"Flavoured beer" Christmas - Wynchwood Brewery

Mood: first Christmas brew of the season! Impress me! 

Where to Buy: LCBO

Price: $3.40

Beer Type: Flavoured beer

Ingredients: water, malted barley, cinnamon flavour, yeast

Country: Oxfordshire England  

%: 5.0

ml: 500ml

Appearance: Ale colour, not quite a light, not quite an amber

Smell: malt and slight molasses

Taste: What a neutral ale! I was expecting cinnamon 101 since it's an ingredient, but no! It's a brown kinda tar tasting beer, not much cinnamon flavour but definitely a slight spice to it. 

Mouthfeel: starts off bubbly and turns creamy 

Finish: like a chlorinated pool (wtf??) with a hint of ale and a hint of spice, not much though, I need to breath in and out my nose in order to get a flavour!

Overall: great packaging, shitty beer. Nothing special about it and not worth the price tag either! Guess it's that price because it's imported :(

5/10

Highballer Pumpkin Ale - Grand River

Mood: I'm in my Jammie's all nice and warm. Maybe a brew would do. 

Where to Buy: LCBO

Price: $2.50 (on sale 0.50 off)

Beer Type: flavoured ale

Ingredients: water, barley, malt, pumpkin, hops, spices

Country: Galt, Ontario 

%: 5.2

ml: 650ml

Appearance: Light coloured beer

Smell: light beer with a hint of pumpkin spice

Taste: Bitter like an ale, slight pumpkin spice flavour but gives way to bitterness afterwards

Mouthfeel: very bitter, foamed up a bit afterwards

Finish: bitter and then gives way to an almost bread flavour at the back of my throat. Still feeling the bitter minutes later

Overall: I mean I get it. It's an ale. Ale has that kinda bitter taste, but I didn't really taste much pumpkin or spice, it honestly just tasted cheap... So a no go for me. 

5/10

Saison Dupump - Great Lakes Brewery

Mood: it's a Tuesday and I'm thirsty... Let me reach for some wat- BEER

Where to Buy: LCBO

Price: $

Beer Type: Belgian Ale (saison)

Ingredients: water, malted barley, hops, yeast, pumpkin and spices

Country: Toronto, Ontario 

%: 5.2

ml: 650ml

Appearance: Light coloured beer

Smell: light beer with a hint of spice

Taste: Mild and not bitter (as I was expecting) there is a mild pumpkin spice flavour, and I like that. Everything was very balanced and mild and nothing overpowering. 

Mouthfeel: clean and crisp, foamed up a bit at the end

Finish: nothing really, just clean. At one point I thought I was drinking water with a slight beer, pumpkin spice flavour.

Overall: very impressed for a Toronto beer, lived up to the pumpkin spice I was looking for but lacks richness. I would probably say this is my favourite pumpkin fall beer to date. But will review close to same time I drink st Ambrose pumpkin beer as well. 

7/10

La 6 strong beer - Brassuers du monde

Mood: it's a Monday and I miss Montreal. Let's have some beer!

Where to Buy: Montreal

Price: $4.50

Beer Type: strong beer with sour candies

Ingredients: ??

Country: Montreal, Quebec 

%: 6.0%

ml: 500ml

Appearance: Beer with an ever so slight reddish hue

Smell: sour fuzzy peaches 

Taste: Mild Quebec beer with a sour fuzzy peach tang. Very refreshing.

Mouthfeel: pinchy and sour (like candy!) if I could name it (again) it would r a sour fuzzy peach type deal. 

Finished: nothing in particular as an aftertaste except a sour lingering taste. Like candy that's been eaten and is already in my tummy :) enjoyable. Not beer heavy 

Overall: very refreshing, clean, and crisp. Doesn't taste like I'm having beer rather a sour type of juicy beer. Of course Quebec does it again with amazing beer selections. My rating reflects beers I ha e had from Quebec. Compared to Ontario they get all 10's. 

7/10

Tylenol PM - Review

I've always had issues with drugs... No no not those kind of drugs, over the counter sleep aids to be exact. I'm not sure if I just wasn't taking the right dose, or I just react differently than the average joe, but when I used to take a sleeping pill once and a while (sleepovers mainly) they usually didn't do much for me unless there was alcohol involved also. And even then... I remember my first experience with sleep eez. And my second. And my third. Basically a wave of calm would come over me. Almost like a bob Marley song could play right then and there and it would fit my mood "everything... Gonna be alright"... But through all that lack of movement and calm, I was still awake. Eyes closed. But awake. The whole night...

So I guess that back story wasn't really needed, but let's just say I came upon some bad BAD news a few years ago, and a friend recommended Tylenol pm to me. I took the recommended dose, 2 tablets. And went to bed. 

I instantly fell asleep. HAAAAAALELUJIA! But wait. I woke up 2 hours later. In a panic attack. My body was panicking because I was too calm. Everything was yes moved slower. My body moved at a snails pace. All the while my brain was FREAKING OUT. Thank god at that time I was going through my counselling degree so I talked myself down, normalized the feeling, and grounded myself in my living room. When I finally went back to the bed I forced myself to close my eyes and poof. I was out like a light again. 

The next time I decided to try it I took half a pill. Less than half the reccomended dosage, and for me, that's enough (most of the time). I like that it has a calming sleepy effect, just enough to make me want bed, but not enough to freak me out and make me panic. 

And if it doesn't work? There's another half I can take next to me on my dresser.

Rating? Since I haven't tried anything else and still have a few to review (free from social nature, but I was too chicken to actually try them when I was given them) I'm gonna leave it at a 9/10. Leaving a little wiggle room.

Pros: controllable dose, calming, sleepy sensation, works well with alcohol, can control my dose, not restless, even when I wake up at night I feel sleepy and go back to bed. 

Cons: sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes I wake up sleepier in the morning, sometimes I feel tired in the day... Oh and supposedly long term use can cause memory loss.. These are all not enough to keep me from taking this. 

Erable (maple beer) - St. Ambrose

Mood: Maple beer from Montreal! Much appreciated. 

Where to Buy: deppaneur AS (Montreal)

Price: $11.50 - 4 pack of bottles

Beer Type: maple beer

Ingrdients: water, malted barley, crystal malt, toasted wheat, natural maple flavour, hops, Quebec maple syrup 

Country: Montreal, Quebec 

%: 4.5%

ml: 341ml

Appearance: maple syrup! Aka Amber 

Smell: beer with a hint of sugary maple

Taste: maple beer, kinda sweet, a lot like honey brown from whistler, but with a more pleasurable maple. Bitterness to the undertone

Mouthfeel: starts out pinchy, moves to creamy when kept in mouth. 

Finished: bitter. In all areas of my mouth but mostly my tongue. Leaves a nice sweet taste and a breath in of maple. 

Overall:  what a great addition to the st Ambroise crew of beers. Always a good beer that they create. It isn't perfect but I definitely like the flavours that they offer now. Would probably taste great with the pumpkin beer! 

7/10

Lunch Money Lager - Collective arts

Collective arts - lunch money

smell - fresh and slightly citrusy, crisp.

mouth feel - crisp and clean, slight ipa but nothing unbearable. the longer it stays in my mouth the more creamy it gets 

between a clean regular beer and an ipa note. enjoyable probably in the summer and nice and cold.

finish - bitter in my throat and on my tonge. clears off afterwards, becomes almost nothing...

overall not a bad beer. but not good either. hard to taste what it's attempting, very light, which makes sense because it's 4.8%.

7/10 u enjoy the cans too. probably too expensive for what I actually got out of it

Blonde Ale (Ten12) - Nita Beer Company

Ten12 - Nita Beer Company

Mood: I'm home, I'm bored, let's try something new!

Where to Buy: the beer store (Kingston)

Price: 2.50

Beer Type: blonde ale

Ingrdients: 

Country: Ottawa, Ontario

%: 5.0%

ml: 473ml

Appearance: light and ale like

Smell: like lager in a can... No real difference 

Taste: kinda tinny, like the cheaper beers I used to buy in the can and test for under $2.00. Not impressed but also nothing too good or too bad, just meh. 

Mouthfeel: tiny pokeing daggers again, very frat boy cheap beer tasting. Sitting in my mouth there are bubbles but they are thin and not creamy. When swallowed slightly bitter. 

Finished: bitter weirdness at the back of my throat. Again. Nothing special. Nothing to write home about. 

Overall: I bought it because the can was pretty awesome. Unfortunately the beer wasn't as awesome. Just meh. If it was super cheap I would buy again, or if I found another cool can design I would buy again. Aside from that a no go. 

6/10