If any of you guys are like me, your top beers are an ever changing and evolving mash up list of stuff you've been longing to try and pleasant surprises you hadn't foreseen. I thought it could be fun to have a monthly thread where we share our top 5, that way we'll all get to know each others tastes, if they're similar, different and therefore might be enticed by a certain brew if a fellow BA has it on their monthly list If your list doesn't vary much, so be it! 1. Nickel Brook - Immodest 2. Dieu du Ciel! - Péché Mortel 3. Dieu du Ciel! - Herbe à Détourne 4. Driftwood - Fat Tug 5. Unibroue - Maudite
Right now, if I could have any Canadian beers that I've previously tried in my fridge, they would be: 1. Pit Caribou IIPA de la Sorcière version 2 2. Isle de Garde Double Black Rye IPA (just had this at MaBrasserie on tap and it's fantastic) 3. Four Winds IPA 4. Unibroue La Fin du Monde 5. La Tribale Double IPA (when it's fresh fresh fresh) BONUS: Mons Belgian blonde is one of my go-to summer beers from a lesser-known Quebec brewery, even if it doesn't quite rate with the others.
Haha, we all have those! Blonde de Chambly holds a special place in my heart as far as under-appreciated summer beer
My top 5 of the year so far: 1. Auval Super A 2. Benelux Chronique de Mars 3. GLB Robohop 4. Dunham Saison Reserve 5. Bellwoods Farmageddon batch 9
I have a hard time coming up with a list from memory; too many good beers. My Top 5 Canadian beers imbibed so far in 2016 are: Bellwoods Lambda Moon Under Water Goldamsel Auval Super A Dunham Stout Imperiale Russe Bourbon Exociste aux Mures (loved this...)
Ok - right now since it's getting warmer my top 5 would be: 1. Fat Tug 2. Red Racer 3. Black Bridge Brewery IPA 4. La Trou du Diable Mactavish in Memorium 5. Driftwood New Growth Pale Ale (I love this beer but no one seems to talk about it :-)) If I could get it where I live Rebellion IPA would be on the list as well.
I did a big trade at Founders KBS release and I'm looking forward to drinking the beers I got from Bellwoods, Grerat Lakes, and Nickle Brook. So far mine are: Peche Mortel Roman Candle Aphrodisiac La Fin du Monde Bring Out Your Dead
Speaking purely local from this April I'd say in no particular order: Bridge Side Cut 4W Nectarous Bomber RIS 4W Phaedra 4W Exil D'Eden
1. Bellwoods Farmageddon #10 2. Trou du Diable Saison du Tracteur 3. Unibroue 17 Grand Reserve 4. GLB Lake Effect 5. Les Trois Mousquetaires Hors Série Gose
The Entangled X 2 is no error; it gets my top two spots for April’s Canadian favorites Entangled Hopfenweisse Driftwood Brewery Entangled Hopfenweisse Driftwood Brewery Village Friend Dandy Baltic Porter Village Brewery Barrel-Aged Cherry Porter Wild Rose Brewery & Taproom Not Looking For A New England IPA The Dandy Brewing Company
True, this is a very nice quad. Not sure I'd put it above Rochefort 10 or Chimay Grande Réserve, but it's definitely more Canadian than those two are! I'll have to try the new Mons quad to see how it stacks up, it just started showing up on shelves around here.
Only 5, that's tough. I'll go with my current go-to's in no particular order: 1. Driftwood Fat Tug 2. St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout 3. Orange Snail Jasper16 IPA 4. Collective Arts Stanger Than Fiction 5. Dominus Vobiscum Lupulus On a side note, I just tried Bellwoods Jelly King (dry-hopped sour ale) and it was pretty damn good.....
1. Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel Bourbon 2. Trou du Diable Dulcis Succubus 3. Bellwoods Bring Out You're Dead 4. Auval Super A 5. Les Trois Mousquetaire Porter Baltique (Édition Spéciale)
A lot of love for Fat Tug! Love it. I enjoyed that one, but would have to say, for me Nickelbrook - Immodest GLB - Drunk Octopus Bell City - Eureka Cream ale GLB - Lake Effects Amsterdam - Fracture (one of my all time favs.. Have to put it on here as I just finished one)
Am only going to go on the last week Disco Soliel Derniere Brett Fat Tug Saison Tracteur Corne du Diable Had the Bench Creek Pale ale tonight nice.
I mostly drink homebrew anymore but some of my favourite commercial beers this year have been: Bellwoods - Barn Owl #3 Great Lakes / Amsterdam - Life Sentence (close enough to this year!) Driftwood - Fat Tug Bellwoods - BOYD 2015 (close enough again!) Old Flame - Scary Mary (seriously impressed the hell out of me)
I'm going with the top 5 I've had this year. If I do all-time, it rarely changes... and it feels wrong to do just the month because I haven't had a ton of new Canadian beers lately. 1. Driftwood Fat Tug 2. Four Winds Nectarous 3. Driftwood Entangled Hopfenweisse 4. Black Bridge Double IPA 5. Yellow Dog Play Dead IPA Hopefully the CANBIF shakes this list up a bit.
Alright my top 5 for this year in no particular order have to be: Nickel Brook - Immodest Four Winds - Nectarous Bellwoods - Barn Owl #3 Black Bridge Double IPA Great Lakes - Octopus Wants to Fight Funny how 3 out of 5 of these come from ON, which is far away and I have no regular access to these beers
My top 5 for the year (so far) 1. Bellwood's - Witchshark 2. Great Lakes - Thrust! 3. Ribstone Creek - Great White Combine 4. Driftwood - Fat Tug 5. Four Winds - Juxtapose Wild IPA
Addendum - just stumbled upon a Collective Arts Ransack the Universe - it definitely has a place in my top five!
Alright, updating my list for April.... 1. Driftwood Fat Tug IPA 2. Amsterdam Homegrown Saison 3. Bellwoods Jelly King 4. Mill St West Coast IPA 5. Collective Arts Stranger Than Fiction Honourable Mentions: can never go without St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout in the beer fridge. It's a CDN classic....also: Dominus Vobiscum Lupulus, Sawdust City Lone Pine IPA, anything from West Ave Cider and lately I've been going back to Steamwhistle as well....
Crazy to see all the Tug love. Rarely even talked about by beer geeks out here anymore. Might need to pick one up it's been awhile.
Steamwhistle has its place. It's a solid Pilsner to have when you're thirsty and find yourself on a deck. The trouble is - the first often tastes like another, and another....
top 5 beers in no particular order. At this point its hard to pick which would be 1 and which would be 5 as they are all fantastic. 1)la fin du monde 2)auval arcane17 3)collective arts Ransack the universe 4)Le Castor yakima 5)GLB robohop
Ok - an updated April list... In no order P49 Bodhisattva Driftwood Entangled Driftwood Fat Tug (because I will love you always and forever) St. Ambroise Russian Imperial Stout Bomber Brewing ESB (because it's a crazy hopped up version of an ESB and it tasted awesome after I stained the deck) I can't wait for May's top 5 :-)
