IPA

505 Reviews

It’s Not New Year’s Eve

It’s Not New Year’s Eve

I am not a fan of using the name Champagne to refer to beer. If I wanted Champagne, I’m not looking at a can from Nine Locks Brewing for Christ's sake. Maybe they named it after looking at the beer in the glass – it does have a colour that resembles Champagne. But...

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Wych’s Brew

Wych’s Brew

This IPA from a British brewery might surprise you at first taste. It has a rich red colour and a bite on the first taste that will make you think it's an Ale, not an IPA. The citrus flavour that has become pretty common in North American IPAs is missing and the...

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Home Run Hit with a Hespeler

Home Run Hit with a Hespeler

Editor’s Introduction: This review, by our esteemed colleague RA, who has sampled more craft beers than Dodd’s has pills, has been edited from a text by the reviewer. Some additional information has been added as the editor (ghost writer) was required to “read between...

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Hazy Days in Blyth Ontario

Hazy Days in Blyth Ontario

Hazy Days kind of sums up most of 2021 with the pandemic making days run together and feeling the same for most of us. Cowbell Brewing is located in Blyth, Ontario which I had to check on Maps to see where the hell it was. A village of approximately 1000 Wikipedia...

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Lost in the Woods

Lost in the Woods

It’s all there on the label. This beer has a lot of flavour, so much that you can get confused about the taste. At first you taste some fruitiness, then the hops kick in and finally there is some bitterness at the finish. For a session IPA it has an amazingly full,...

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Riding the Rails

Riding the Rails

Juice Caboose’s packaging caught my eye. Juicy IPA and Strong Beer is the promise. Seems at 6.8% alcohol the second claim is a no brainer. Made by Railway City Brewing Co. Oh I get it....Railway Brewing and prefix Caboose. Not sure why the psychedelic graphics are...

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No Surprises Good or Bad

No Surprises Good or Bad

Taking a walk down Mill Street with their pedestrian IPA. Part of their organic line of brewskies. You could call this IPA pedestrian, standard or classic. Since I am a Mill St. fan I will, opt for classic.* This classic IPA is a bit hoppy and a bit bitter, nothing...

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Hooty Hoot

Hooty Hoot

I doubt any filtering agent was used in this beer, very cloudy. Looks like grapefruit juice. Hey wait a minute, it tastes like grapefruit juice too. A little tangy, a little bitter. It’s good, smooth, tasty, I Iike it. I wish being monogamous was as good a quaffing...

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Drunk Beer Naming Party Invite Please

Drunk Beer Naming Party Invite Please

Wag the Wolf. What the hell does that mean? I think sometimes these breweries have drunk beer naming parties. I wish they would invite me to one. I have a couple of choice names in mind. So as for the wolf beer, on the can it says it’s a white IPA. What the hell kind...

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Wicked Yes

Wicked Yes

I once stayed at a hotel called the Urban Hip Hotel and it was neither. Anyone who is cool doesn’t call themselves cool, someone else has to. The same way that someone who is an asshole doesn’t call themselves an asshole (notice my political correctness with gender...

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