Category: Taste-Mas

The Sixth Annual 12 Days of Taste-Mas

  Welcome to the Sixth Annual 12 Days of Taste-Mas. There’s a few nice surprises with this year’s selections. Like the last few years we are starting on the 19th and ending on the 30th. Starting later gives us a few more non-work days to drink our selections. Here is the schedule for Taste-Mas 2017: December 19 Innis & Gunn…

Day 12 of Taste-Mas 2017: Left Field Brewery Friendly Confines Strong Stout 650 ml

Brewed in collaboration with Bellwoods Brewery, this strong stout offers up flavours of smooth dark chocolate and creamy coconut, with a gentle coffee roast. Two versions of this beer were brewed – one at Bellwoods and one at Left Field – as a special release for the first ever Witchstock festival. Our version features coffee from neighbours, Pilot Coffee Roasters…

Day 9 of Taste-Mas 2017: Godspeed Brewery Daidai Saison with Japanese Bitter Orange 355 ml

Saison with Dai-dai, a type of citrus fruit from Japan! Fragrant, acidic and light. The daidai originated in the Himalayas. It spread to the Yangtze valley region and later to Japan. The colour of the fruit loses yellowish hue and becomes greener in the spring. The native Japanese word for the color orange, だいだい色 or daidai-iro, is derived from the…