Summer is special when it comes to drinking beer and the outdoors is the perfect place to enjoy a few! You are invited to leave a huge upvote and join our friend @detlev to create your own post with the gang! So glad to have found a home with beer drinkers across the world on my favourite blockchain.
For week 423, I am escaping the big city for a little R&R and pulling some pints from the smaller breweries.
Camping Beers!
Another from that Jobsite haul on the way camping was the classic Impact IPA. They have been brewing it for as long as I have known about New England IPAs, sweeter and more balanced with the bitterness than a west coast, as described to me by the brewer. One of the reasons we brew our IPAs in the east coast style and perfect when there is nobody around but my little buddy.
Cottage Stout!
While up north at the cottage, I just love to visit the local brewery and see what cottage fuel they have available. While I predominantly load up on the IPAs, I do like to mix in a couple lighter ones and a breakfast beer or 2. When you sleep in a little on vacation, you awake when it is close to beer o'clock already and an Irish Stout is perfect for the first of the day.
Weighing in at a lighter 4.6% ABV, maybe it is the roasted coffee flavour that makes it such a nice morning treat. Light on alchohol but heavy on malty taste and a touch of dryness made crispier by the CO2. I do love my creamy nitro stouts but this was a nice one for the cottage.
Lunch & Dock Beers
Another of my favourite breweries is Sawdust City Brewing Company which is also in the same region as the cottage. After a round of golf, we searched for some lunch on a patio in the cool little tourist town in the summer, Haliburton. We found the place and I ordered a nice Reuben sandwich and an IPA to wash it down.
I hadn't tasted Juicin' New England Style IPA before and I do love discovering new IPAs from breweries I already like. They use Citra and Mosaic hops like we do in ours for that tropical and fruity mixed with a bold bitterness and oats for the smooth mouth feel and wheat for the thick haze. Neat to see they use Simcoe for that tangy flavour hop that almost brings me back to orange drink as a kid.
I liked it enough to visit the beer store on the way home to pick up a few for the dock. A reasonable 6% ABV and a nice smooth sweet treat sure was nice to have while kickijng back and breathing in the fresh air while the waves lapped the shore. Great Cottage BEER!
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