Stonewell Light - Cool Brewery (Canada - Ontario - Toronto) 4.0%

Stonewell Light - Cool Brewery (Canada - Ontario - Toronto) 4.0%


Pale gold in a glass with a big white head of foam that fades quickly. An aroma of grain with a bit of creamed corn (DMS) a bit of either Euro Lager dry hops or just skunk from being light struck. The flavour is kind of creamy and buttery with some grain but so much skunk from being light struck that I can't say I really pick up on the "squeeze of lime" much at all. In a weird way the skunk and the butteriness kind of work together. Beer geeks aren't likely to pick this up anyway so who cares if it has lots of what are strictly considered off-flavours. Stonewell Light isn't so bad for a bargain light beer and maybe because it at least, unlike most big brand light lagers, it tastes like something.

Grans Lettol (Norway) 2.4%

Buttery & malty. Crisp and refreshingly carbonated. Fairly thin on taste because it's only 2.4% ABV but what is there is thoroughly delicious. This is the best of all of Grans beers oddly enough, the rest of them are sour and poorly balanced except for Bare, but their Lettol is still tops in my books. But best of all! It only costs 3.90 NOK which is around 65 cents Canadian. This is the beer that will forever remind me of Oslo and Norway and one of my mainstays here over the last four months. I'm down to my last few days in Oslo and I'm getting nostalgic so forgive me, but I'm really going to miss this beer.

Cheers!