October 10, 2014

On the occasion of my 1000th post I thought it would be interesting to take a look up at the audience.

Not surprisingly, Canadians are the most frequent viewers followed by Americans. Germany comes in third place.  Russia is fourth followed closely by France.  Sweden sits comfortably in sixth with the United Kingdom in seventh.  The final three spots of the top ten are a race between Turkey, Poland and Malaysia.

In terms of browsers, Internet Explorer is in first place but with less than 50% of the page views attributed to it.  Just over a quarter of views are on Chrome and 18% are on Firefox.  Seven other browsers make up the remaining seven percent.

In terms of operating systems, Windows reigns supreme at 72% of views with Linux at 13%, Macintosh at nine percent and seven other systems at one percent or less.

October 9, 2014

Still no sign of the Richmond Adelaide Centre 3 Brewers but I did learn a couple of things today, beyond the fact that this year there is no special Oktoberfest menu.

First off, the bottles are gone.  I did like La Belle Province and while the others were on my list I never did try them and my reason may be a pointer towards why they stopped making them. , These were 750ml bottles and they were uniformly of higher than usual alcohol content so either they were the only drink of the lunch or you needed to be accompanied by someone of similar taste to share a bottle with.

Further, the seasonal selection has been replaced by the neighbourhood beer, different for each location.  Readers will recall that I favoured Oakville's over Toronto's Yonge and Dundas brew.

October 7, 2014

235/1216) C'est What:  Mild Mannered Reporter by Forked River Brewing of Ontario:  **; a 3.8% English mild with a sweet, bready nose;  malty with a touch of fruity hops;

This is brewed in London, Ontario.

October 6, 2014

234/1215) Home:  Scottish Ale by Highlander Brew Co. of Ontario:  **; 5.4%;  sweet and malty with a grainy finish and a sweet after taste;

October 4, 2014

233/1214) C'est What:  French Press Stout by Double Trouble Brewing of Ontario:  **1/2;  4.8%, 30 ibu;  sweet mocha nose;  rich delicious mocha flavours with a sweet finish;

October 3, 2014

OK, we really are little more than poseurs.  Yet again, the media has pretty accurately summed up our crowd.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/pfizer-releases-vintage-caskaged-robitussin,37092/

October 2, 2014

232/1213) Monk's Kettle, Etobicoke:  Red Racer ESB by Central City Brewing of British Columbia:  **;  5.5%;  very hoppy for an ESB;  strongly hopped nose, flavours and after taste;  if truth be told, it's more of an IPA than an ESB in my humble opinion;