Posts Tagged: Ontario
Ontario: Dark, Hockley Valley Brewing, Mono-Adjala Townline
Posted by on Sunday, February 26, 2006 in - 7 comments
A great day yesterday...perhaps. Under the judicious but incomprehensible plan for the parcelling out of microbrews of Ontario by the LCBO, Kingston got a 2-4 of Hockley Dark Ale. One whole case. Importantly for understanding the dark world of Ontario micro distribution, Sgt. Major IPA was nowhere …
Ontario: Two Seasonals, Heritage Brewing, Ottawa
Posted by on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 in - 2 comments
Heritage Brewing Limited in Ottawa is a small eastern Ontario brewery which has yet to get a review from me. Why? My brother buys it. So what! Well, its just one of those things. I visit from time to time and he has Heritage dark in the fridge. And probably Hoegaarden if its summer. Once he had a …
Ontario: Rogers' Red Coat Pale Ale, Glenora, Prince Edward Co.
Posted by on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 in - 5 comments
New to the LCBO in a 650 ml bomb. • The graphics are very nice and honour a Loyalist unit from the era of the American Revolution that operated in northern New York and the Canadian St. Lawrence river valley. • Sadly, I cannot recommend this beer. It is sharp and cidery. Again, I can only hope …
Ontario: Stratford Brewing Company, Stratford, Perth County
Posted by on Sunday, January 8, 2006 in - 4 comments
This weekend I made a discovery while looking for things to do while visiting family...OK, my in-laws. Right there in little Stratford Ontario was the Stratford Brewing Company. At the south end of town in a small industrial park area at the back of a building there it was...a van, a man and a set …
Ontario: Pilsner, Steam Whistle Brewing, Metro Toronto
Posted by on Monday, November 14, 2005 in - 4 comments
Every once in a while I have a lager and then I remember that I don't like lagers much. You may have noticed this in the reviews set out here. But I have been meaning to try Steam Whistle for sometime to make sure I am not missing something good and local. • Good thing as this is my kind of …
Ontario: Triple Chin Irish, Glenora Springs, Prince Edward Co.
Posted by on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 in - 3 comments
This maybe a bit of an odd ale. But not bad but at least maybe overly named in full as "McKinney's Triple Chin Irish Dark Ale". For me a dark ale ought to be malty like Neustadts 10W30. This example of MTCIDA is not malty but rather a bit cidery and even strawberryish. This is accentuated by a hop …
St. Veronus, Peterborough, Ontario
Posted by on Sunday, September 18, 2005 in - 13 comments
So we went to Peterborough yesterday to see old friends and we had lunch at St. Veronus, a cafe/bar with a subtitle: "Belgian beer temple"...truer words were never writ. We are now looking for jobs in the Peterborough area. • So unaccustomed to great selection, great service, reasonable prices …
Ontario Craft Beer Route
Posted by on Thursday, July 28, 2005 in - 3 comments
Interesting to note that Ontario, through the LCBO and Ontario Craft Brewers, has witnessed the launch of a beer route for beer related tourism. This is similar to the idea moving through New York's legislature that we read about last month. The LCBO, the province's semi-monopoly on hootch supply …
National Six-Pack XI: 10W30 Dark Ale, Neustadt, Ontario
Posted by on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 in - 17 comments
The trouble with Ontario is really expressed in its beer distribution system: it is too big. Half the nation lives here, half the office space and half the bears as well. It goes from the arctic to the Carolinian forest, from the western prairie to a few miles from Montreal. The effect on beer …
National Six-Pack IX: Holy Smoke, Church-Key, Ontario
Posted by on Monday, February 14, 2005 in - 6 comments
You have to love the fancy packaging. When you can only buy the bottles at the brewery, however, I guess you have already attracted the audience. The packing tape is a very nice touch. Eleven bucks for a six when you buy two. On tap at many finer brew bars in Ontario. • This is a really good …
