The benchmark in pumpkin ales. Rating: 88 points Stats: Pumpkin Ale. 5% ABV. Montreal, Quebec. Size: 341mL bottle Colour: Deep amber Mouth Feel: Medium carbonation; creamy and full in the mouth. Purchased: LCBO Price: $9.95 (4/pack) Pairing Notes: n/a After the first disappointment on the Great Pumpkin Ale countdown, I chose to go with a known entity … one I already knew I loved from…
“Pumpkin Ale” (Spiced Beer) Black Creek Historic Brewing
A pumpkin ale that is more ghostly because of what doesn’t appear. Rating: 70 points Stats: Spiced Beer. 5% ABV. Toronto, Ontario. Size: 500mL bottle Colour: Light-brown amber Mouth Feel: Low carbonation; low specific gravity; light end. Purchased: LCBO Price: $3.95 Pairing Notes: n/a First up on the Great Pumpkin Ale Countdown is this traditional sampling from Black Creek Brewing. This is…
Searching for the Great Pumpkin … Ale
As Canadian Thanksgiving arrives and we sacrifice hundreds of thousand of pumpkins across this fair land as part of our traditional devourment of the greatest pumpkin pies in the country, it seems appropriate that I spend a few days at least contemplating that other pumpkin treat: pumpkin ale. What makes a great pumpkin ale? And what is the…
Dreamy
To be caught in a dream is to let go of the world that is and be transported to a world that might be. It is a place where the imagination plays with indistinct forms, thoughts, hopes and desires …. To capture it in a photograph, might be to capture the dream of the subject’s or…
Watercress Salad with Smoked Salmon & Roasted Beets
If there has been one theme in my cooking this CSA season, it has been beets and, specifically, roasted beets. I’d be lying if I said there was “something” about roasted beets that is magically comforting — no, there is something very specific about roasted beets I love, how their flavour is transformed, how the…
“Hops & Bolts” (IPA) Creemore Springs Brewery
A beer that behaves like the rich kid on the block pretending to be edgy and cool and in the end just tastes obsequious and insecure. Rating: 77 points Stats: Pale Ale. 5.3% ABV. 60 IBUs. Creemore, Ontario. Size: 473mL can Colour: Light-orange amber – unfiltered Mouth Feel: Medium carbonation; creamy finish Purchased: LCBO Price: $2.85 Pairing Notes: n/a Do you recall those…
Signs ~ a study in fall
© Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 Even as a Canadian, these leaves are filled with so much context, so much opportunity…
“Canuck Pale Ale” (Pale Ale) Great Lakes Brewery
Rating: 85 points Stats: Pale Ale. 5.2% ABV. Etobicoke, Ontario. Size: 473mL can Colour: Amber — unfiltered, cloudy ending. Mouth Feel: Medium, very natural carbonation; dry and refreshing ending. Purchased: LCBO Price: $2.50 Pairing Notes: n/a It’s been said that ‘Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.’ This beer doesn’t help much…
“The ‘Witty’ Traveller” (Belgian Wheat Beer) Railway City Brewing Company
Stats: Belgian Wheat Beer. 4.2% ABV. 15 IBUs. St Thomas, Ontario. Size: 473mL can Colour: Pale (very pale) off-‘yellow’ watery straw; faintly cloudy. Mouth Feel: Low-medium carbonation with a dry finish. Purchased: LCBO Price: $2.85 Pairing Notes: Greek Food (e.g. Souvlaki) → 78 points So, the next surprise in my Getting Canned series of beers only coming in cans is also the final taster from…
Nocturnal Grass
© Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 © Dale Schierbeck 2014 By the warmth of the moonlight, these elephantine grasses swayed in the winds of our Indian summer night and totally captured my heart. See more of from other’s submissions to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Nighttime….
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