As it's Canada Day, our favourite thing to do is host a Canadian Craft beer BBQ. In the prairies you can get a sampling of beer from each province! A dream we had years ago when we did our first cross country beer run. We've done regional tastings each year afterward but the availability of Canadian craft in the prairies is very impressive
We realize that Alberta rules this more than the others, but Saskatchewan is close - you just have to dig a bit. Manitoba, though, you're less likely to find all provinces but it doesn't mean you shouldn't try Quebec and BC beers.
We've been, and will continue, tweeting this week on the various beers available in the prairies to try. Follow and go out and try something new from Canada. Your province or from another
@prairiebeer
List includes:
Nfld - Quidi vidi
NS - Garrison and Propellor
NB - Pumphouse, Moosehead
PEI - Gahan
PQ - St Ambroise, Charlevoix, Trou du Diable, Biere Brisset, Glutenburg, La Nouvelle France, Le Bibloquet, Trois Mousquetaires, Dieu Du Ciel
ON - Flying Monkey, Lakes of Bay, Steam Whistle, Cameron's, King, Muskoka, Mill Street, Waterloo, Amsterdam
MB - Half Pints and Fort Garry - Farmery locally
SK - Paddockwood, Great Western - Bushwakker, District, Bin, Prairie Sun locally
AB - Wildrose, Big Rock, Alley Kat - Village, Toolshed, Grizzly Paw, Hogshead, locally
BC. - Phillips, Howe Sound, Dead Frog, Tree, Big Surf, Parallel 49, Whistler, Fernie, Stanley Park
YK - Yukon brewery
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Ontario craft week
So it's Ontario craft beer week (@OntCraftBrewers) and being from that province originally, I always take notice. I've never got to partake, but usually end up there sometime in the summer.
My first thoughts are how there should be prairie beer week to celebrate and promote prairie craft beer - good idea- I know. Maybe we should organize it
My second is to talk about the great ON craft we can get in the prairies. Alberta for sure anyway. So that is what follows
Cameron's - found recently in 4 pack tasters. They're known for their cream ale, but my fave is the auburn ale.
http://www.cameronsbrewing.com/ @cameronsbrewing
Muskoka - we visited this (and Cameron's) on our first cross country beer tasting trip some 7 years ago and LOVED their Weiss beer and dreamed of the day we'd taste it again. Well you can find it out here now along with their cream ale and very popular Mad Tom ipa - arguably Jason's favourite ipa. Their Harvest and Winter seasonals are often around as well
http://www.muskokabrewery.com/beers.php @Muskokabrewery
SteamWhistle - a staple pilsner in many pubs now and I am happy about that. Their concept of doing one thing well rings true.
http://www.steamwhistle.ca/
@SteamWhistle
Mill Street - if you're ever in an ON city with a Mill Street pub go visit - great beers. Organic - good. Wit - good. Tankhouse - good. Coffee porter - so good. Jeez I want a Mill Street right now
http://m.millstreetbrewery.com/bottles.html
@MillStreetBrew
Waterloo - found as a taster pack you should pick one up if for only the Waterloo dark. Anyone who reads our infrequent blog posts or more common tweets knows this is one of our absolute favourite beers
http://waterloobrewing.com/ @BrickBrewery
We've had a few lakes of bay in our day but just recently have I seen the NHL alumni Top Shelf out here. Give it a try
http://lakeofbaysbrewing.ca/our-beer/
@LB_Brewing
Flying Monkey - we visited here back when it was Robert Simpson and we left it in Barrie Whatever the name the best thing is we can now drink Hoptical Illusion and Smashbomb Atomic ipa in the prairies. Go on hop heads
http://www.theflyingmonkeys.ca/
@FlyingMonkeys
King - now I found their Vienna lager around a year ago, but struggle to find it consistently. If you do see it - grab it. One of my favourite beers!
http://www.kingbrewery.ca/
@KingBrewery
Amsterdam can be found as well. Either missed or relatively new, we haven't bought any here. We have visited the T O brewery and the beer is great. Actually funny event when we were there they were hosting a wrestling event upstairs. Full on squared circle but that's another post
There you go. That should introduce you to Ontario beers. Maybe you should have an ON craft beer party? Be sure to invite us!
@prairiebeer
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My first thoughts are how there should be prairie beer week to celebrate and promote prairie craft beer - good idea- I know. Maybe we should organize it
My second is to talk about the great ON craft we can get in the prairies. Alberta for sure anyway. So that is what follows
Cameron's - found recently in 4 pack tasters. They're known for their cream ale, but my fave is the auburn ale.
http://www.cameronsbrewing.com/ @cameronsbrewing
Muskoka - we visited this (and Cameron's) on our first cross country beer tasting trip some 7 years ago and LOVED their Weiss beer and dreamed of the day we'd taste it again. Well you can find it out here now along with their cream ale and very popular Mad Tom ipa - arguably Jason's favourite ipa. Their Harvest and Winter seasonals are often around as well
http://www.muskokabrewery.com/beers.php @Muskokabrewery
SteamWhistle - a staple pilsner in many pubs now and I am happy about that. Their concept of doing one thing well rings true.
http://www.steamwhistle.ca/
@SteamWhistle
Mill Street - if you're ever in an ON city with a Mill Street pub go visit - great beers. Organic - good. Wit - good. Tankhouse - good. Coffee porter - so good. Jeez I want a Mill Street right now
http://m.millstreetbrewery.com/bottles.html
@MillStreetBrew
Waterloo - found as a taster pack you should pick one up if for only the Waterloo dark. Anyone who reads our infrequent blog posts or more common tweets knows this is one of our absolute favourite beers
http://waterloobrewing.com/ @BrickBrewery
We've had a few lakes of bay in our day but just recently have I seen the NHL alumni Top Shelf out here. Give it a try
http://lakeofbaysbrewing.ca/our-beer/
@LB_Brewing
Flying Monkey - we visited here back when it was Robert Simpson and we left it in Barrie Whatever the name the best thing is we can now drink Hoptical Illusion and Smashbomb Atomic ipa in the prairies. Go on hop heads
http://www.theflyingmonkeys.ca/
@FlyingMonkeys
King - now I found their Vienna lager around a year ago, but struggle to find it consistently. If you do see it - grab it. One of my favourite beers!
http://www.kingbrewery.ca/
@KingBrewery
Amsterdam can be found as well. Either missed or relatively new, we haven't bought any here. We have visited the T O brewery and the beer is great. Actually funny event when we were there they were hosting a wrestling event upstairs. Full on squared circle but that's another post
There you go. That should introduce you to Ontario beers. Maybe you should have an ON craft beer party? Be sure to invite us!
@prairiebeer
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Saturday, March 8, 2014
Back up and in MB!
We know, we know - promises promises. We start re-blogging in January just to disappear again in February. Well this time it wasn't our laziness - some of you know our blog was high jacked by a Japanese soap company. Really - I couldn't make that up
Anyway we figured it out and those soap orders should be in soon
But beer-wise we left off in Manitoba and what beers from there continue through the prairies?
Half Pints is a favourite across the flatland with the likes of their Bull Dog amber and Little Scrapper IPA (a fave amongst friends) but our vote's for the St James Pale Ale. Love this ale
The other widespread beer is Fort Garry. Now I grew up in Northern ON and have fond memories of trips to the 'peg', lunching at The Forks with a Fort Garry Dark and it's still a favourite! The beers are found mostly in variety packs and that's ok - get one. Good beer
Farmery Estates has started and found throughout MB but not too available elsewhere. The estate idea is a great one and finally there's a reason to go to Nepawa. You know, like estate wines? Oh yeah and we've had it - it's good
Finally Kilter brewing is in Winnipeg, but alas it's on our 'to try' list and brews for fun. A reason to go to my farm though!
Hope that helps. Manitoba is a great place and has great craft beer. Some you can find throughout the prairies so go find some.
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Anyway we figured it out and those soap orders should be in soon
But beer-wise we left off in Manitoba and what beers from there continue through the prairies?
Half Pints is a favourite across the flatland with the likes of their Bull Dog amber and Little Scrapper IPA (a fave amongst friends) but our vote's for the St James Pale Ale. Love this ale
The other widespread beer is Fort Garry. Now I grew up in Northern ON and have fond memories of trips to the 'peg', lunching at The Forks with a Fort Garry Dark and it's still a favourite! The beers are found mostly in variety packs and that's ok - get one. Good beer
Farmery Estates has started and found throughout MB but not too available elsewhere. The estate idea is a great one and finally there's a reason to go to Nepawa. You know, like estate wines? Oh yeah and we've had it - it's good
Finally Kilter brewing is in Winnipeg, but alas it's on our 'to try' list and brews for fun. A reason to go to my farm though!
Hope that helps. Manitoba is a great place and has great craft beer. Some you can find throughout the prairies so go find some.
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Friday, January 24, 2014
Saskatchewan beer
So in continuing with the beer we like that you can get in the prairies we'll shift our thoughts to the rectangle next door - the big SK
Great Western had a great story of saving a brewery and a bunch of jobs and you know what - good beer. The line up won't baffle hop heads but based on the prairie market they have good beer
Really like the premium lager, but it's not an active part of their line up. We have turned many 'pil' drinkers onto award winning brew house. Great beer to drink with a Rider game.
Real favourite is Paddockwood bête noire. A great stout and found across the prairies. Their line up is great but that is a fave
Otherwise great beers are truly local. Bushwakker in Regina can only be bought on site but when there You MUST GO - so very good and you get off sales. We like Dungarven Irish red
New to Regina is District's Musknuckle and new to Swift Current is Bin Brewing and Black Bridge soon but again gotta be in Speedy Creek. Also in Saskatoon is Prairie Sun, but it's also on our 'to try' list
There you go. Maybe book a staycation in SK. Looks like we need to
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Great Western had a great story of saving a brewery and a bunch of jobs and you know what - good beer. The line up won't baffle hop heads but based on the prairie market they have good beer
Really like the premium lager, but it's not an active part of their line up. We have turned many 'pil' drinkers onto award winning brew house. Great beer to drink with a Rider game.
Real favourite is Paddockwood bête noire. A great stout and found across the prairies. Their line up is great but that is a fave
Otherwise great beers are truly local. Bushwakker in Regina can only be bought on site but when there You MUST GO - so very good and you get off sales. We like Dungarven Irish red
New to Regina is District's Musknuckle and new to Swift Current is Bin Brewing and Black Bridge soon but again gotta be in Speedy Creek. Also in Saskatoon is Prairie Sun, but it's also on our 'to try' list
There you go. Maybe book a staycation in SK. Looks like we need to
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