How fitting that the last night of Chanukah falls on New Year’s Eve this year. It’s been 8 crazy nights of beer, and tonight we bid adieu to a craptacular year. I’ve had a beautiful 500 ml bottle of Rainhard Brewing Company‘s gorgeous Bourbon Barrel-Aged Hearts Collide Imperial Stout hiding in my fridge for a… Read More
Thor’s Hammer is a pretty badass name for a beer. I think I would have been happier if they called it Mjölnir instead because I’ve got a bit of a fetish for umlauts. In any case, we’re in the home stretch of Chanukah and I’m pulling in the big guns here. We don’t write about… Read More
Nothing says Happy Chanukah and Merry Christmas like… Frankenstein? Actually I’m sure Frankenstein may have spun a dreidl or two in his day. If you’re like me, you’ve got to work a few times this week – random days, in no particular order. And Kole has been puttering around the house in a bathrobe all week,… Read More
It’s my holiday, so I’m allowed to branch out and include non-Ontario beers on this one. There’s no rhyme or reason to my choices – I usually hit up the Summerhill LCBO and come away with more than 8 beers that I must narrow down as I go along. I buy things that look tasty,… Read More
On the fourth night of Chanukah, there were hops. Juicy, delicious citra hops. Calgary’s Big Rock Brewery has been hard at work opening new Toronto outposts in Etobicoke and Liberty Village this year. The Liberty Village bottle shop is now open, with plans to open a brewpub in the space well under way. We love the… Read More