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Alley Kat Loaded Goat Maibock

You probably won't have the chance to get one of these because apparently they only made 3000 bottles of this type. It's good, well rounded. Hoppy but sweet and not to bitter from the high alcohol content. The style of beer is more heavy and sweet then I generally dig but one of these is great.

Jealous of my pops right now

Mom sent me a photo of pops at our cottage today:

Pike Tandem Double Ale

Tried this beer from Seattle out at De Capo the other day with a veggie panini. Good stuff. Malty with a subtle fruit taste. I can't remember the exact alcohol content but it was pretty strong at above 7 percent. The panini was rad and the beer was above average. I will drink again if possible.

Side note: The gelato at De Capo Caffe is good stuff also.

Like yuh didn't know.

Patio Oldmills

VB beer

On St. Patty's day last week I went to purchase some booze at the Superstore Liquor store. I noticed a bunch of this beer at the till. I axt the dude how much they are, and to my surprise he says free with a bottle of Wolf Blass wine. I say heck yeh' and go grab a bottle of their shiraz because I'm generally pretty into an Australian shiraz. I get back to the till and he tells me it's only one free can of VB per bottle. Dam. I barter an extra two out of him telling him I got three bottles in total (of other stuff) and that it's St. Patty's day. Three free beers, not bad.

Anywho, this beer is Australia's number 1 selling beer and it's decent. Not great, not bad, just plain-jane alright.

I think it's neat that the cans are 375ml instead of the standard 355ml. bonus yeah,

I'm in heaven

I've been trying to bribe the man at the Blue On Whyte liquor store for the blonde beauty standup in their window for over a year. He wouldn't even do it for a fifty. While in Calgary Zev made my month by hooking me up with this ginger babe!!!! So rad!!! Thanks a ton.

When you have to get the beer, don't fool around

Cascadian Dark Ale, by Alley Kat

Alley Kat released 5 limited edition 650ml beers for their 15th anniversary. I only got my hands on the fifth and final one: Cascadian Dark Ale. The lady at the brewery explained to me that Cascadian Dark Ales are also known as Black Indian Pale ale (IPA). This beer pours a dark red-brown colour and smells sweeter than it tastes. The palate is more bitter than I expected which was a pleasant surprise because of the sweet chocolaty nose. It was all around a smooth, well-balanced drink and I hope I can get my hands on a few more. I also hope I can get my hands on the other 4 anniversary beers which names are Smoked Porter, Trippel, Apple Wit, and Ginger Beer.

Alley Kat is doing it right by keeping it interesting and ever changing.

Hek beer. ANDREA DYER GUEST SPOT

As we were walking out of the Superstore Liquor Store with a flat of Old Mill, a 12 pack of Hek (for sampling purposes) and two bottles of wine, my friend and our favoured beer connoisseur around these interweb parts can literally be quoted as saying,

“I’ve been cutting down on my drinking lately”

HAHA.
I remember the days where I’d make similar statements - usually during a week long bender after a tough round of college exams or while boozing on a weekend camping trip.

…And that’s pretty much all that Hek is good for: a time when you’re too poor to care about flavour, or a time where you’re too pissed up and dirty to care. It’s a pretty mild lager brewed at Big Rock in Alberta, and while it’s quite obviously a beer when it first passes your lips, it’s as though you took a big swallow of tasteless air once it passes your windpipe and sinks home. Nothing worth remembering.

Then again, maybe that’s your intention in drinking it in the first place.

Gösser beer

I don't know anything about this beer, the only thing english I can make out on the can says that it is "Austria's finest beer" and that it's 5.2 percent alcohol (who knows what gut besser is). . It's refreshing and tastes pretty good. Not much more to say for this one. It's fairly bitter and goes down easy.

Oh damn. I think my friend whitney is in Austria, I should have axt her about this one. Ohwell.

alley kat aprikat, by andrea dyer

when i was living the age where wiping-the-snot-on-your-sleeve-in-winter was still appropriate, my loving parents had a nifty solution for fending off the cold:

beer.

it always did the trick and never asked me to return any favours.

so when i subjected myself to the apocalyptic weather of edmonton, relic and i put on our jackets, braved the outdoors, cleared the shit from out throats and warmed our bellies at the alley kat brewery on 60th avenue. it's the fourth oldest brewery in canada and has the capacity to produce 2.4 million bottles of beer annually, which is fairly attractive to an alley kat virgin such as myself.

after a few sips of so on and so forth, i decided that the fruity sweetness of 'aprikat' (alberta's first fruit beer) was the one for me. it's a perfectly carbonated german-style wheat beer - only in place of banana and clove extracts - apricots! the flavour is obvious but not overly dominant for those who'd still like to taste their barley and hops, and although i'm sipping one now on an empty stomach while pounding this out, it'd be an excellent after-dinner or summertime patio companion. and it ain't gonna talk back to ya.

...ah summer.

only 5 months left of this shit.

bottoms up.

guest review by andrea dyer