January 13, 2024

19/4246) Home:  Double Choc Hazelnut Brown by Bad Shepherd Brewing Co. of Australia:  ***1/2; 7.2%, 32 ibu; with Pahto hops, which as far as I can recall are new to me, hazelnuts, and cocoa; a double chocolate variation on their Hazelnut Brown; pours a deep rich brown with a pale tan head; nose is chocolate and hazelnut; tastes of semi sweet cocoa, sweet hazelnut with faint roast notes;

20/4247) Home:  Tropical Feel by Grain & Grit of Ontario:  ****; 6.3% India Pale Ale with wheat and sugar; tropical fruit nose; similar flavours; very pleasant;

January 12, 2024

17/4244) Home:  Winter Wizard by Nickel Brook of Ontario:  ****; 6.2%, 52 ibu “Magical India Pale Ale”; grain bill includes wheat and oats; pours hazy; nose of resin, zest and tropical fruit; tropical fruit is more forward in the flavours with citrus zest, grapefruit and resin;

18/4245) Home:  Chocolate Milk Peanut Butter Porter by Imperial City Brewhouse of Ontario:  ***; 6.2%. 30 ibu; brewed with lactose, natural flavours and artificial flavours; nose is primarily peanut butter; tastes mostly of peanut butter with notes of chocolate, caramel, espresso; a bit sweet for me;

A couple of sweet dark beers.

January 11, 2024

15/4242) Home:  Nautical Disaster by Lake of the Woods of Ontario:  ****1/2; a 7%, 55 ibu Double IPA version of an earlier entry; with “Triple C hops” which I take to be Cascade, Centennial and Columbus; translucent, nearly clear; grain bill includes malted barley, malted oats and flaked corn; resiny, grapefruit nose; tastes of resin, pine, grapefruit; very old school;

16/4243) Home:  Gus by Volo of Ontario:  ****; 5.4%, 30 ibu Porter in the English style; “Named after Grandpa Gus who loved dark ales”; sweet coffee, mocha nose; roasty, mildly sweet coffee notes with a hint of mocha;

Purchased at Bar Volo and recommended by the barmaid.

January 10, 2024

14/4241) Home:  Two Pad Stack by Sawdust City of Ontario:  ****1/2; 9%, 60 ibu Imperial IPA; brewed with flaked wheat, Simcoe, Citra, Chinook and Nectaron hops and California yeast; collaboration with beer blogger Drunk Polkaroo; billed as “an old school West Coast IIPA”; clear; nose is citrus, grapefruit; tastes of grapefruit, dank, resiny, mildly off-set by malty sweetness;

Three strong IPAs.

January 9, 2024

13/4240) Home:  Yummo by Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery of Ontario:  ***1/2; 6.3%, 24 ibu Citrus Punch IPA; dry hopped with Superdelic, Rakau, Riwaka and Mosaic; conditioned on papaya, apricot, Cara Cara and orange purees; also brewed with pineapple juice and wheat; plenty of sediment, looks like a pulpy orange juice; I strained it and filtered it; fruity, citrusy, zesty nose; I am experiencing all the fruits listed with a  mild bitterness; shame about the sediment;

January 8, 2024

12/4239) Home:  Squishy by Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery of Ontario:  **1/2; 6%, 24 ibu Marshmallow IPA with wheat, “sugar(lactose)’, vanilla bean and natural marshmallow; hopped with Idaho 7 and Sabro; dry hopped with Idaho 7 and  Mosaic; clear; sweet marshmallow and vanilla nose; absurdly sweet vanilla and marshmallow flavours;

January 7, 2024

10/4237) Home:  Gloop by Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery of Ontario:  ***; 6.1%, 27 ibu Breakfast IPA, hopped with Mosaic, Idaho 7 and Citra and dry hopped with Nectaron, Citra and HBC586; also brewed with wheat, oat malt and “Natural Tutti Frutti Flavour”; pours clear, golden; nose is vanilla, peaches; tastes of  vanilla throughout as well as, peaches and tropical fruits with a  dry, nearly bitter finish; reminds me of another recent Flying Monkeys effort whose name escapes me; 

From their IPA Box Set.

11/4238) Home:  Meep Morp by Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery of Ontario:  ***1/2; 6.7%, 40 ibu “High Density Hop Charge IPA”; brewed with wheat, hopped with Ekuanot Cryo, Idaho 7, El Dorado, Citra and Mosaic Incognito and dry hopped with El Dorado, Mosaic and Citra; mildly hazy; fruit salad nose of citrus and tropical; mildly, but not overly, sweet tropical and citrus;