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If you live in Canada and drink beer, you have to do this at least once...OV by @MolsonCoorsCA @OVBeer http://wp.me/p3SJ82-1y3

So over the weekend, the wife’s side of the family was supposed to have a family reunion golf tournament, like they do every year. This year, it was in Welland. Unfortunately, on Saturday, Welland received so much rainfall that most of the golf course was underwater. Needless to say, we weren’t going to Welland…Or were we? Turns out, the in-laws had paid for the dinner portion of the weekend and…

Ya, still not sold on his latest venture..another boring beer...#5 Sorachi Lager by @duggansbrewery

Jackie picked this up at Cool Brewing, who has the contract to make Duggan beer at the moment. There are plans for them to open up their own brewpub and take it back. We’ll see.

After the non-eventful No. 9 IPA, I was really hoping that this one from Duggan’s would be better. The last sorachi beer we had, Sorachi Ace from Brooklyn was great, and Mad Tom has Sorachi in it, and I love that.

This…

A Canada-Norway beast of a collab ..and it's good! - Norseman by @bushpilotbeers @ontcraftbrewers

I’ve had a beer sitting in my fridge for a long time. It has been sitting there because if it 14% ABV. That, at the time, was the highest I had ever seen (aside from Utopia, but I’m not rich!). I was trying to build up the nerve and find the right time to drink it. All that has changed, however, now that I have had a 17% Mikkeller Black and now this, a 14.5% Eisbock. 14% isn’t that scary anymore.

By chance, we got to compare the 2014 with the 2013....Who won? Challenger 1...Vintage Ale 2014 by @fullersbrewery

Back in the summer, the wife picked up a beer in a box. That must mean it’s special! It was a Fullers Vintage Ale. The description on the box tells you to cellar it was up to TEN YEARS ! So, instead of drinking it, I put it in my cellar beside my 2013 Winter Beard and Siamese Twin Ale.

As time passed, I thought about it….how will I know how much the flavours change if I don’t drink it and record…

Thanks to Matt and Dallas for the tour, my first from @refinedfool, and so not my last...Antique Peepshow

I was going to be in Sarnia for a meeting that was going to take up half of my day. I thought to myself, “Self,” I said. “isn’t there a new brewery in Sarnia?” Why yes, yes there is. Rick has been there a few times and said their beer was good, so I figured I’d stop in there after my meeting and pick up a few. I sent out a tweet to Refined Fool letting them know I was coming, because I’m kind of…

The first Christmas beer of the season, and it comes from the land of Mr. Kringle himself..Underlig Jul by @NogneO

It was the night of the gym Christmas party. I had packed a bunch of beers up into the cooler and filled it with ice.  I was going to share a few with Mark while we were there.

When I arrived, Mark said that he had a surprise for me. You over to his cooler and grabbed a Nøgne Ø Christmas Ale. Now, after that last Nøgne Ø that we had, Sunturnbrew which we didn’t even finish, I was a little put off…

Good, but not Cobblestone good..Stationmaster Stout by @junction_craft

Here is the last of the Junction beers that Jackie brought me for my birthday back in July. There were a couple good one and a few not so god ones (check them all out here) but this, I wanted to save for Mark. It’s their flagship beer, it’s a stout and I know how Mark geeks out over dark beers. So I was a nice guy and waited….for four months.

After a mild, a pumpkin, a porter and a why-the-hell-d…

They just can't seem to find the 'T' button on their keyboard... Wychwood Black Wych by @hobgoblin_beer

It was two days after Halloween and I was still kinda nursing a hangover from that night. I had already had a Mild Mannered Reporter, all 3% of it, and Mark and Julie had arrived, so it was time to move on. I went downstairs and came back up with some options. I brought with me Paranormaland Black Wych. On the way up the stairs, I read that Black Wych was a porter, so I made the executive…