Pale Ales

142 Reviews

Slake Me

Slake Me

Hatch? A belated Easter review perhaps. You can’t be late for Easter, people will get cross.* This brew has hatched a scrawny plucked rooster with a comb already in place. Maybe the hatchery is near a hydro line or a nuclear power plant? Wrong, this brew is hatched...

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If You Want Blood, You’ve Got It*

If You Want Blood, You’ve Got It*

Reading the fine print is not my forte. So when I saw the name on this brew I thought about Grissom and his CSI UV light** tracking blood spatter around a crime scene, and I thought of Bud Light***. So I had in my mind a light (although hopefully not as mild) lager...

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Tropical Travels or Travails?

Tropical Travels or Travails?

Lake of Bays tell us that if we are a Day Dreamin’ fan (the beer or the activity) that this will be our next stop. A brew infused with T.Kettle and tropical fruit, it is supposed to be just our cup of tea in a tropical paradise. Of course I’m not a tea steeper and...

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1969 “Flash”backs and Back Tracks

1969 “Flash”backs and Back Tracks

1969 was quite a year for rock music. Woodstock was 3 days of peace love and mud, with the notorious Altamont * at the other end of the peace and love spectrum. The Beatles parked their Yellow Submarine on Abbey Road and Bowie was a space oddity. We were introduced to...

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Hauntingly Familiar

Hauntingly Familiar

Editor’s Note: Our “craftsman” RA does some ghostbusting on this one. This beer name seemed hauntingly familiar and it turns out it is not our first ghost ship. Black Sail was sighted on the horizon previously and hauled in a good review.   The brewer Adnams Sothwold,...

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Nailed It

Nailed It

Having a fireside chat with a Square Nail Pale Ale. Crankin’ up the wattage at the cottage. Today square nails are what manicurists do. But way back in the day, when there were square nails and snail mail, I remember as a kid building the cabin down by the lake with...

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An Admirable Admiral

An Admirable Admiral

Although this Admiral may be stern, he should take a bow, because in any port his ship has a star aboard in this brew. Now that I have exhausted my nautical vocabulary on a useless mnemonic, its time to get down to some serious beer reviewing with this beer of the...

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An English Bay at the Ports

An English Bay at the Ports

Hey Portsmouth House, we are plugging your bar on this worldwide website! There should be beer drinkers lining up right around Le Grange (the street, not the ZZ Top bordello*) soon for The Ports. The least you can do is pour my old buddy Rick a cold one on the house!...

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The Pale King?

The Pale King?

You don’t hear the expression “up for a challenging read” much these days, but if you ever are David Foster Wallace delivers the goods. “The Pale King” is a light read as far as his novels go at 540 pages compared to “Infinite Jest” which weighs in at 1079.  These...

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Hazy Headline

Hazy Headline

The bear on the can with the hands of a man is reading the North Bay newspaper from February 20th, 1945. In addition to news of Allied victories on many fronts (Germany surrendered on May 7 1945) the other major headline would have been the downtown blaze that burnt...

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