Cranky Reviews

The Beach Ball Program™

Beer Type

15 to 20

15 to 20

Super Suds

Rating

The Beach Ball Program™

Beach Freak

Black Bellows Brewing Co.

5.1% Alcohol

Sharks on the beach?* Black Bellows is another fine Collingwood based crafter. Collingwood is known for its snow skiing but also has lots of rock beaches, and a major sand beach, that being Wasaga. So we have a land shark with a build like a young Arnold as Conan (the barbarian not the talk show host) flexing on Wasaga beach.

This muscle beach shark reminded me of my kids a few years ago starting the Beach Body program. Exercise, sweating, watching what you eat, are all things that certainly don’t fit my lifestyle. So I developed a program for the rest of us, the Beach Ball Program™. I did my research and found out that muscle is denser than fat, so a pound of muscle is heavier than a pound of fat, right?** So if I eat what I want (chips and dip) and drink what I want (craft beer) and do what I want (not exercising)  and gradually replace muscle with fat I should lose or at least maintain my present body weight.  I don’t need much muscle to pull in a 4 pound bass now do I.*** So far my program has been working out, and I haven’t. I am digressing.

This pale ale poured lemonade yellow with a bright white beach head. A fresh but mild hop and fruit aroma, not citrus but I couldn’t place the fruit. The first swig followed suit, crisp, mild flavours, mild hops. No bitter in the finish, just crisp.  The fruit isn’t citrus, melon maybe? I wasn’t able to identify it until I read the can, strawberry! Great job in putting in just a touch, and I wouldn’t think it would work but it does.

This is an easy drinking crisp minimal hops mild fruit pale ale. Very refreshing, ideal for a hot day BBQ session.

*Editor’s Comment: As per World News, whose byline is “Where facts don’t matter” there was a great white caught in Lake Erie. However experts on sharks will tell you that most sharks can’t survive in fresh water. The only one that can adapt is the bull shark but the temperatures of the great lakes would turn a bull shark into what one marine biologists called a “sharksickle”.

**Editor’s Comment: It appears that our reviewer is denser than both muscle and fat.

***Editor’s Comment: in your case, you don’t need a healthy body to pull in a 4 pound bass, just a healthy imagination. I recommend you read the book by Artie Lange entitled “Too Fat to Fish”.

Final Rating: A Crisp Shark Fin-ish 16 out of 20

Beer Type

15 to 20

15 to 20

Super Suds

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