Pale Ales

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...

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...

My first thought when I saw 360 was I wonder what 5 days of the year we shouldn’t be drinking this brew on and was today one of them? Then I thought “I guess a February 29th is right out.” Then I thought “today is a day, it might as well be the day!”* Sleeping Giant...

When you think of English bitter you may picture Harry and Meghan*, but an English Bitter is in fact an English Pale Ale and most aren’t that bitter at all. English bitters may have been the original session ales, easy drinking and light. Maybe you are looking for...

A new brewery (for me) is Radical Road Brewing based in Toronto. I had a chance to try one of their offerings - a tasty pale ale called Yuzu. It combines some flavour from the Yuzu fruit with a pale ale. It's a winning combination. We've got a decent Pale Ale with...

Rad* used to be what we hung our wet winter clothes over to get them dry. Now I guess rad means cool or super.  Pig also has taken on a few slang meanings which I won’t go into here, but in this case it refers to Clark the Pig, the mascot of Thornbury Crafts and local...

I picture a grizzled old prospector, chipping away at the Canadian shield in the 1860’s and shouting out Eureka, then heading off to the local pub for an ale. This seemed like a fitting brew to kick off the local mining week. The Bancroft area has a storied history of...