beernesday

i took advantage of my free beer coupon last week and visited the charles its quite a swank new pub in the woodwards building not sure if its owned by the same folks as pivo, but they're related somehow the food menu looks amazing not that i tried any of it, my visit was strictly a beer occasion but i sure was tempted the beer list is nothing to write home about and certainly not as good as pivo's but it was decent and we enjoyed our free pints of the whistler pale ale heck, we even had a pitcher after we drank our freebies! love the bathrooms! they are all single stall affairs with contained sink four of them i believe, down a hallway half marked for women, half for men and boy, were they ever nice! lots of big screen televisions great lighting and comfy seating i might just go there again! oh, and the woodwards original w is just outside the door!

that's right, i'm not done talking about hopscotch yet! how about we talk about whiskey and food today?  and then throw in a little beer chat at the end, because this is afterall a beer blog! hopscotch is known for being a great festival to try new brands of scotch, whiskey and other spirits especially the expensive ones that perhaps you can't afford to try other places i stayed away from most of the hard liquors because i'd been pounding back the beer and just didn't want to prove once again that the old adage "beer before liquor, never siquor" is totally true but.... these guys we met and beer geeked out with totally insisted that we try an ontario whiskey moderately priced and soooo smooth so like the good little sheep that we are, we hustled right on over to the forty creek stall and tried us a couple of their copper pot distilled double barrel aged whiskey the double barrel reserve with deep vanilla notes, toasted aromas of pecan and walnu...