The final beer of this year’s isolation-inspired 8 Beers of Chanukah is brought to you by clever packaging and a name that made me snag this beer by Refined Fool Brewing Co. from Sarnia, ON. A Brut IPA weighing in at a hefty 7.6% ABV, I nearly burned the apartment down after 2 sips when… Read More
We’re officially past the halfway point today on this year’s 8 Beers of Chanukah, so it seemed like a logical choice to me to sample a beer from The Napanee Beer Company, as the Greater Napanee area is roughly halfway between Montreal and Toronto. It’s not the most logical argument, but this is a beer… Read More
We’re at the halfway mark for this year’s edition of the 8 Beers of Chanukah, and I’m feeling nostalgic for the warmer months of 2020, where we did a lot of hiking around southern Ontario since it was one of the few pandemic safe activities we could enjoy. A summer of intense hiking lead to… Read More
On night 3 of our isolated 8 Beers of Chanukah, we venture to the suburbs of Ottawa (virtually) for a Canadian Pale Ale made by Tuque de Broue Brewery from the Franco-Ontarian town of Embrun, ON. La Tuque Dorée is a pale ale that weighs in at 4.5% ABV and retails at $3.75 for a… Read More
We are quite late writing about any of the amazing Black is Beautiful beer campaigns that made the rounds this summer. Friends, please know that we see you, we hear you, and this was not a willful omission, but rather we haven’t been updating as much during the pandemic as sitting down to write a… Read More