Strange brew The Wild Beer Co. Ninkasi
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Why Named for the ancient Sumerian goddess of beer, this Belgian-style saison flavoured with apple juice and funked up with wild yeast drinks like the love child of a cider and a sour. Thank a secondary bottle fermentation (à la Champagne) for the tiny bubbles.
Price 750 ml/$11.65
Availability LCBO 414797
Beau’s Madd Addamites NooBroo
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Why Beau’s collaborated with Margaret Atwood to brew this gruit (a medieval style of beer flavoured with roots and flowers from all sorts of flora). Atwood personally selected the rose hips, red clover, hibiscus, elderberry and other botanicals used in this brew, inspired by her dystopian novel MaddAddam. Drink with a good book.
Price 600 ml/$7.95
Availability LCBO 425967
Forked River Mojo Citra Rhubarb Wheat Ale
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Why Everyone’s wetting themselves over the adult juice boxes known as radlers, but I think what we really need is more rhubarb in our lives (and beer). This is light, refreshing and deliciously tart. Crack one in the shade on a scorching afternoon.
Price 500 ml/$3.95
Availability LCBO 424184
