Winnipeg’s Half Pints likes to mix things up. When they do Oktoberfest, they come up with all sorts of ways to spice it up – including smoked malt and, well, spices. So when their summer release of Weizenheimer came out,… Continue Reading →
The “hot” beer of the summer has to be White IPA. It went from nowhere a couple of years ago to everywhere this year. It’s growth in popularity really is something else. It shouldn’t be too surprising. It has a… Continue Reading →
One of the finds this summer that made me most happy is discovering boxes of Gahan beer on my favourite liquor store shelf. Gahan, now officially called PEI Brewing Company, is, as you might guess, the red island’s only brewery…. Continue Reading →
You gotta hand it to the folks at Paddock Wood. While most breweries are doing fruit wheat ales, saisons or witbiers for their summer seasonals, Paddock Wood has the nerve to release a porter in the summer. And not any… Continue Reading →
Whenever I go on a trip, I make a point of bringing home some local beer to sample post-unpacking. With all of my travels this summer, I have quite the full beer shelf at the moment. In the coming weeks,… Continue Reading →
By now most beer fans will have heard about Vulcan Ale, the collaboration beer between Pluto’s Moon Beer Company and CBS Television (the rights holder to Star Trek), contract brewed at Harvest Moon Brewing. Actually the business arrangement is more… Continue Reading →
Sometimes beer takes you to unexpected places. This summer I have fallen under the spell of a light, fruity beer (yes, Virginia, I said fruity) that seems ideal for summer sipping. This is no blueberry wheat beer or some such… Continue Reading →
The latest Alley Kat Dragon single hop double IPA is Gold Dragon, using Galena hops. It has been out for a few weeks now, my sampling of it delayed by my Europe trip. I did finally get around to taking… Continue Reading →
A little while ago I picked up a bottle of the collaboration beer Hopfen-Weissen between Brooklyn and Schneider. I tried it on a lark, not sure whether it would be more like a White IPA, with its pleasant blend of… Continue Reading →
I am usually a bit tardy getting around to sampling new releases, what with life busy-ness, being too lazy to trek to the liquor store and wanting to watch consumption levels. Often I don’t get to a new beer until… Continue Reading →