March 17, 2026

76/4822) Home:  Saintly by Fairweather Brewing of Ontario:  ***1/2; 4.1%, 4 ibu Dry Irish Stout; dark with a tan head; roasty aromas; mildly sweet and roasty; uncommonly thin mouth feel; 

We are instructed to “Shake the can & pour vigorously.”

March 16, 2026

75/4821) GLB Brewpub, Toronto:  Rookie Card by Great Lakes Brewery of Ontario:  ****; 6.5%, 28 ibu Debut Pale Ale/American style pale ale with oats and wheat; pours clear; peach, white wine nose; wine is muted in the flavours;

March 15, 2026

74/4820) Home:  Double Monogamy by Bellwoods Brewery of Ontario:  ****; 8.5% Double IPA exclusively brewed with Peacharine and Peacharine hop Kief; added oats and wheat; cloudy; strong peach aromas; mostly peach flavours with a hint of citrus; hop kief is a cryogenic dry hop product;

March 14, 2026

73/4819) Home:  Winter Dunkel by Whistler Brewing of British Columbia:  ****; 5%, 24 ibu; with wheat malts, Nugget, Challenger and Williamette hops, chocolate, orange and coriander; featuring 100% organic chocolate from Whister Chocolate Co.; orange zest and coriander added during the boil; chocolate and orange aromas; a festive beer, very much a chocolate orange style like Terry’s with chocolate with sweet orange notes;

March 13, 2026

71/4817) C'est What, Toronto:  The Day We Hit The Coast by Sawdust City of Ontario with Microbrasserie 5e Baron of Quebec:  ***1/2; 7% West Coast IPA brewed with keen euphorics, Motueka and Nectaron; hazy, golden; peaches and pine nose; dry flavours of peaches, pine, hint of citrus, lingering dry after taste;

72/4818) C'est What:  Decadence Milk Chocolate Stout - Cookies and Cream by Rorschach Brewing Comapny of Ontario:  ***1/2;   7% cookies and cream stout; “contains dairy”; pours black with little head to speak of; very sweet coffee nose; flavours of vanilla and coffee;

March 11, 2026

70/4816) Nickel Brook Etobicoke Taproom:  Peppermint Stout by Nickel Brook of Ontario:  ***1/2; 4.5%; deep rich brown; nose is toasty; peepermint mostly appears in the flavours;

March 10, 2026

69/4815)  Home:  Fruit Helmet by Bellwoods Brewery of Ontario in collaboration with Evil Twin Brewring of New Yorkm U.S.A.:  ***1/2; 6.5% IPA with fruit:  gollden raspberry, peach and mango puree; also oats; yellowsih brown, swampy; nose of citrusy hops, raspberries, peach and mango; rather tart owing to the raspberries, with mango overshadowing the peaches; 

On seeing me drinking this murky one my  wife asked if I had opened the mahgo juice she had bought that day.