Old style lager - Muddy York

Mood: this week just started and I'm already tired AF. 

Where to buy: Muddy York Brewery

Price: 3.10

Beer type: American lager 

Ingredients: I'm not sure... it just said old

Lager ???!

Region: East York, Ontario

%: 5

ml: 355ml

Appearance: Golden brown

Smell: like the beers I used to steal in the basement. I wanna say they were blue? Bud? Heineken? 

Taste: ok now I understand what old style lager is. It's basically the crap I remember stealing from my dads stash when I was younger. Basic Blue or Bud beer. 

Mouthfeel: crisp and clean. With a hint of 1980z 

Finish: bitter in my throat, I sense this is the theme from this brewery... 

Overall: what a waste of 3.00. It's like the bargain beers I used to drink when I first started this blog and wanted to find something under... $2.00? 

4/10 old school cheap beer! won't be going to this brewery to pick this up.

Coconut porter - Muddy York

 

Mood: this week just started and I'm already tired AF. 

Where to buy: Muddy York Brewery

Price: 3.31

Beer type: Porter

Ingredients: water, malted barley, wheat, toasted coconut, hops, yeast. 

Region: East York, Ontario

%: 4.7

ml: 355ml

Appearance: dark brown

Smell: sweet porter. Like sugared coconut 

Taste: first sip is sweet coconut porter, but it goes away very quickly to just be a porter

Mouthfeel: turns into a smooth cream in my mouth, quite lovely! 

Finish: bitter in my throat almost a dirty water aftertaste. 

Overall: Not bad, but not good. Out of the porters ive had in my day this is probabaly one of the better ones. But over time I'm noticing more and more that porters just aren't my thing. Not worth the far drive for this one. 

6/10 - it's ok, won't be going to this brewery specifically to pick it up though. 

"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

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

Cream Soda Beer - Storm Brewing -$8.00

Mood: Crap, has it be a week? Does a growler go bad after a week?!?!?

Where to Buy: Storm Brewery

Price: $8.00 a fill

Beer Type: Pilsner with Creme soda flavour?

Ingrdients: ?

Country: Canada (Vancouver, BC)

%: ?

ml: 946ml

Appearance: ale coloured

Smell: Creme. Soda. 

Taste: Creme soda in frat beer

Mouthfeel: watery, flat. 

Finished: bitter, like a mixed drink was added to my beer (whiskey or vodka)

Overall: they have very unique flavours and I did drink this a little late, meaning I was probably flat. Will give them another chance due to the great price for a craft beer. 

7/10