51/3401) Home: Old Chub by Oskar Blues Brewery of Colorado, North Carolina and Texas: ***1/2; 8.0%, 30 ibu; a Scotch Ale/Wee Heavy brewed with seven different malts and "a smidge of US and UK hops"; one of the malts is a beechwood smoked malt from Germany; pours a deep rich brown; nose of caramel, alcohol and smoke; tastes of sweet caramel and toffee with a faint hint of fruit and very mild smoke towards the finish; full bodied;
52/3402) Home: Defiance by Stonehooker Brewing Company of Ontario: ****; 7.3%, 65 ibu; a West Coast IPA from Stonehooker's Transom series; "A throwback to the start of the revolution of beer"; named for a schooner that sailed Lake Ontario for 68 years; pours clear; nose is orange and resin; fresh citrus at first then resin and finishes rather sweet;
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