Beers of British Columbia, Vol. 2
Continuing on the previous post, I would now like to take the opportunity to comment on some things which are not from the astonishingly awesome Phillips Brewing Company.
Tin Whistle Chocolate Cherry Porter
Up until a couple of months ago, I didn’t like porters. I found them flat and bizarrely without taste. The Longbow Double Chocolate Porter mentioned before was the first porter that I enjoyed, and it got me thinking that maybe, just maybe, porters had potential that I hadn’t previously considered.
This beer adds one huge wallop of evidence for that hypothesis. Where many cherry beers are taken down by a strange maraschino-chemical taste, this one just tastes like cherries. And chocolate. And porter. Really, it’s exactly what it promises to be, and it’s awesome. Three cheers for Tin Whistle; this one is a winner.
Cannery Brewing Blackberry Porter
After all of this lovely stuff with cherries and chocolate and porter, my interest was piqued. Right when I found myself thinking I should see what else was available in the world of porters, I found this.
Dramatic pause here; imagine a taste tester picking up a pint of dark, almost opaque beer. They look at it, admiring the expert pour and its quarter inch of head. They take a sniff, but don’t really detect much because, you know, beer doesn’t really smell like much. They shrug and take a sip. After a fraction of a second there’s squirming: it almost looks like they’re going to throw up, except that their eyes lit up and they’re smiling like crazy. Later analysis reveals that they were trying to swallow the beer before the instinctive urge to shout “holy shit!” made them soil their clothing.
Cannery Brewing Naramata Nut Brown
There doesn’t seem to be much point to writing about beers that I don’t enjoy. Although it is definitely fun to wonder at what stage in the brewing process someone peed in the beer, I’d rather recommend beers that people will enjoy. And this is one of them. It’s a prime example of a nut brown and is extremely drinkable, but the nut flavours seem to be more obvious more unadulterated than any other nut brown that I’ve tried. It’s great.
