July 25, 2021

216/3566) beerbistro:  Southpaw by Left Field Brewery of Ontario:  ***1/2; 7% NEIPA with Motueka and Taiheke hops from New Zealand; this was a sample poured from can; 

Today was a "mini fest" put on by the beerbistro.

217/3567) beerbistro:  Absolute Truth by Rorschach Brewing Company of Ontario:  ****; an 8% Imperial IPA; this is an amped up version of their Truth Serum IPA; brewed with wheat and oats; hopped with Citra, Mosaic and Simcoe; pours cloudy;

218/3568) beerbistro:  Decadence S'more Milk Stout by Rorschach Brewing Company of Ontario:  ****; 7%; brewed with chocolate, roasted malts, oats and lactose; conditioned on freshly roasted coffee beans, graham crackers, cocoa nibs, marshmallows and vanilla beans;

219/3569) beerbistro:  True Grit by Rainhard Brewing Co. of Ontario:  ***;  a 4% Farmhouse ale/Saison; this was a sample poured from can; musty, fruity nose; tastes peppery, mildly musty;

220/3570) beerbistro:  Karma El Dorado by Great Lakes Brewery of Ontario:  ***; a 6.6% IPA; single hop;

July 23, 2021

215/3565) Big Rig Kitchen & Brewery:  Razzle Dazzle by Big Rig of Ontario: **; 4.6% wheat beer with raspberries; very grainy nose; tastes grainy with hints of raspberry, perhaps it was a tiny bit skunky;

July 20, 2021

214/3564) Home:  Amplitude & Frequency, a collaboration between Third Moon Brewing Co. and Beerlab, both of Ontario:  ****; an 8.0% Double IPA; all Mosaic T90 pellets; opaque, blondish; nose of pineapple and other tropical fruits;  flavours of pineapple, guava and mango;

July 19, 2021

213/3563) Home:  Limitless Feelingless by Third Moon Brewing Co. of Ontario:  ****; 8.0% DIPA; grain bill features oats; hopped with Cryopop, a new hop from Yakima Chief, Galaxy, Simcoe, Citra and Talus; nose of orange juice with a hint of piney resin; tastes of oranges and resin with a touch of tropical flavours;

July 18, 2021

212/3562) Home:  Conjuration 6 by Third Moon Brewing Co. of Ontario:  ****; a 6.5% New England IPA; grain bill is 50% oats; hopped with Strata and Nelson Sauvin; pours a turbid, orange; nose of peaches and berries; tastes mostly of berries with some stone fruit;

Conjuration is a series of experimental IPAs.

July 17, 2021

211/3561) Home:  Lifeblood by Third Moon Brewing Co. of Ontario:  ***1/2; an 8.2% Double IPA with lactose brewed in collaboration with Brand of Sacrifice Metal, a division of Vox and Hops Brewtal North America; hopped with Citra, Cryo Ekuanot, Nelson Sauvin and Ontario grown Chinook; pours a murky and thick orange colour; nose is melon and tropical fruit; tastes of melon, dank pine and sweet tropical fruit with a bitter finish and after taste;

I needn't have feared the lactose.

July 13, 2021

210/3560) Home:  Juice Cloud IPA by Mill Street Brewery of Ontario:  ***; 6.6%, 70 ibu; unfiltered; brewed with organic malted barley and wheat as well as three New Zealand hop varieties:  El Dorado, Mosaic and Hallertao Blanc; pours cloudy, yellow; citrusy, grainy, not quite so juicy as the name might lead one to expect;