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Black IPA - Big Rig Brewing (Canada - Ontario - Ottawa) 6.2% The first things I check when I have been served or pour a Black IPA are the ...

Vulcan Ale - Pluto's Moon Beer Company 5.4% A dark amber in a glass, nearly brown when not held up to the light. Slightly hoppy (resin...

Boundary Ale - Moosehead (Canada - New Brunswick - Saint John) 5.3% A deep amber colour in a glass with a head of off-white foam. An earth...

Baldwin Fish-Eye - Kensington Brewing Company (Canada - Ontario - Toronto/Guelph) 6.5% An amber orange in a glass with a frothy white head...

Hops and Bolts India Pale Lager - Mad and Noisy Brewing / Creemore Springs (Canada - Ontario - Creemore) 5.3% Slightly cloudy, full gold...

Tokyo Black Porter - Yo-Ho Brewing (Japan - Nagano) 5.0% Super dark, black and totally opaque in a glass with a brown frothy head. Raisin,...

Asahi Super Dry (Japan) 5.0% A lightly malty, lightly hopped aroma. Asahi pours a shade paler than full gold with a head of respectable...

IPA - Canning Brewery (Canada - British Columbia - Penticton) 6.0% A dark amber colour in a glass with a nice frothy head and good laci...

Berthold Keller Premium Lager - Martens (Belgium) 5.0% The aroma is malty, has dry hops and quite a lot of grain. Gold in a glass. A ver...

Red Racer Pale Ale (Canada - British Columbia - Surrey) 5.0% First of all it comes in a really cool can. It has a very sweet malty taste...

While hardly representative of Belgian beers, Stella Artois is a large part of Belgium's export market. It is included here with a trio ...

Budweiser Shot 7.0% It looks like Bud (gold in a glass), smells like bud (slightly skunky, vaguely malty) and tastes like Bud (sweet, a litt...

International lagers are a constant in the world: travel nearly anywhere in world and someone (seemingly often owned by InBev) will be bre...

Paulaner Oktoberfest Bier (Germany) 6.0% The most notable thing about this beer is its awesome format. The glass, the 1 litre can of beer ...