Nickel Brook Headstock Light Lager by Laura (Guest Review)
Simon – Laura is another Twitter friend! You can follow her @skinnyandsingle and @helenlaura5, and read her blog! Photo also by Laura! It’s a beautiful Canada Day in Burlington, Ontario. […]
Black Velvet Blended Canadian Whisky by Peter (Guest Review)
Simon – Peter is a total stranger to me. I am only aware of his existence because of the Twitters. But he’s pretty funny on there, and pretty funny right […]
Revel Stoke Spiced Whisky with Dan, Goran & Ryan
Here we have the first of our flavoured whiskies, Revel Stoke Spiced Whisky. We’re broadening our horizons and widening our palates by letting strangers put chemicals in our drinks. Revel […]
Stalk & Barrel Cask 8 with Dan, Goran, Ryan & Matt
Can’t do a quick business tour of the GTA without stopping in at Still Waters Distillery in Concord/Vaughan. If you check our reviews of their Stalk & Barrel Cask 2 […]
Forty Creek Double Barrel Reserve with Dan
The fourth Forty Creek. So that’s, like… A Hundred And Sixty Creek, I guess. And we’re not even half way through the brand. This time out we’ve got the Double […]
Forty Creek Copper Pot Reserve with Dan, Goran & Matt
Forty Creek Copper Pot Reserve, the second rung of the Forty Creek product line. This is our third foray into this brand, previous trying the Premium Barrel Select, and pitting […]
Danfield’s Private Reserve Small Batch with Ryan & Goran
Just a quick entry in our ongoing series of budget reviews. But, you guys just did a Macallan tasting, you might say, if you were paying attention. And Yeah, I’d […]
Gibson’s Finest 12y with Dan, Ryan & Goran
Part one of our Drank Myself Budget Unconscious series, Gibson’s Finest 12y. And we’ve managed to stay one rung off the bottom here, because at almost $2.00 more than the […]
Nickel Brook Kentucky Bastard Imperial Stout with Dan
Bourbon-aged beer – truly it is a promise of great taste. This is the Nickel Brook Kentucky Bastard Imperial Stout, a nice little post-New Year’s cask aged beer. It’s aged […]
Les Trois Mousquetaires Grand Cuvée Porter Baltique Black Lager with Ryan
Christmas beer number two, thanks Bengt! Just a quick review here, we covered what there was to say about the brewery in the last post. This is a baltic porter […]
Stalk & Barrel 1+11 Special Blend with Devin, Jono, Ryan, Dan & Goran
Christmas Stalk & Barrel! Thanks, Jono! I’m about to make two grandiose claims, and it won’t even cost you much to find out if I’m right: This is the BEST […]
Canadian Club Small Batch Classic 12y with Goran & Ryan
The classic Christmas cadieux, the boozy boxed set. Thanks Ryan! Canadian Club gets a bit of a bad rap, one we tried to address with our review about the Premium. […]
Christmas Day BattleScotch! Forty Creek Cream Liquor v Baileys Original Irish Cream with Sarah, Goran, Dan, Ryan & Robin
Christmas Day Battlescotch! As if today weren’t awesome/stressful enough, let’s throw in some more conflict and alcohol! At least this way you’ll know which of these to use to smooth […]
Seventh Beer Of Christmas: Muskoka Winter Beard Double Chocolate Cranberry Stout with Ryan, Goran & Dan
DERP I PUT IT IN A BIG SHINY BOX. I’m now making the ‘gimme money’ hand motion. $13.95 is a lot of money for one beer, even if it is […]
Fifth Beer Of Christmas: Mill Street Brewery Barley Wine with Goran & Ryan
YAY CHRISTMAS BEERS! YAY FIVE BEERS! SOrry! sorry for shouting! This is Mill Street Brewery‘s Barley Wine Batch #13-331-4! This will be a short review because we’ve already talked about […]
Round 2: Proof by AJ (Guest Review)
Simon – This is our inaugural “Round 2” post, where we revisit bottles we tried more than a year ago. It’s written by guest reviewer AJ, university friend, former nemesis, […]
Hiram Walker Special Old Rye Whisky with Dan & Ryan
Very very short review here. This isn’t worth your time so we won’t spend much of ours on it either. Hiram Walker launched Canadian Club whiskey, among others, but weirdly […]
The Glenrothes Flight at The Highlander Pub, Rideau, Ottawa with Dan, Ryan & Goran
We had been looking forward to this night for a week or so, a planned sequel to Dan’s bachelor party that I had been out of town for. The iScotch […]
Golden Wedding Whisky At Dan & Laura’s Wedding
What a day! Congrats to our regular contributors Dan & Laura on their special day. Where’s the review, you ask? Well, this is going to get subjective. Objectively, you could […]
Stalk & Barrel Cask 2 with Dan & Goran
This is a little weird, but according to my whiskiography I’m quickly approaching 100 bottles tried, and a glaring hole in my whisky experience was that I’ve never seen a […]
Crown Royal De Luxe with Dan, Ryan & Goran
A Canadian classic, or part of the problem? Crown Royal divides whisky drinkers between those who look for the purple velvet bag (ROYALTY getit?) and those who steer clear. As […]
Lot No. 40 Single Copper Pot Still Rye Whisky with Dan
Here’s a quickie because I’m on the road. A few weeks ago Dan picked up this interesting bottle of straight rye whisky, something we thought was a rarity but is […]
Phillips Union Whiskey Kentucky Straight Bourbon/Canadian Whisky with Dan
This is the last refugee of my quick trip to Saint John, New Brunswick, and the second of what we’re calling Transnational Blends. If Three Ships was a curious rendezvous […]
Alberta Premium Canadian Rye Whisky with Goran & Ryan
Just a quick and dirty catchup post. We reviewed this one a while ago as part of Project Tiny Bottles, the “let’s get post-fodder for cheap” initiative that has brought […]
