craft brewed - take one

and now for the low-down on the beers i sampled at the canada cup of beer:

we began with the steamwhistle pilsner, which was a hit with everyone.  perfect beer for a hot day.  and darned friendly servers to boot.  we can see why they've taken ontario by storm.  (cindy thinks you could mix this with lemonade for even more refreshment)


next up was samuel adams.  on offer was the summer ale and the boston lager.  the lager was a lovely dark lager, quite tasty.  i found the summer ale to be much like russell's lemon, which i like for its lack of yeasty cloudiness, so i was a fan of this as well.  everyone else loves the fruity beers, so they very much enjoyed the summer ale.



on to natureland, the first organic brewers in canada, who just got themselves a genuine german brewmaster (who's the same guy responsible for cariboo's honey).  the nice server let us try all three of his available brews (in smaller pours) for a single token - fabulous way to get us to try all three!  only 2,000 flats of the hefeweisen were brewed, so if you wanna try it, you'd better find it fast!  it's bottle conditioned so its mighty cloudy and yeasty.  it was refreshing, as were the lager and the amber.  they're just so effervescent.  not my favourites, but everybody enjoyed them.


next up was vancouver island brewing where we sampled the honey brown, the dark lager, the pale ale and the amber ale.  i tried sips of everyone else's choices.  i particularly enjoy the dark lager which is pretty much a refreshing stout.

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