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  • Jan 1 – Cask Aged Beers

    Ian and Ross are fortunate to have some barrel-aged beers to try, and settle on the recent Fisticuffs Biere-de-Garde from Boxing Rock, and we choose Sea Level’s Windward Imperial Stout as comparison, both small-batch barrel-aged beers.

  • June 4 – The Beer Dude

    Ian and Ross are joined by Todd Beal, ‘The Beer Dude’, admin and moderator of the Maritime Craft Beer page and the Maritime Beer Report. Chatting over all things NS beer and slightly beyond, we also try the new Prickly Pear Lager from Propeller, the award-winning Puck-Off Blonde Ale from Boxing Rock, and Todd’s current…

  • May 28 – Award Winning Stout

    Ian and Ross discuss the recent Canadian Brewing Awards 2024, where Boxing Rock took home Brewery of the Year, and we also get to try Saltbox Brewing’s Bronze-Medal dry stout: “Old Foundry”. We then compare it with another dry stout we had in the “Classic Dry Stout” from 2 Crows Brewing. Oh, and Ross messes…

  • Nov 28 – Some discontinued Lagers

    We clean out the closet to try some lagers, 2 of which are from now discontinuing breweries, Serpent and Uncle Leo’s. The third comes from Boxing Rock, which is NOT discontinued, but we lament many of the losses we’ll experience from the first two.

  • July 11 – The ‘Red’ in Red Ale doesn’t mean ‘Red Meat’

    Ian and Ross try some reds, and learn the difference between an American Red Ale, the ‘Temptation Red’ from Boxing Rock, and a typical Irish Red Ale, the ‘Ready Yer Knot’ Red from Big Spruce. Ross also finds a spider.