a…