C'est What small brewery showcase
Last night was the C'est What small brewery showcase where they have thirty beers on tap and have them available as 3oz tasters for $1. We got there early because it always gets insanely crowded (which it did). We tasted twenty beers. The overall standard was very good with most beers being good to very good examples of their style. They hand out scorecards for one to make notes and then collect and tally them at the end. Unsurprisingly, three of my top four were IPA's; Al's cask, Granite Hopping Mad and Durham Hop Addict. More surprisingly, my top four was rounded off by Grand River Highballer Pumpkin Ale. This wouldn't normally be my type of beer at all but this one was very full with just the right amount of spice. Other beers I thought were good exemplars; Scotch Irish Corporal Punishment (a fairly bitter brown ale); King Brewery Hopped up unfiltered Pilsner, McAuslan St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout. The only stinker was Nickelbrook Sahti Juniper Beer (A Finnish specialty apparently) which I found virtually undrinkable.