Long Shadows India Pale Ale
Blindman Brewing – Lacombe, AB 7.1% ABVIBU 68 The Long Shadows IPA clocks in at a whopping 7.1% and 68 IBU! It has a beautiful cloudy and golden straw body and is fairly hoppy and resinous, with a smell of somewhat dank pine. A moderate amount of bitter hoppiness with some fresh pine, a bit […]
2020 Unity Brew Scotch Ale
Canmore Brewing Company – Canmore, AB 6.0% ABVIBU 20 “In strange days it’s nice to know that even while apart, we can still come together over beers.” This Scotch Ale from Canmore Brewing is part of a five brewery series to mark (what would have been an in person celebration of) Alberta Beer Week 2020. Extremely […]
88 Happy Trails Cross Alberta Collab
Eighty-Eight Brewing – Calgary, AB 6.5% ABVIBU 30 Three different breweries in Alberta (88, SYC and Snake Lake) brewed a beer with the same recipe each using their own house yeast strain to get 3 unique but similar tastes! You can definitely taste the spritzer side of this one and although we’re hitting double-digit negative […]
Alberta Crude Oatmeal Stout
Wild Rose Brewery – Calgary, AB 5.5% ABVIBU 40 This dark, jet-black oily-smooth stout (hence the name) from Wild Rose is very rich and smooth with a coffee/caramel/cocoa aroma and taste. It has a lightly carbonated mouth feel to it compared to something like Guinness; which I feel makes it a bit more widely drinkable […]
