Tuesday 17 July 2018

FUNKFEST 2018: Pint Jockey (Sorta) Live Blog # 3

FUNKFEST 2018

Sawdust City Brewery
Gravenhurst, Ontario




Beers 421 to 430

Beer: Lodestar Dry Hopped Sour Ale with Pink Guava

Elora: Lodestar

Brewery:  Elora Brewing Company
Location: Elora, Ontario

Style: Sour Ale
ABV: 5.1 %
IBU: 12
Colour:  Cloudy with a pink tinge
Aroma: guava
Thoughts: Bright, pink, clean, and fruity. Gentle, smooth and sweet guava and tart.
Funk Factor: 4/6


Elora: Lady Friend

Beer: Lady Friend IPA


Brewery:  Elora Brewing Company
Location: Elora, Ontario 

Style: Dry-hopped IPA

ABV: 6.0 %
IBU: 50
Colour: Light amber gold with an off-white head
Aroma: Pineapple and passion fruit
Thoughts: Very perfumed, lots of bright pine, pineapple, passion fruit. Strong malty finish. Not a sour but very nice change midway through the day!
Funk Factor: 6/6 


Elora: Elora Borealis

Beer:  Elora Borealis Pale Ale


Brewery:  Elora Brewing Company
Location: Elora, Ontario 

Style: Pale Ale, American
ABV: 5.1 %
IBU: 30
Colour: Light gold
Aroma: Pine and pineapple
Thoughts: Citrus pale ale profile lots of tropical fruit and a nutty malty finish
Funk Factor: 5/6


Indie Alehouse: Lemonade Stand

Beer: Lemonade Stand


Brewery:  Indie Alehouse
Location: Toronto, Ontario

Style: Flavoured Lacto Sour Ale
ABV: 5.0 %
Colour: Cloudy yellow gold with a big white head
Aroma: Bright lemon
Thoughts: Very shandy like, mineral, and lemon. Reminds me of Dad's Olde Lemonade.
Funk Factor: 4/6


Beer: Sunkicked Blood Orange Imperial Wit


Indie Alehouse: Sunkicked
Brewery:  Indie Alehouse
Location: Toronto, Ontario 


Style: Flavoured Imperial Wit
ABV: 7.5 %
Colour: Cloudy raspberry red with an off-white head tinged red
Aroma: Citrus orange and raspberry
Thoughts: Sweet and tart caramelised orange, clove and clean acidity.
Funk Factor: 5/6



Beer: Naked Cannonball Splash

Waller Street: Naked Cannonball
Splash

Brewery:  Waller Street Brewing
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Collaboration with: Sawdust City Brewing Company
Location: Gravenhurst, Ontario


Style: Barrel-aged Flavoured Stout
ABV: 5.5 %
Colour: dark chestnut
Aroma: Malty vanilla
Thoughts: Waller street took a keg of Sawdust's Skinny Dipping Vanilla Stout and barrel aged it for one year with their own four strains of Brett. The result is warm, nutty, malty, roasted malt, vanilla, cocoa, and leather. Mouthfeel is thick rich and chewy. 
Funk Factor: 6/6



Beer: Scotch River 2018 Spruce Tip and Birch Syrup Sour 

Waller Street: Scotch River 2018

Brewery:  Waller Street Brewing 
Location: Ottawa, Ontario 


Style: Flavoured Sour Ale
ABV: 6.8 %
IBU: 8
Colour: Cloudy orange gold with a massive off-white head
Aroma: Spruce on the nose
Thoughts: sweet birch bite with lots of spice, camphor and menthol from the spruce tips

Funk Factor: 6/6

Waller Street: Scofflaw

Beer: Scofflaw


Brewery:  Waller Street Brewing 
Location: Ottawa, Ontario 
Collaboration with: Tooth and Nail Brewing Company
Location: Ottawa, Ontario

Style: Flavoured Farmhouse/ Saison
ABV: 7.0 %
IBU: 12
Colour: Bright red/ purple
Aroma: Blackberry, black currant
Thoughts: Barrel-aged farmhouse beer with black raspberries, black currant, rosehips and hibiscus. Brewed in 5 separate batches which were then all blended to make this beer. Raspberry dominates this beer with floral herbal notes some hints of barrel and brett.
Funk Factor: 6/6 


Beer:  Kauhale Pineapple Mango Saison

Town: Kauhale

Brewery:  Town Brewery
Location: Whitby, Ontario

Style: Flavoured saison
ABV: 5.5 %
Colour: Cloudy light gold
Aroma: Wheat and banana, some pineapple
Thoughts: very subtle whet flavour profile with banana, clove, fresh pineapple and mango.
Funk Factor: 4/6


Beer: Superfluous


Brewery:  Town Brewery
Town: Superfluous
Location: Whitby, Ontario 


Style: Double dry-hopped Sour Ale
ABV: 4.5 %
Colour: clear gold large white head
Aroma: Pine
Thoughts: Pineapple forward, very malty and smooth. Flavourful and rounded but still quite light. Very drinkable.
Funk Factor: 5/6


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