First Trip of the Year!

I went back to Canada this year for my Grandparent’s 60th wedding anniversary celebration.

Back splash for the anniversary dinner

I don’t usually visit in the winter as it’s mightily cold!  Typically, they had their worst snow storm in 50 years while I was there. The temperature as I left Canada including windchill was feeling like -36C! That’s the kind of temperature where skin will freeze within minutes; snot will freeze at around -20C or so 🙂  It’ll definitely be summer when I visit next.

Managed to catch up with friends and family, and eat lots of good food.

And what’s a trip without some new beers tried?  As you can tell, I didn’t participate in dry January, but rather Tryanuary.

This trip I managed to try:

• From Spearhead Brewery:
  • Rag Doll Ale – had this while in the Rag Doll Eatery (food was really good);
  • Moroccan Brown Ale;
• From Blyth Cowbell Brewing:
  • Cowbell Red Ale;
• From unknown breweries:
  • Humpback Ale;
  • Squirrel Ale;
  • Octopus Ale – possibly from the Great Lakes Brewery;
• From Blood Brothers Brewery:
  • Guilty Remnant;
  • Balam;
  • Unify or Die;
  • Paradise Lost – Yuzu Gose – Sour Ale;
  • Toad of Light;
  • Blood Light;
• From Granite Brewery:
  • Maggie Hale Brown Ale;
• From Ace Hill Beer Company:
  • Ace Hill Pilsner.

We also managed to stumble across a winter craft beer festival while downtown but they closed as we got there.  What kind of beer festival closes at 4:30pm???

I also got to meet Loki the cat 🙂

Loki

Until next time Canada!