142 Reviews
For those of you who think the South Channel is a TV station that features Nascar, Jeff Foxworthy, and Trisha Yearwood’s cooking show, you stand corrected. This South Channel refers to a body of water in Georgian Bay near Parry Sound, not coincidentally home to...
I picked up this saison farmhouse ale at the farmer’s market in Gravenhurst, which seems to make sense to me. The young lady from Katalyst was so nice to deal with, it was just a small reminder of how great craft brewery people are. As opposed to cranky old reviewers...
Catchy name that Wizard Wolf, and it got me ruminating and pondering if a wolf was a wizard what wizardly deeds would he do? We all know from Harry Potter that you’re not a real wizard unless you’re casting spells. So I got thinking about what HP spells a wolf wizard...
Another beer of the month club selection, Spunky Monkey Smash is apparently named after a mini-putt in Smith Falls? I was out golfing the other day, hacking and slashing my way down the course, back and forth like a sailboat tacking against a strong wind. Someone with...
I'll pass on the flowery introductions to this beer like some of my cohorts like to put in.* This beer has a definite citrusy hit on the first sip. Followed by a nice backbone of subtle maltiness. Nice. Refreshing, not over the top. Just a nice tasting beer. Subtlety...
North meets South. Norwegian hops meet New Zealand hops. As far as North of New Zealand goes, that narrows it down to 192 countries and everyone in the world except for some penguins freezing their asses off in Antarctica*. The can depicts what I think are the...
Morris APA is another offering from a small Prince Edward County Brewery, Gillingham. If you like good beer*, and you are in Prince Edward County, this is definitely a location to add to you itinerary. This is small batch brewing with focus and talent. This is an...
Having not been to Benihanas recently my Japanese was a little rusty, so I couldn’t recall what Jutsu meant and had to look it up. According to the Wiktionary it is “a bound morpheme of the Sino-Japanese lexical stratum of the Japanese language.” What the hell does...
Hot sunny afternoon, BBQ is fired up, a brew is in a chilled glass and tunes are on the deck. It's griller time. My BBQ deck is the one place in the world where I am king, the last bastion of cranky old men drinking beer everywhere. Unless of course it's a very...
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...