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