What is in your beer fridge this fall?

[cattersley]

Recently I started a diet, and have been drinking light beers. I have tried Bruce County Pilsner, Heritge Lager, Taps Lager, Tsintao (new recipe).

Tsintao has always been a favourite of mine, but they have changed the recipe, and the abv has gone from 5% to 4.5%. Easy drinking and still refreshing, but has lost it's bite.

Bruce County Pilsner. Not to bad, classic Canadian take on a Pilsner.

Heritage Lager. Pretty good, sweet, but good.

Taps Lager. Fantastic. Very sweet, almost like a cross between a honey lager, darker because of what coloured malts used, has a butterscotch/honey taste.

Anyone else out there tried something new to there local market? Let here a review!

Cheers all!

- cattersley.

[markaberrant]

I've got a couple great local brews to sample this fall:

Paddockwood Ragnarok IPA - 8.5% English style, double IPA. I bought 2 bottles, already drank 1. AMAZINGLY GOOD.

Bushwakker Centennial Wheatwine - 8.9% wheatwine with loads of centennial hops and honey. The reviews on this one say it's gonna be sweet. Brewed last year in honour of Saskatchewan's Centennial Anniversary, the brewery is down to half a dozen bottles.

UPDATE:

I just checked my stock and realized I also have a bottle of Alley Kat Olde Deuteronomy Barleywine. Looking forward to that one as well.

And I'll be picking up some of the just released American-style IPA from Paddockwood in 2 weeks time, called "606"

[dparsons]

Get some Guiness Stout. Its 125 calories for a 12 oz bottle. Most flavorless light beers are just above 100 calories. Average beers are around 150 or so calories.

[HogieWan]

The calories in beer come from the alcohol - so different brews of the same abv will have basically the same calories. Carbs are different and come from unfermented sugars/dextrins. However, most beers are not that different in carbs. Even an impy stout has around the same amount of carbs as a coca-cola or other soft drink.

[HarkJohnny]

i'm afraid nothing at the moment.

My weekend started better than usual as a coworker offered me an upright chest freezer for free. So I'm thinking fermentation chamber!
So I get it home and move the beer fridge over a bit to make room. I bumped the back of it against the foundation wall. Now it doesn't work and i didn't find out until the next morning when it was running like it was a freakin' heater!

On top of that, and being too excited, I didn't look at the freezer closely enough and the shelving doesn't come out (insulating tubing throughout make up the shelves). so now I have a freezer I can't use and a busted kegerator/beer fridge.

BUMMER! :mad:

[Dextolen]

Some Stone Smoked Porter & Vertical Epic, the remains of my homebrewed summer beers (strawb. wheat and a rye beer), Meantime London Porter and Wells Bombardier which I enjoyed so much that a bitter is moving up on my homebrew schedule (and I pronounced that SHED-ule, since it's british). :)

[Jughead]

Originally posted by markaberrant
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And I'll be picking up some of the just released American-style IPA from Paddockwood in 2 weeks time, called "606"

Where can I buy Paddockwood beers?

[markaberrant]

Originally posted by Jughead
Where can I buy Paddockwood beers?

They typically have well over 12 different kinds of beer available for purchase at the Paddockwood brewery in Saskatoon.

Any SLGA (gov't liquor stores) in Saskatchewan can carry Paddockwood (it's up to the store manager). As far as I know, only the "specialty" (aka larger) stores in Regina and Saskatoon carry Paddockwood. SLGA stores can carry the following Paddockwood products:

Bock single bottles
Rye IPA single bottles
Black Cat Lager 6-packs
Oatmeal Stout 6-packs (coming in October)

They've also done a good job of getting their product into most Saskatoon restaurant/pubs, as well as a couple in Regina. It's mostly bottles, though some draft can be found (and is damn good).

[corkybstewart]

I've heard horror stories about how expensive beer is in Canada. How much do you pay for a typical sixer of craft beer? Are there any restriction on homebrewing?
As far as my fridge goes I've got about 8 bottles I brought back from Belgium and my homebrew, nothing else. Oh yeah, my boss left some Spudweiser but that doesn't count. My wife is going to Albuquerque this weekend, hopefully she'll bring me back some good stuff.

[Jughead]

Thanks Mark. I'll keep an eye out during my next trip to SK.

Corky, in Alberta I pay about $11.50 CAD for a 6 of craft beer. It will vary a little by province.

I don't know of any homebrew restrictions (other than not selling it).

[markaberrant]

Originally posted by corkybstewart
I've heard horror stories about how expensive beer is in Canada. How much do you pay for a typical sixer of craft beer? Are there any restriction on homebrewing?

I've ready several articles which state that homebrewing (especially wine) is much more popular in Canada than the US because our commercial alcohol prices are so high.

Craft beer in Canada is a weird beast, and each province has radically different, yet equally kooky laws. It is hard to get crafts from other regions of Canada, and nearly impossible to get US craft.

The 2 big "micro" brewers in Canada are Big Rock and Sleemans. I would equate them somewhat to Sam Adams. In Saskatchewan, a 6-pack of these products is around $11. Even Molson/Labbatt macro swill is in the $11 range.

The new Paddockwood 6-packs are $12.25
St Ambroise Oatmeal Stout is $13.75

So yeah, beer is expensive here. Alberta probably has the best laws and prices, but they still don't come close to anything in the US.

[corkybstewart]

I have a good friend from Norway. She says alcohol is extremely expensive so lots of people bootleg their own spirits. And she's never met anybody there that homebrews.

[fretlessman71]

Originally posted by HogieWan
The calories in beer come from the alcohol - so different brews of the same abv will have basically the same calories. Carbs are different and come from unfermented sugars/dextrins. However, most beers are not that different in carbs. Even an impy stout has around the same amount of carbs as a coca-cola or other soft drink. Is this entirely true? Malt is sugar, and what you can't taste as alcohol you can sure taste as sweetness... confused...

[thekulman]

Alcohol has about 7 calories per gram, but beers with the same alcoholic strength, and same serving size can have vastly different caloric counts. It depends on the unfrementables and amount of carbs. in each beer.