Beer Maven

Moonlight Porter - Waller Street Brewing (Canada - Ontario - Ottawa) 6.3% Very dark in a glass, more or less opaque with only a very fine ...

Burnt Rock - Beau's All-Natural Brewing (Canada - Ontario - Vankleek Hill) 4.9% Opaque, dark brown with a gigantic mocha head of foa...

Obsidian Imperial Porter Rum Barrel - Cameron's Brewing (Canada - Ontario - Oakville) 9.2% This barrel aged brewed pours as dark as it...

Union Mills Porter - Waterloo Brewing - Brick Brewing (Canada - Ontario - Kitchener) 7.0% A very dark but not quite opaque chestnut colour...

Vanilla Porter - Mill Street (Canada - Ontario - Toronto) 5.0% Very dark in a glass, opaque even, with a large, light mocha coloured head ...

2 Weeks Notice (Wild Oats Series #12) - Beau's All Natural Brewing (Canada - Ontario - Vankleek Hill) 6.0% Pitch black, completely o...

Gaspésienne - Pit Caribou (Canada - Quebec - Percé) 6.2% Huge frothy light brown head. Dark and thoroughly opaque in a glass. Milk choc...

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,...

Old Engine Oil - Harviestoun (Scotland) 6.0% Opaque and black with a nice tan coloured head of foam. The aroma is of coffee, dark bitter ...

Wild Rose Cherry Porter (Canada - Alberta - Calgary) 6.5% Black and opaque in a glass with the barest (potentially imagined) red tint. H...

Fuller's London Pride (England) 4.7% A hoppy green aroma at first. As the head fades the aroma changes to one of sweet lightly bitte...

In honour of Canada Day I review a slew of beers from one of Canada's great breweries, Mill Street in Toronto.   Mill Street Brewe...

Bushwakker Sampler (Canada - Saskatchewan - Regina) This brewpub had great beer, good eats and a fabulous jazz group playing the night ...

Locate in Port Williams, Nova Scotia, The Port gastropub has award-winning decor, great food and even better beer made on location by Sea ...

Located in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Barley Days Brewery makes three beers year round and a number of seasonal beers as well. I had th...

Pale Ale - Lake of Bays Brewing (Canada - Ontario - Baysville) 5.0% Noticeably hoppy aroma that carries through to the taste. Caramel malt...

Picaroons is a great brewery located right in my own "backyard" here on the East Coast of Canada. This is the concluding half to m...