Hobgoblin. Very tasty, dark beer with a nice hoppy finish and satisfying aftertaste.
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Originally Posted by Reimer
I see this beer every time I'm looking in a Sobey's liquor store. I've been wanting to try it but just couldn't get past the jug and wasn't sure how it would play out. Now that you have recommended it I will definitely have to try it next time I see it.
I love this beer. I believe it is considered a red ale which I found surprising because it is definitely darker than most reds.
Hobgoblin is very good.
on Mississippi Mud; it's not mind-blowingly delicious but for the price it's very good, and the bottle is great to keep around after you've finished it off.
on Mississippi Mud; it's not mind-blowingly delicious but for the price it's very good, and the bottle is great to keep around after you've finished it off.
Especially if you home brew and you're looking for bottles to use instead of going out and buying them.
exactly. I bought it because of the bottle, the quality of the beer was a bonus.
That has honestly been the best part of home brewing so far, you don't buy bottles you just buy a bunch of random beers that you can re-use. So basically you are buying beer and paying 10 cents for each bottle instead of buying a case of 12 bottles for like 15 bucks or whatever it costs.
Some nights when we go to bottles we're not exactly sure if we will have enough(too lazy to do exact math) so we always make sure we got a couple full ones that can be dispensed in case of emergency.
That has honestly been the best part of home brewing so far, you don't buy bottles you just buy a bunch of random beers that you can re-use. So basically you are buying beer and paying 10 cents for each bottle instead of buying a case of 12 bottles for like 15 bucks or whatever it costs.
Some nights when we go to bottles we're not exactly sure if we will have enough(too lazy to do exact math) so we always make sure we got a couple full ones that can be dispensed in case of emergency.
My sister signed me up for the Sherbrooke beer of the month club, best gift ever.
Got some great unfiltered czech pilsners, and a mexican stout called Cucaoa which is pretty damn fantastic.
That's awesome, I just tried the Cucaoa Stout this past weekend at a beer tasting at Liquor Select on 149th street. It is a fantastic beer. We also sampled Cucaoa's Pale Ale that night as well. Glad that you're enjoying their beer club, I've heard nothing but good things about it.
I also tried Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout this past weekend and now I understand why it's one of the beers at thet op of its category. An absolutely fantastic Oatmeal Stout.
I was just about to bump this thread, thought it was awesome to see it on the first page this morning.
I quit drinking beer last August. I feel bad for reading the thread. But it's a damned good thread Reimer.
No man why did you do that? That's the worst decision man could ever make.
Since the starting of this thread(originally just about Innis & Gunn) I have expanded my beer horizon 100 fold and have started home brewing. Attended my first Edmonton Home Brewers Guild meeting last night too.
I'm losing over 2 lbs. a week and even I haven't given up drinking beer.
SAY IT AIN'T SO DORIAN! SAY IT AIN'T SO!
Exactly I was going to say, once I started drinking beer I started losing more weight. It basically just replaces meals. You just have to compensate with multi vitamins.
Exactly I was going to say, once I started drinking beer I started losing more weight. It basically just replaces meals. You just have to compensate with multi vitamins.
I just fit beer drinking into my calorie counting
work hard in the gym, play hard in the bottom of the pint glass
speaking of beer...I've been making the rounds of the Wychwood brews.
Goliath and Hobgoblin were very good. Scarecrow was okay. Organic beers are a little...different.
I've had Hobgoblin several times, it is a very tasty beer. I've seen Goliath on the shelves several times but have yet to try it and I've never seen Scarecrow before. But I have tried several Organic lagers and don't notice a difference at all.
I've had Hobgoblin several times, it is a very tasty beer. I've seen Goliath on the shelves several times but have yet to try it and I've never seen Scarecrow before. But I have tried several Organic lagers and don't notice a difference at all.
The liquor store I go to in sherwood park carries a pretty wide range of the wychwood lineup. they have a lot of the standalone bottles of the real premium stuff, it's nice to pick up one of those on my usual run for a 6-pack of Velvet Fog or Yukon gold.
You should try Goliath, it's quite nice. It might just be the organic beers I've tried, but there's always something a little...off...about them. it might just be me though.
The liquor store I go to in sherwood park carries a pretty wide range of the wychwood lineup. they have a lot of the standalone bottles of the real premium stuff, it's nice to pick up one of those on my usual run for a 6-pack of Velvet Fog or Yukon gold.
You should try Goliath, it's quite nice. It might just be the organic beers I've tried, but there's always something a little...off...about them. it might just be me though.
Yeah I dunno, I've tried Mill Streets Organic lager, Alley KAts Charlie Flint and a couple others and I've enjoyed them all. Not the best beers in the world but easy to drink. I think that they aren't the greatest beers because there isn't much to them, they are almost basically made to sell on their organic feature and just lack other malts and hops that great beers have. Almost like they are made to be an easy drinking beer year-round and sell off the Organic notion.
Wells Banana Bread beer. My buddy brought that over and I was like "WTF" - but it was actually pretty good. Not something I would drink a ton of, but not bad at all.
The other one was from Gahan House (small brewery from PEI) - Sir John A's Honey Wheat Ale.
This was a weird one - one of the worst smelling beers I've ever tried. We were both like "ewwwww". Took me a minute to muster up the courage to have a drink. Wow - what a surprise! Great tasting beer. Certainly the best taste to smell ratio ever anyway.
Yeah I dunno, I've tried Mill Streets Organic lager, Alley KAts Charlie Flint and a couple others and I've enjoyed them all. Not the best beers in the world but easy to drink. I think that they aren't the greatest beers because there isn't much to them, they are almost basically made to sell on their organic feature and just lack other malts and hops that great beers have. Almost like they are made to be an easy drinking beer year-round and sell off the Organic notion.
Empty. empty feels like a good word for an organic beer.
One other beer I tried recently:
holy crap there was a lot of ginger in that. Tasty, but gingery.
No man why did you do that? That's the worst decision man could ever make.
Since the starting of this thread(originally just about Innis & Gunn) I have expanded my beer horizon 100 fold and have started home brewing. Attended my first Edmonton Home Brewers Guild meeting last night too.
Love those meetings. Good group of (mostly) guys and lots of generous samplings of beers. Such a great time. What kind of beer have you been making? I've been looking to make the leap away from kits.
Wells Banana Bread beer. My buddy brought that over and I was like "WTF" - but it was actually pretty good. Not something I would drink a ton of, but not bad at all.
The other one was from Gahan House (small brewery from PEI) - Sir John A's Honey Wheat Ale.
This was a weird one - one of the worst smelling beers I've ever tried. We were both like "ewwwww". Took me a minute to muster up the courage to have a drink. Wow - what a surprise! Great tasting beer. Certainly the best taste to smell ratio ever anyway.
That's awesome, I've heard many good things about that Banana Bread Beer.
Also Gahan House is the only brewery on PEI. I'm heading back to the east coast this fall again and I will be making stops on PEI to check out that brewery and well as Nova Scotia again to go to both the Garisson Brewery and the Propeller Brewery.
Last year when we were in Saint John I found a little gem called the Bigtide Brewery and I found their stuff to be quite decent. However they were out of their IPA at the time. Just recently they won a bunch of awards for their IPA, so I'll definitely have to try that this time round. We are starting our trip off in Quebec City so I'll have to do some research as I know there are some solid breweries there but just have to locate them first.
Also weird that the Honey Wheat had a awful smell but great taste. Usually honey wheat beers have a nice sweet honey smell, but now that you raved about it I am super stoked to try it out.
Empty. empty feels like a good word for an organic beer.
One other beer I tried recently:
holy crap there was a lot of ginger in that. Tasty, but gingery.
Awesome to hear, I keep passing by this one even though I love ginger beers but have tried almost everything else by Phillips. This brewery makes such great beer. If you get the chance try their Double Barrel scotch Ale, it's different from most other scotch ales and one of the barrels it is aged in is a cab sav wine barrel. It both smells and lightly tastes of it. Currently it's one of my favorite beers and one of the better barrel aged beers I have tasted.
I also picked up Phillips regular mixer pack this weekend plus their hop box mixer. So far the stuff I've tried from both boxes has been awesome.
Love those meetings. Good group of (mostly) guys and lots of generous samplings of beers. Such a great time. What kind of beer have you been making? I've been looking to make the leap away from kits.
I've only been brewing since January and thus far have only done kits.
Me and my cousin are looking at getting into all-grain brewing but right now we are having a blast brewing up the Brewhouse kits and hacking them. Currently we have 4 batches that are ready for drinking, one batch conditioning in bottles and another three batches in secondary fermentation. Here's a rundown of what we have:
Ready for Drinking:
-Munich Dark Lager - Basic kit dry-hopped with Hallertauer Hops
-Oatmeal Milk Stout - Steeped Oatmeal and added some lactose and goldings hops to the boil.
-English Old Ale - Steeped in some Caramel Munich malt and added some fuggle hops to the boil
-Blueberry Wheat Ale - Mashed in some light crystal malt and added a pound of blueberries to the secondary. Then added some extract prior to bottling. Used a belgian wheat dry yeast for this batch.
Conditioning:
-Honey Export Ale - Pasturized a pound of honey and added it to the primary after 3 days of fermentation.
Fermenting:
-Blueberry Wheat Ale - Same as the recipe above except we used a north american fruit ale yeast instead.
-Hefeweizen - So far this seems to be going good, but I'll let you know once we are able to actually taste it. This is a very hard beer to make good on.
-Alberta My Bock - Just did up the kit regularly and added the yeast.
On Friday we are going to try and brew up a Belgian Wit beer.
