The single song that inspired this (dead) website

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

St.Ambroise Blonde Pale Ale

This beer is made by McAuslan brewing in Quebec. It's amber coloured, has a bit of a sweet citrus taste and smell at first but then comes off fairly bitter. I'd for sure drink these guys again, they're tasty and well balanced throughout.

I (barely) remember having another beer made by McAuslan years ago and I remember it was pretty good also.

First time using a glass to drink beer at home, classy!

Showing off pabst/antihero wallart board. Siiiikkkkk bro

Modelo Especial

This beer is made by the same company that makes Pacifico and Corona amongst others. I found it goes down real easy and was very refreshing in the hot sun but had a bit of an off after taste. The beer in the photo got a little to warm in my backpack so it wasn't as enjoyable as any other ones I had in Cabo. Nonetheless I wish the cops at the airport didn't steal the other ones I had to bring back so I could enjoy a few more of these right now. I like Pacifico more and Corona less.

I'm so backed up,

Big old mills! Darn mexican coppers stole the ones I was bringing back. Boooo. More updates to come. I'm literally 9 beers behind.

Samuel Adams beer

I like Samuel Adams Boston lager. Compared to the standard watered down American style beers, it has a lot more characteristics and a bigger taste for the same price. I could see Samuel Adams beers being a stepping stone to benefit inexperienced drinkers to break free of the light standard beers. It's not to intense or to light, it's just a decent medium bodied tasty beer.

First snowfall today. Might help me catch up on globbiblogging.

Filler

Showing off new wall art. Ooooooo

Finished my last two 'boos from when Troll brought them this summer. Guess this means another visit, and or trip to BC is due...

Viru Estonian Beer

I FINALLY got my chance to go to the Sherbrooke liquor store here in Edmonton on the way back from skating Morinville park. I've heard about it a lot and it's as great as everyone says. Boasting over 800 brands of beer I was in heaven. They had a whole wall rack dedicated to new arrivals and I was surprised they even had a big assortment of cheap beer that I don't see everywhere. Anyways, this Viru beer bottle stood out to me like a peacock in Antarctica and I had to have it. I'm a sucker for weird looking beers especially when I haven't seen one like it before. The beer was pretty good. It was pleasantly more bitter than I expected and went down good and tasty. I'd have more of these if they weren't an expensive import and if they had more tasty beer in it- At 3ooml it's empty in no time.

The bottle doubles elegantly as a vase for my dying flower!!

Lezajsk Beer

If you know me you'll know I really enjoy having big beers at restaurants and bars. I asked for a big beer at Two Rooms cafe a few days ago and got this one. I don't know much about this beer other than it comes from Poland, is 5.5 percent alchy, and apparently goes all the way back to 1525. Whoa, old. This 500 ml beer was a tasty treat that I'd definitely have again.

Oh ya, Two Rooms loses points in my books for serving me it with a Coka-Cola glass.

Bavaria 8.6 Strong Blonde Beer

I generally stay away from strong beers because I like to have a lot of beers at once and not get all loser'd and write off the day or two. I got this one by impulse with 2 other single cans before going on a awesome fall-time walk in the river valley with my friend Aryn. I didn't want the weight of carrying a six pack around all afternoon and wanted to get buzzed, so bigger stronge beers were a good compromise. It's 7.9 Percent alcohol and has a sweeter taste than a lot of strong beers I've had. I'm glad I got only a single can of this and would not buy it again. This reminds me, last year around this time I was on a funky OJ and colt forty-five kick. I got to get back into that asap while the weather is still good.

Aryn Franklin of http://ladouche.weebly.com fotoz