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great article about the rise of the ipa in the globe & mail and yay chris for being the poster boy of hops!

ron dyck, the marketer for cannery brewing was at firefly on friday evening to do a tasting. he brought the cannery line featured in the mixed six pack with him, as well as the limited release wildfire ipa and seasonal maple stout. i of course had several tipples of each, because you want to make sure that the quality remains the same from can to can and bottle to bottle just trying to be the best beer taster i can be you know, taking one for the team and all that.... i am really very in love with the wildfire dark ipa and everyone i've shared some with is loving it too and its working for me as a session beer gotta love it when someone does the black ipa right! (even if i'm supposed to call it a cascadian brown ale now) cannery only makes one batch of it a year, so when it's gone, there won't be more until next year good thing i bought another six bottles... i quite enjoyed the maple stout as well for a sweetened beer, i didn't find it overly sweet ...

phillips black toque india dark ale holy malty first sip! gotta love the cascading action on the pour though not a finer sight in the world! don't get me wrong, i like lots of other sights too, but none are finer the bottle says:  "big hop flavours complement this rich dark ale in this ultimate example of fusion between some of our favourite styles of beer!" 6.5% now, before anyone informs me that the black toque has been discontinued and is now the skookum cascadian brown ale, let me just say that this bottle has been at my house for about a year now and i have been remiss in drinking it in a timely fashion but i gotta tell you, i liked it better when it was black toque and called an india dark ale i am assured its the same beer in the bottle and what's in a name, a rose is a rose by any other name and all that but i can't help having a preference, okay? " Previously known as Black Toque: our Black Toque India Dark Ale has undergone a bit o...