We picked up a can of The Hamilton Brewery‘s flagship Blue Collar Pale Ale recently, since we went hiking a few times in the Hamilton region during the extended beautiful fall we are having. It retails for $2.95 at the LCBO for a 473 ml can, and this brewery was new to us. In Toronto,… Read More
We absolutely love hiking the trails around Brickworks. They are beautiful and have the added bonus that once you are done your hike you can reward yourself with a drink! That’s how we first tried Ernest Cider. Ernest uses local apples (duh!) and a touch of local honey. Generally I find adding sweetener to a… Read More
Oh man, has it really been two years? In that time we’ve done hundreds of reviews, attended tons of events and generally wrote about a hell of a lot of locally hand crafted alcohol. This year our top review is that of Batch 1905 by Brickworks. Our top non-review was our experience post on… Read More
This handsome devil is shaving his beard off and growing out a beautiful mustache! Why? To support cancer research and men’s health. That’s right, it’s MOVEMBER time! Our friend Alex is a survivor of a men’s cancer and we want to raise money so that good people like him no longer have to worry that… Read More
Sake is not the kind of alcohol I thought I would find being produced here in Toronto and yet here I am, writing a review for it. You see, IZUMI, otherwise known as the Ontario Spring Water Sake Company, is a sake maker based out of the Distillery district. I am reviewing Nama Nama, a… Read More