1/3351) Home: ICE COLD BEER by Left Field Brewery of Ontario: **1/2; 4.5%; "100% Ontario Ale"; pours clear; sweet, nearly lagerish; extra half star for the back story; a typical lawn mower blonde ale, grassy, ever so mild hops; it is hard to be too harsh, plainly this is what they were aiming for;
Named in honour of a beer vendor at Toronto Blue Jays games for many years. You can see him on YouTube. He never had my brand but he was a big part of Blue Jays' games for many years.
2/3352) Home: 10₵ Beer Night by Left Field Brewery of Ontario: ****; 7.8%, 93 ibu; a Double IPA brewed with wheat and oats added to the malt bill and Nelson Sauvin and Citra hops; nose is dank and tropical; dark resin largely overshadows the tropical notes, berries and melon;
This is another great story. well covered on YouTube. It is hard to imagine that no one imagined that anything could go wrong. Given the name, I will not enjoy responsibly!
There are a couple of reasons for the switch from a three star rating system to the five star scale. First off it matches the tasting journals of which I have received so many of late.
The three star method was used in the Great Lakes Brewing News which I used to pick up free of charge when I was in Toronto, usually at C'est What. Regrettably, they published a mildly controversial article at some point. I found it juvenile and sophomoric. I turned the page. This, however, was not enough for the faux-outrage Twitter mob who decided on everyone else's behalf that no one should be able to read this or anything else printed in Great Lakes Brewing News. They were cancelled.
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