Beer
raydan @ Mon Mar 25, 2013 3:57 pm
Twice now I've mentioned local weather and you've finally caught on. 
BartSimpson @ Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:00 pm
raydan raydan:
Twice now I've mentioned local weather and you've finally caught on.
Exactly. And I'm only talking about ice wine from California. I'm sure I've had other ice wines but the ones I've had locally are the only ones whose production method (artificial freezing) I'm acquainted with.
raydan @ Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:09 pm
We have NO problems freezing the grapes on the vine around here.
BartSimpson @ Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:43 pm
raydan raydan:
We have NO problems freezing the grapes on the vine around here.
That's too funny!
Around here the freezes are not always consistent. Mrs. Bart typically has to force our daffodil and tulips every so often by refrigerating the bulbs before planting.
Winter 2011/2012 had some serious hard freezes here while 2012/2013 has been typically 'California' for us.
PluggyRug @ Mon Mar 25, 2013 7:10 pm
I buy Lakeport Red....cos I'm a cheap basterd.
Sunnyways @ Sat Nov 28, 2015 6:28 pm
Has anybody tried Red Racer's Gingerhead stout? Very interesting stuff. The spiel on the bottle talks about cinnamon, chocolate and ginger notes but all I can taste is pipe tobacco. I usually miss all these subtleties and now I seem to be tasting something that isn't there. Opinions, please.
CDN_PATRIOT @ Sat Nov 28, 2015 7:07 pm
Necro.
But....
I'm not big on any domestic beer. I'll buy Moosehead if I really want some,
otherwise I only drink European beer. It's much better than what we have here.
My faves: Heineken, Spaten, Lech, Lowenbrau, Faxe, Holsten.
-J.
Sunnyways @ Sat Nov 28, 2015 7:27 pm
My world faves::
Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Beck's
I will give anything Belgian a try. Always different.
London Pride.
Guinness. For the memories. Or lack thereof.
My current top of the entire list - German Weissbier e.g. Konig Ludwig, Erdinger
Weihenstephaner
My non-faves:
1. IPA. Just cannot get that stuff down. So bitter I want to cry. The Americans have gone over the edge of reason with the hops.
2. Porter Baltique. Ordered a load of it through a beer club because I essentially had to and got unpleasantly hammered. Tastes like decomposed sherry.
In Newfoundland, we don't get much interesting Canadian beer in the Government liquor stores. I am not a big fan of Muskoka or Mill Street beer. Blanche de Chambly is my favourite Canadian beer.
raydan @ Sat Nov 28, 2015 7:52 pm
Depanneur de la rive... close to 1000 different beers... almost all micro-brews from Québec.
ShepherdsDog @ Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:00 am
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/flavour ... -1.3364635
$1:
Interesting is one word for some of the beer flavours out there right now.
Some of the more outlandish are coming from craft brewers in the U.S., and they include Oregon's Rogue brewery with its Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale.
Southern Tier brewing has a crème brûlée-flavoured stout.
Wynkoop oyster stout
Wynkoop Brewing Company of Colorado, where bull testicles are known as 'Rocky Mountain oysters,' attracted a lot of press coverage when it introduced its Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, made with real bull testicles. (Wynkoop Brewing Company)
Wynkoop brewing's Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout is made with malts, barley, hops and "25 lbs of freshly sliced and roasted bull testicles."
Seriously.
Here in Canada, Barrie, Ont.'s Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery — whose catch phrase is "Normal is weird" — has dozens of flavoured beers, from stouts that taste like coconut or even birthday cake to Orange Mungus and Bizzango Mango Island, both fruit/vegetable beers.
Some of the more outlandish are coming from craft brewers in the U.S., and they include Oregon's Rogue brewery with its Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale.
Southern Tier brewing has a crème brûlée-flavoured stout.
Wynkoop oyster stout
Wynkoop Brewing Company of Colorado, where bull testicles are known as 'Rocky Mountain oysters,' attracted a lot of press coverage when it introduced its Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, made with real bull testicles. (Wynkoop Brewing Company)
Wynkoop brewing's Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout is made with malts, barley, hops and "25 lbs of freshly sliced and roasted bull testicles."
Seriously.
Here in Canada, Barrie, Ont.'s Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery — whose catch phrase is "Normal is weird" — has dozens of flavoured beers, from stouts that taste like coconut or even birthday cake to Orange Mungus and Bizzango Mango Island, both fruit/vegetable beers.
2Cdo @ Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:32 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/flavoured-beer-trends-1.3364635
$1:
Interesting is one word for some of the beer flavours out there right now.
Some of the more outlandish are coming from craft brewers in the U.S., and they include Oregon's Rogue brewery with its Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale.
Southern Tier brewing has a crème brûlée-flavoured stout.
Wynkoop oyster stout
Wynkoop Brewing Company of Colorado, where bull testicles are known as 'Rocky Mountain oysters,' attracted a lot of press coverage when it introduced its Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, made with real bull testicles. (Wynkoop Brewing Company)
Wynkoop brewing's Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout is made with malts, barley, hops and "25 lbs of freshly sliced and roasted bull testicles."
Seriously.
Here in Canada, Barrie, Ont.'s Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery — whose catch phrase is "Normal is weird" — has dozens of flavoured beers, from stouts that taste like coconut or even birthday cake to Orange Mungus and Bizzango Mango Island, both fruit/vegetable beers.
Some of the more outlandish are coming from craft brewers in the U.S., and they include Oregon's Rogue brewery with its Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale.
Southern Tier brewing has a crème brûlée-flavoured stout.
Wynkoop oyster stout
Wynkoop Brewing Company of Colorado, where bull testicles are known as 'Rocky Mountain oysters,' attracted a lot of press coverage when it introduced its Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, made with real bull testicles. (Wynkoop Brewing Company)
Wynkoop brewing's Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout is made with malts, barley, hops and "25 lbs of freshly sliced and roasted bull testicles."
Seriously.
Here in Canada, Barrie, Ont.'s Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery — whose catch phrase is "Normal is weird" — has dozens of flavoured beers, from stouts that taste like coconut or even birthday cake to Orange Mungus and Bizzango Mango Island, both fruit/vegetable beers.
None of those are beer. Just umbrella drinks for metrosexual half-men.
raydan @ Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:41 am
I'd have to be dead before you'd be able to pour one of those beers in me... even then, I'd probably spit it out. 
2Cdo @ Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:48 am
raydan raydan:
I'd have to be dead before you'd be able to pour one of those beers in me... even then, I'd probably spit it out.
I heard that you always swallowed.
But other than that I agree with your assessment.
DrCaleb @ Thu Dec 31, 2015 1:39 pm
2Cdo 2Cdo:
None of those are beer. Just umbrella drinks for metrosexual half-men.
I guess my German ancestry comes out in me at such times. Water, grain, yeast, hops. These things together make beer.
Sweetbreads are not on that list!!
BartSimpson @ Thu Dec 31, 2015 1:45 pm
I'm partial to a old style stout or a porter. Foo-foo beers just don't do anything for me.