REVIEW: Parallel 49 Gypsy Tears Ruby Ale

Almost done with the Canadian beers. Today's brew, Gypsy Tears Ruby Ale is the penultimate one. A red ale that checks in at 6% ABV. No need to dilly-dally. To the beer!

REVIEW: Parallel 49 Old Boy

My fondness for dapper, gentlemanly anthropomorphized mascot characters has been well documented.  So this pint glass sporting a monocle, mustache, and a rather dashing top hat has me already pretty jazzed about this beer. Let alone the fact that the last Parallel 49 beer I had was quite good. I'm pretty excited about this English ale. Unfortunately, that's the best I've got as far as a style for this one. Parallel 49's web site doesn't say anything about style, Beer Advocate has it listed as an ESB, and Rate Beer calls it a brown ale. So who knows. To the beer!

REVIEW: Parallel 49 Hoparazzi

This beer falls under a style that I seem to be seeing more and more of in recent days. Parallel 49 Brewing refers to Hoparazzi as an India Pale Lager. Now, I really just take that to mean that this is just a pale lager, but the hop bill is something akin to an IPA. That sounds like something that I'd be into. A beer with the light body and crisp quaffability of a lager but with the bitter, robust hoppiness of an IPA. Hoparazzi clocks in at an impressive 50 IBU and 6% ABV. Let's get to it. To the beer!

REVIEW: Tree Hop Head Black IPA

At the Parry Sound I was heartened by the abundance of 16oz cans, my own personal favorite serving vessel, in the craft beer section. Not a whole lot in the way of 12 oz bottles and cans, and even less in the way of bombers. As far as I recall, this one was the only one in the entire store. Well, at least it's the only one I bought: Tree Brewing Co.'s Hop Head Black IPA. I did a little bit of research online and it seems Hop Head is sort of the IPA line for Tree Brewing. There's also a standard and a double version. But what I have here today is the black. It's been a while since I've had a good black IPA. Let's get to it. To the beer!