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Grolsch Premium Pilsner

A bit lighter & cleaner than Grolsch but it is still malty and thin. View > beer.

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2017)

Holding in there; coffee is faded but it’s as chocolatey as ever 😋

Porter

Roast, molasses. Nothing special. I’ll take a Clifford over this any day.

World Wide Stout (2023)

Sweet, boozy chocolate and cherry roast. Very, very sweet. At least it’s not oily or thick like a The Bruery.

Lou Pepe Framboise (2013)

Tart, lush and very well balanced. Delicious. Thank you Will.

Monk's Brew

Sweet. Caramel, toffee but mostly cereal grains. Mediocre.

Breakfast Stout (2023)

Delicious. Deep coffee & dark chocolate flavours. Still a reference for coffee stout for me. Delicious. Coffee wise the beans from Traffic (Montreal) are phenomenal. In my top-3 for roasters in Canada right now.

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2019)

Still, a bog standard BBA imperial stout any brewery should aspire to, at scale & price point. Roasted coffee bean, sweetish dark chocolate & just hints of caramel and coconut - still about the stout and not the barrel or diabetic sweetness. Holding up.

Cuvée Saint-Gilloise (Champions) (2014)

Easily, the most disgusting cork I’ve ever seen. Oozy, inky black mold puddle 1/8” thick between the crown cap & cork. Mold in the cork. I drank it, still. Stunning: candied marmalade like fruit, herbal hop notes. Crushable as it’s more lush than sour.

Backwoods Bastard (2023)

Sweet & caramely

All Day Crimson Sky

Thin, caramely & cloying. Simple.

All Day West Coast

Wow, this is a *nice* beer. It’s super clean and dry. Spruce mostly/spruce almighty 🌲with a bit of pine. Very boreal. Frank this is minutes. It’s really, really good.

Utopias Barrel-Aged 120 Minute IPA

Hello - found you! Massive caramel, toffee, and British biscuit cookies with vanilla icing in between. Super tasty.

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2019)

Half bottle, half nitro can. Drinkable as all hell; like a nitro pour. Don’t hate the player, hate the game 😂

KBS

Ghetto Péché Mortel Bourbon, on nitro. 2/3 KBS for body & flavour + 1/3 Guinness for smoothness and nitro. It’s cracker. Can I get a hell ya, Ronnie Falcon R. & Steven

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2016) 12.4%

Almost dead. Dry, drying, faint coffee and austere as it warms.

All Day IPA

Haven’t had this on tap in ages. Delicious. Light, biscuity malt, almost British bitter like. Clean & balanced. Delicious.

By Udder Means

Smells like roasted marshmallow & cacao. Quite grapey. Roasty on the palate, a bit smoky, great balance between the vinous cacao, smoke, roast and bitterness. Just a bit of sweetness to balance it all out. Very good beer. 👍🏻

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2016) 12.4%

Sweet and caramely at this point. More caramel than dark chocolate and the coffee is long gone. Drink up and she ain’t getting any better.

Mamouche (2018)

Loads of elderflower. Must be a full stem press/ferment since it’s got the florals and is super complex, and good. Super generous of Kayla.

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2017)

Pure cherry; tart; great balance between fruit & funk

Cuvée Saint-Gilloise (Champions) (2015)

Some more tea notes with age, but the lemon zest & shiso leaf notes are still there. Zippy. Stone fruit galore. Lush & balanced. Many thanks Kayla!

KBS Espresso

Decent BBA stout, rich chocolate and coffee. Quite good, overall. But I like this at $4 a bottle not $8. Raining, yes, but it’s a gorgeous 19°C + the freshly damp greenery smells just amazing. Also a northern cardinal + a song sparrow are singing. 🙂

KBS Espresso (2021)

Loads of coffee. Very chocolatey. It’s nice but really one-note and caramely. Tastes like a Mondelez/CPG product.

60 Minute IPA

Well deserved after a day of chores and exercise. Cheers 🍻

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2017)

Pure, clean dark chocolate, toasted coconut, coffee up front and midway; turns caramel & cappuccino on the finish, and just so sweet, sickly cloying mess. Totally the opposite to the garbage BBA stuff Ontario breweries are turning out.

All Day IPA

Hits the spot on this cold wet day

Festival Special Edition 2011 - Stella 2

Gueuze-like. Tart berries & bone dry. Delicious. Thank you for the pull Alex B.

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2019)

The best bottle I’ve had, perhaps because it was in the back of the fridge since release. Pure dark chocolate, coffee & Bourbon barrel. My kind of session beer.

Blushing Monk (2015)

Raspberry syrup. This monk needs to get to Westmalle or Westreleven and stop worshipping Satan.

Kriek Mariage Parfait

Faint funky cherry aroma. Light body; tastes about half as intense as it should. This marriage has been to a separation agreement.

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2017)

Chocolate, coffee & coconut. Holding up really well. Maybe the best bottle of the ‘17 so far.

All Day IPA

Such a great American IPA, day in and day out. There’s no good beer without good brewery people: Happy Labour/Labor Day, all! 🍻

Kriek Mariage Parfait (2008)

My word this is good. Slightly more cow pasture than dried cherry fruit… it’s almost as old and decrepit as I like my red wines that throw terroir. Focused black and red cherry fruit; intense: dry but so rich and lush you perceive sweetness. Amazing.

All Day IPA

Crisp, clean, hoppy. Not malty, hazy, or tasting like melon or orange ice cream. Delicious!!!!

Oude Kriek Boon (2008)

Cellar pull, and thank you Ted for this beauty. Pure, crystalline Morello cherry, here. A bit of horse’s blanket but the brett is minimal i.e. no horse undercarriage or horse no.1. Some leather, forest floor & dried leaves. Beautiful package.

Backwoods Bastard (2016)

Last bottle. Bought 8 on release at the source. Muddy like the Detroit River. Coffee, barley sugar, dark chocolate. Drinks like an old school old ale. Delicious.

Backwoods Bastard (2016)

Drinks like a light version of Firestone Walker Anniversary Ale. Toffee, figs & coconut. Not gonna get any Buffalo Trace or any Bourbon barr

Canadian Breakfast Stout (CBS)

Goes for a quick spin with my spent vanilla beans (ex-vanilla extract, but still pack a lot of flavour). What a delicious combo, unless you’re a vanilla hater 😁

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2016) 12.4%

Chocolate sauce & caramel & a bit of coffee - at this point. Bourbon and barrel gone. It’s a delicious stout but probably makes to hold onto only for verticals.