December 15, 2022

226/3943) Home:  Habanero In Your Face by 5 Paddles Brewing Company of Ontario:  6.2%, 45 ibu Spicy IPA:  ***1/2;  with wheat, oats and habanero peppers; pours yellowy gold, mildly hazy; aromas of citrus, particularly grapefruit; sweet grapefruit with mild burn throughout – like a citrusy salsa;

This is day 15 of the calendar.  Beers 15 through 21 appear below.

227/3944) Home:  Mandelbaum by Goose Island Brewhouse of Ontario:  ***1/2; 6.2% West Coast IPA hopped with Ontario grown Centennial and Cascade as well as Columbus and Simcoe; golden, somewhere between hazy and cloudy; citrus nose with a piney edge; blend of resiny pine and citrus;