February 20, 2025

30/4511) Home:  Big Sexy by Refined Fool Brewing of Ontario:  ***1/2; 6.8%, 50 ibu IPA; “a sexy Westie”; opaque with sediment; nose of melon and citrus; dry, nearly astringent bitterness with notes of melon and citrus;

February 17, 2025

29/4510) Home:  Shop Talk by Furnace Room Brewery in collaboration with Stockyards Brewing both of Ontario:  ***1/2; 5%, 30 ibu American Brown Ale; “Collab Series”; with adition of oats; hopped with El Dorado and Chinook; rich deep brown; piney, nutty hose; pine, coffee, chocolate, and nutty flavours; a bit like a dark IPA;

February 16, 2025

28/4509) Home:  Boiler Plate by Furnace Room Brewery of Ontario:  ***; 6.2%, 40 ibu New England IPA; grain bill includes wheat and oats; hazy; dry tropical nose; dry, slightly dank with mild tropical flavours;

February 14, 2025

27/4508) Home:  Hazy Roy:  4 Hazy Boy by Refined Fool Brewing Co. of Ontario:  ****; 6%, 30 ibu; brewed with wheat and oats; hazy; nose of orange, pineapple and lemon; mostly pineapple flavours with orange and lemon in the background;

February 13, 2025

26/4507) Home:  Death Row by Refined Fool Brewing Co. of Ontario:  ****; 7%, 20 ibu fruit punch IPA; with wheat, oats, “real mango, pineapple and blood orange”; Comet hops; hazy; nose is a fruit salad of orange, mango and pineapple; tastes of orange which is especially prominent at the finish but otherwise much as the nose;

“...pays tribute to the lives of innocent fruit by featuring their remains in a beer”

February 11, 2025

25/4506) Home:  I Wish Doug Was More Like Gary by Refined Fool Brewing Co. of Ontario:  ****; 5.3%, 45 ibu; Midwest IPA;  Lotus and HBC1019 hops; cloudy; aromas of orange and lemon; flavours of orange, lemon, white grapes;

“We’ve heard this sentence often enough to know it needed to become a beer.” and

“Share with Doug, hide from Gary.

February 8, 2025

24/4505) Badlands' Greenhouse:  February DIPA (2025) by Badlands Brewing of Ontario:  ****; 8.2%; hopped with Peacharine and Nelson Sauvin; murky, orange gold; nose of peaches, white wine; mildly sweet peach and white wine flavours;