July 11, 2017

230/2048) Home:  Upper Reaches Pale Ale, a collaboration between Central City of British Columbia and Beau's All Natural Brewing of Ontario:  *1/2;  6%, 20 ibu;  brewed with peach juice and spruce tips;  nose is mostly spruce with peaches in the background;  tastes like a cough drop;  very sprucy with some peach at the finish;  bitter after taste;  somehow this is oddly compelling;  I just might try it again, given the opportunity;

231/2049) Home:  Bouclier Canadien, a collaboration between Central City of British Columbia and Le Trou du Diable of Quebec:  *1/2;  5%, 40 ibu;  pours a clear straw colour;  new world hops get around my main concern about pilsners;  grassy, leafy nose and flavours;

Bouclier Canadien translates as Canadian Shield, an interesting Canadian geological feature.  In the day we were taught that it was created during the ice age by a glacier scraping the topsoil south and exposing the rock but current thinking may differ.

We are into the second installment of Central City's collaboration series.