Deja brew.
At the Lake of Bays Bracebridge Barrlehouse for a brew and it turned out to be a serendipitous suds sampling. Serendipitous, how so you say, because you enjoy an alliteration as much as I do. * Well, I hand my business card to the bar tender, because when I’m sampling suds I’m all business. She said that COMDB sounds familiar. It turns out that a few years ago she poured me a frosty cold one at Sawdust and we had to look up that brew review. Sure enough, her smiling face was adorning that brew pic.
My last visit to the Barrelhouse was more than two years ago. I had a dreamy creamy cream ale to accompany a vegetarian’s nightmare of a brisket in a basket. A super suds sampling. Based on past performance, and my penchant for an amberesque quaff, I had high hopes for their Vienna lager, Majora.
As far as the name Majora goes, I enlisted the COMDB translation department but they quickly rejected my translation request, “we don’t do Latin” was their familiar mantra. Sounds like a job for our egghead Editor, who loves Latin like a dog loves a bone. It just so happens that the Latin word “majora” translates to “larger” in English. So what we have here is a larger lager. Time to see if its quality goes with quantity, can we super suds size it?
A pro pour in presentation and appearance,** a clear golden with a creamy crown and a nice middlin’ malt lager aroma. A lighter looking Vienna. The taste was a creamy malt with a slightly lager sweet, nitro smooth with a full mouthfeel and very slight bitters to go with a dry finish. Outstanding! Not as malty or as carmelly as some Viennas or ambers, but it maintains a great balance of full flavoured and easy drinking. It is also a big swigger, just like me, and who can blame me.
Serendipitous super suds, top of the taps tasty, and that’s a couple of alliterations you can take to the bank.*
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