125 Reviews
A summer stout? So it is. The barn raisers, field grazers and navel gazers at Quayle’s have offered up an ice cream dessert stout, sweet. And this one sounds as Canadian as a Stanley Cup drought. Maple syrup jacks up any flap jack, and cold coffee sounds like the...
The last 8.6 we tried was a contrarian Bavarian. I was expecting German and got Holland. I was expecting an IPA and got an IPL. As far as the 8.6 name goes, nothing too complicated about that. Their flagship Lager is 8.6% ABV, “intense by nature” they call it. ...
Maybe OJ’s juice went sour, but if you’re a Chicago Bears fan your memories of Walter “Sweetness” Payton are still just as sweet.* This is an oh so sweet segue to another dessert stout sampling! Oft times these after dinner stoutly suds have crossed the sweetness...
Emerald Stout! A stout from the Emerald Isle? Nope, a stout from the grocery store aisle. Right beside the Buble (not Bublé) and the Canada Dry, it’s another entrant into our COMDB zero percent experiment. Against the good advice of Dr. Alex Speers * we are pouring...
Vimy Brewing is dedicated to brewing “true Canadian beer that celebrates everything great about Canada”. I’ll drink to that! * The brewery is named after the World War 1 battle site of Vimy Ridge where Canadian forces achieved a decisive victory, but at a high cost....
After an exhilarating day of white-water rafting there’s nothing quite like a nitro loco cocoa stout. Of course I wouldn’t know about any of that, I’m a two-motor boater of the wet the net variety, paddling is so passe. But perhaps this super sweet fudgy brownie brew...
If you’re thinking of buying some chocolates for the missus this Valentine’s Day, a little friendly advice. Shop early, because I expect this Cowbell special is going to create a chocolate shortage in this part of the world. This one is a loco cocoa imperial storm...
“Leann Folláin” sounds like a Galway girl to me, with raven black hair and eyes of blue. But the Carlow crew tell us that it’s actually a Gaelic phrase for “wholesome stout”. * O’Hara’s Irish Nitro Stout was oh so good, I thought to myself would their Extra be too...
It’s Christmas Eve eve. No that’s not a holiday greeting in the Garden of Eden, but a redundant day before Christmas eve moniker.* Beli-eve Eve? It also seems like an ideal eve for a chocolate stout, because after all what Cranky Old Christmas countdown would be...
Time for the daily grind, just catching up on my brew reviews with my first java jolt of the morning. When it comes to coffee I’ll never catch up to Farmer Steve who is probably just finishing his first pot. Meanwhile Fonger is still dreaming about the pot from the...