Duncaster Park

Grassy, herbaceous, complex. Delicious.

Purchased at Tailgunner Brewing

Such a solid Beer Store beer. Solid. Clean. Slightly bready - more like crust on just-baked break. Lovely. / Yeah it’s raining but that’s what an awning is for. Northern Cardinals & Red-breasted Nuthatches chirping & at the feeder - absolutely blessed 😇

Purchased at The Beer Store

Solid everyday Helles/lager 🌞 ☀️ 😎

Purchased at Stockyards Brewing

Infected. Vinous (red wine BA) smell however the taste is worse: red wine vinegar. Acidic. Faint coconut. Low carb - almost flat. It’s not the bottleshop as the beer cooler is always cold. Poor QC here.

Purchased at Durand Coffee

A bit malty and not hoppy enough for the malt weight. It’s a decent sports bar lager. 0C/32F is just mild enough for a jacket-free 🍺 outside

Purchased at Durand Coffee

The 12 Days of Christmas is all great and that, but a true love would gift the other a bunch of beers in any tree. Cold beer 🍺 + warm 🌞

Purchased at Godspeed Brewery

Yeah, it’s short sleeve 👕 weather in February. So warm I had to rip off the sweater. Nice malt body, clean, almost faint plum fruitiness. It’s a solid everyday Helles, and being beyond the curiosity of Beer Store customers, had 8 months of shelf age.

Purchased at The Beer Store

Earned the Hella Delicious! (Level 20) badge!

Earned the Parks & Beer (Level 47) badge!

Pale, almost clear. There’s muddled citrus & pine, but it’s neither hop flavourful nor bitter. Not an IPA - it’s a watery supermarket pale ale. Won’t try this again for at least a couple years.

Purchased at Nickel Brook Brewery

Miss these guys already. Another craft casualty during COVID; basically just The Granite now doing proper British ales in Ontario. Figs, roasted nuts, at first and then entirely ethyl alcohol - like sterilizer. Didn’t age well. But I still miss them.

Purchased at Crooked Bottle Brewing Co.

Very grainy. Mostly grain. Extremely caramely - as in corn syrup caramely. Mostly Foam if we’re talking about Burlington VT’s Foam. I don’t like that Foam, either.

Purchased at Durand Coffee

Crisp, clean and hoppy. Very nice. -12°C tonight but not even close to -15°C in Montreal. Cold weekend coming! ❄️ 🧊

Purchased at Godspeed Brewery

It’s a pleasant enough Czech Pils. Light on the body (not even close to Pils Urquell, say), with nice bitterness but I’m missing the earth spice from Sääz hops - which I know well from homebrewing days. Solid 3.25 but not feeling the hype like many others

Purchased at Godspeed Brewery

Oversweet and not especially complex, but for 4 bucks I can’t complain too much. Chocolate brownie & butterscotch on the palate with some buttered toast on the finish. 3oz is enough for me.

Purchased at Brewed & Bottled Craft Beer Shop

Earned the Wake Up and Smell The Coffee! (Level 35) badge!

Generic hazy base beer with some medicinal hop flavours. It’s bad. And the movie f&$king sucks too Might not be the last drainpour of 2022 - I still have loads of time left

Purchased at Brewed & Bottled Craft Beer Shop

Smooth & chocolatey. Carb is superb on this - almost like cask ale. Getting full quickly on beer, so it’s on the wine next.

Purchased at Wellington Brewery

Sweet, watery, thin, simple. Kind of insulting to the ESB style.

Purchased at Bobcaygeon Brewing Company

Tastes like milk chocolate. It’s like a low-abv brown ale, not a porter. Decent for the abv.

Purchased at Brewers Blackbird

Tastes like milk chocolate. It’s like a low-abv brown ale, not a porter. Decent for the abv.

Purchased at Brewers Blackbird

Earned the Year in Beer (2022) badge!

This is the real deal. Roasted chestnuts, toffee, walnuts, coffee. Brilliant. Nearly 12% and backs it up with the body but is light, almost weightless. No diabetes syrup thickness like Founders, The Bruery, etc, etc. Solid. OG purchase Nov, 2015.

Purchased at North Coast Brewing Co. Taproom & Grill

This is the real deal. Roasted chestnuts, toffee, walnuts, coffee. Brilliant. Nearly 12% and backs it up with the body but is light, almost weightless. No diabetes syrup thickness like Founders, The Bruery, etc, etc. Solid. OG purchase Nov, 2015.

Purchased at North Coast Brewing Co. Taproom & Grill