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“Pumpkin Ale” (Spiced Beer) Great Lakes Brewery

October 17, 2014 by Dale 5 Comments

The Great Pumpkin Ale emerges — all hail the great pumpkin ale…. Rating: 90 points Stats: Spiced Beer. 5.5% ABV. Etobicoke, Ontario. Size: 650mL bottle Colour: Deep straw, golden Mouth Feel: Medium carbonation; clean, bitter and refreshing finish. Purchased: LCBO Price: $4.95 Pairing Notes: Green curry. And so the field narrows and it comes to a point as I complete my seasonal quest for…

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Filed Under: Ale, Beer Reviews, Eats, Pumpkin Tagged With: Ale, craft beer, Great Lakes Brewery, Highballer Pumpkin Ale, malts, McAuslan, microbreweries, Pumpkin, Spiced beer, spices

“Pumpkin Ale” (Flavoured Beer) Grand River Brewing

October 16, 2014 by Dale Leave a Comment

Grand River Pumpkin (close up)

Suddenly, out of the turbid waters, a pumpkin appeared. Rating: 84 points Stats: Spiced Beer. 5.2% ABV. Cambridge, Ontario. Size: 500mL bottle Colour: Deep straw, golden Mouth Feel: Medium-low carbonation; medium mouthfeel. Purchased: LCBO Price: $3.95 Pairing Notes: A light Indian curry. With the bar now squarely set, I approach the third in the Great Pumpkin Ale challenge with this one from…

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Filed Under: Ale, Beer Reviews, Eats, Pumpkin Tagged With: Ale, Cambridge, craft beer, Grand River Brewing, Great Pumpkin Ale, Highballer Pumpkin Ale, malts, microbreweries, Ontario, Pumpkin, Pumpkin Ale, spices

“St-Ambroise Citrouille” (Pumpkin Ale) McAuslan Brewing

October 15, 2014 by Dale 2 Comments

St-Ambroise Pumpkin (front)

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…

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Filed Under: Ale, Beer Reviews, Eats, Pumpkin Tagged With: “St –Ambroise, Ale, craft beer, Great Pumpkin Ale, malts, McAuslan Brewing, microbreweries, Montreal, Pumpkin, Pumpkin Ale, Quebec, Spiced beer, spices

“Pumpkin Ale” (Spiced Beer) Black Creek Historic Brewing

October 14, 2014 by Dale Leave a Comment

Black Creek Pumpkin (back)

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…

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Filed Under: Ale, Beer Reviews, Eats, Pumpkin Tagged With: Ale, Black Creek, carbonation, craft beer, heritage, malts, microbreweries, Pumpkin, Spiced beer, spices

Searching for the Great Pumpkin … Ale

October 13, 2014 by Dale 3 Comments

Pumpkin Ales

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…

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Filed Under: Beer Reviews, Eats, Pumpkin Tagged With: Ale, competition, craft beer, Great Pumpkin Ale Series, LCBO, Magouille, malts, microbreweries, Pumpkin, Spiced beer, spices

“Legendary Oddity” (Spiced Beer), Muskoka Brewery

July 11, 2014 by Dale 2 Comments

Finally … a beer from the Muskoka Brewery worth writing about. Having previously reviewed their ubiquitous Mad Tom and Twice as Mad offerings which left me unimpressed, I was hesitant about sticking another toe in their fermented waters. Twice bitten — definitely third time shy. So why did I take the bait? The packaging grabbed…

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Filed Under: Beer Reviews, Eats, Flavoured, Trappist-Styled Tagged With: beer, Belgian, Bracebridge, cage, cellar aged, cork, diacetyl, dry-hop, food, LCBO, Legendary Oddity, Mad Tom IPA, microbreweries, Muskoka Brewery, Ontario, packaging, Review, Spiced beer, spices, vintage beer

“Rudolphus VI” (Belgian IPA) Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company

January 31, 2014 by Dale 2 Comments

Most good things must eventually run their course … and this concludes my “Best of Beau’s” series featuring the four beer in their “mix pack.” This final comer is, again, Beau’s Brewery’s play with a defining but yet less mainstream beer style: the Belgian IPA, something I didn’t know that existed as a “style” before…

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Filed Under: Beer Reviews, Belgian IPA, Eats, India Pale Ale (IPA) Tagged With: Beau's, Beau's Mix Pack, Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company, beer label, Belgian IPA, Belgium, bitter, dark beer, dry beer, food, Hops, LCBO, local, Locavore, malts, microbreweries, Motueka, Ontario, Organic Beer, Review, Rudolphus VI, Screamin' Beaver, spices, Vankleek Hill

“Doc’s Feet” (Dubbel) Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company

January 29, 2014 by Dale 7 Comments

Ambition can be a dangerous thing. Doc’s Feet is going to challenge you as much as the label challenges convention. I’m not sure if this some homage to Hello Kitty fitted as a west coast totem (I fear to ask) holding I don’t know what (a beer cap? the sole of a Doc Marten?). I…

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Blackened Tilapia with Grilled Salsa

July 23, 2013 by Dale Leave a Comment

Tilapia is a relatively mild fish that oddly seems to attract both those that don’t particularly like fish and even those that love fish. With the commercial farming of tilapia, it has become ubiquitous in Canadian retailers and whether you approve of fish farming or not, it does at some level represent a more sustainable…

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Filed Under: Eats, Fish, Gluten-Free, Mains, Recipes Tagged With: barbeque, bbq, blackened tilapia, blackening, cajun, coconut oil, Cooking, dinner, food, Grill, Grilled Salsa with Summer Squash and Ginger, Recipe, salmon fillets, salsa for blackened fish, spices

Blackening Spices

July 21, 2013 by Dale Leave a Comment

I was reading another blogger’s recipe for Cranberry Tilapia Quinoa last week and in the course of our shared back-and-forth comments about how to tackle what she described as a “blandness,” I suggested that she try blackening her tilapia to give it more zip … and I said that I had a recipe I’d be happy…

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