beernesday

I'll be on CBC Radio One's On the Coast this afternoon. And I'll be giving away this bad boy to one lucky listener: It's 6 litres of Unibroue's La Fin du Monde goodness - 9% trippel-style golden ale that you're going to have to share with some worthy friends! If you don't win this bottle, you can buy yourself one, but you've got to hurry, they're a special limited release by Sleemans. If you're in Ontario , you can also get these monster bottles, but there are only 50 of them available!

oh the r & b hoppelganger what a lovely local ipa and a great way to get my hop fix i was reminded of my love for this brew at wild rice the other night i was there for a wedding reception and the host bar offered keiths or sleemans honey so that's what i drank until they ran out once i was on my own, i very happily switched to the ipa nothing makes me happier than an ipa especially an aggressively hopped ipa my night ended well! so well in fact that i decided to have another hoppelganger the other afternoon sitting outside on the deck in the october sunshine in a tank top sipping hoppelganger with a good friend what a great way to spend a couple of hours! from the bottle: "rick and barry (r&b) invite you to try our hoppelganger india pale ale.  we created our ipa for beer lovers who appreciate an assertively hopped brew.  well-balanced with a skillful combination of five hop varieties and premium english malt, hoppelganger has the generous flavour a...

i had cause to be out and about near 10th and alma, and in need of sustenance, so i stopped in at Browns Social House.  i'd never heard of this chain before, and can't imagine why not.  i guess i just don't get out as much as i'd like to pretend i do. their beer selection leaves an awful lot to be desired, but the atmosphere and the food were pretty fabulous.  and the bathroom was pretty darned wonderful, and you know how i like a good bathroom in my drinking establishment. featuring only granville island, okanagan spring 1516, guinness, sleeman's honey brown and grolsch on tap, they also carry the following bottles:  coors light, kokanee, sol, sapporo, guinness and strongbow.  like i said, not much of a selection.  they do offer sleeves of the taps for $3.95 or pitchers for $14 on sundays and mondays.  the "social lager" specially brewed for them by granville island brewery tasted pretty much the same to me as regular gi lager, but at only $4.95 ...