January 6, 2024

8/4235) Home:  Darren's Internet Search History by Refined Fool Brewing Co. of Ontario:  ***1/2; a 7%, 25 ibu "Melon IPA" hopped with Belma, Cashmere and Enigma; pours opaque; honey coloured; nose is melon with citrus; flavours are melon and berries;

9/4236) Home:  Thunderous Applause by Badlands Brewing of Ontario:  ****; 6.5% IPA; hopped with Nelson Sauvin and Galaxy; murky, nearly swampy; nose is mostly pineapple; tastes of pineapple with berries;

January 5, 2024

5/4232) Badlands' Greenhouse:  Degausser by Badlands Brewing of Ontario:  ****; 6.5% IPA; dry hopped with Citra and "Nelson"; murky; nose is peaches; tastes of peaches and melon;

Badlands defines degausser as "the process of reducing or eliminating an unwanted magnetic field (or data) stored on tape and disk media such as computer and laptop hard drives, diskettes, reels, cassettes etc."

6/4233) Badlands' Greenhouse:  January DIPA (2024) by Badlands Brewing of Ontario:  ****; 8.2%; it was described to me as "hop salad”, to be specific it is hopped with Galaxy, Idaho 7 and HBC 586; grapefruit, mixed citrus nose; mild dankness is offset by sweet citrus; 

7/4234) Home:  Van Full Of Weirdos Juicy IPA by Refined Fool Brewing Co. of Ontario:  ***; 6.2%, 30 ibu; “Simcoe heavy”; cloudy; nose is tropical and citrus; mild citrus and tropical, a bit subdued for my liking but it  may not have been fresh;

January 4, 2024

4/4231) Home:  Tracksuit by Refined Fool Brewing Co. of Ontario:  ***1/2; 45%, 20 ibu; SMASH (Single Malt And Single Hop)IPA; hopped with Nectaron; pours hazy; nose is peach and pineapple; peach, pineapple and grapefruit flavours;

January 3, 2024

3/4230) Home:  Home:  Nothing To See Here by Refined Fool Brewing Co. of Ontario:  ****; 6%, 28 ibu East Coast IPA “with Cryopop!”, "a supercharged hop"; mildly hazy straw colour; nose is peach and grapefruit; tastes of peaches and grapefruit with a hint of pine;

From Refined Fool's IPA Fun Box ,7th Edition.

January 2, 2024

2/4229) Home:  True North Imperial Stout by Magnotta Brewery of Ontario:  ****1/2; 8.0%, 37 ibu; nose is dark, unsweetened chocolate and dark coffee; tastes of semi sweet chocolate and bitter, nearly burnt, dark coffee; the remarkable thing is there are only four ingredients - no adjuncts, no barrels, just a top notch Imperial Stout;

January 1, 2024

1/4228) Home:  Dora #65 by Badlands Brewing of Ontario:  ****; 6.5%; an effort to reduce the amount of particulate; still murky; nose is citrusy, flavours are similar but "cleaned up” with fewer distractions from the hop flavours;

December 30, 2023

266/4227) Bar Volo:  When I Worked At Volo by True History in collaboration with Volo, both of Ontario:  ****; 6.4% Baltic Porter; roasted malt nose; hearty, roasty with coffee notes; it's a lower abv than I am used to seeing in a Baltic Porter but the flavours do not suffer for it in any way;