Now any real Canadian knows Canada has the best beer but Matty has recently decided to put aside "other allegiances" and get his American citizenship.... so he's not a real Canadian and was touting the American side including one of his home brews.
Sara was our expert pourmaster and of course you can't mix men and beer without some poker springing forth.
We had a sample of them all and dicussed them, wrote down any notes and gave them a ranking. We didn't see anything but the beer so no biases. We stuck to lighter beers (even though I am definately a deep, dark beer fan) so to keep it similar. At the end we ranked our top 5 each and then averaged out to see which beer was the overall consunsus winner. and it was...
... a Canadian beer, of course! Actually from Victoria, Phillips Brewery Blue Buck Ale. Copper color, citrusy flavour and all around easy sipper. Canadian beers definately were the big winner but there was a couple American beers that did alright so they can be found. The big loser of the night was another BC beer...
Which as Matt wrote for it, "Tastes like the kitchen sink" (whatever that means!). Matt's home brew was on the bottom end of things but not the bottom so he went home happy (even though my comment was "skunk"....)
A good time was had by all...
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3 comments:
Sounds like fun ... if you like beer. Which I don't. Jordan on the other hand would have enjoyed that. He drinks a lot of Canadian beers. His favorites are Alexander Keiths, New Castle, Rickards Red and one made locally at a restaurant here.
Just to clarify, those are his favorite overall beers. I'm not sure which are and aren't Canadian.
My favorite beer, hands down, is Newcastle. Paul really likes Pilsner (of course, Saskatchewan beer) but he likes Guiness on a chilly day. We much prefer Ales than Lagers. As for American vs Canadian, no comment. I don't think I have tasted an American beer. Good experiment though.
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