Cheers to all Ontario Breweries!

On a previous beer-filled drunken episode, we ranked Top 5 Budget Beers. This time, the gang decided to level up and get more bougie with their alcohol by ranking craft beers! Craft beer has become increasingly popular over the years as more breweries pop up every single day and Ontario does not mess around when it comes to their booze. The excitement of craft beers come from the sheer variety of brews out there, with fun cans, and flavour profiles. And while drinking craft beer can get expensive, you often get more bang for your buck in terms of quality and alcohol percentage (sorry Pabst Blue Ribbon). So join Tuong La and our favourite idiots at Pull the Plug Justin Godelie, Shannon Godelie, and Justin Briner as they chug down some delicious samples while ranking Top 5 Craft Beers in Ontario!

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Ground Rules

• We are nominating specific beers from any Ontario Craft Brewery
• There is a weird grey line when it comes to what is considered “Craft” these days. Some craft breweries have been bought out and no longer operate as “craft”. Other breweries have been bought out but they retained their “craft status”. We will discuss on the podcast as it comes up.
• You must bring a sample of your beer when you nominate it in this episode. Some beers we wanted to nominate but you can only buy at that brewery itself which obviously we are lazy and not going to do that. Therefore we got the majority of our craft beers at LCBO or The Beer Store.
• Seasonal craft beers are obviously tricky to do on this show so they are largely ignored. Also we recognize that our appetite for specific beers might be different depending on the time of year we record this. (ie if this was in the summer we might have gone more on the sour/radler route).
• Trying to avoid having two beers from the same brewery be on the list for variety reasons.

**Spoilers below is our Group Top 5 as well honourable mentions)

Group Top 5

5. Lug-Tread (Lagered Ale, 5.2 %) – Beau’s Brewing Co.

4. Elora Borealis (Pale Ale, 5.1%) – Elora Brewing

3. Jelly King (Dry Hopped Sour, 5.6%) – Bellwoods Brewery

2. Hazy Days (Juicy IPA, 6%) – Cowbell Brewing

1. The Mutants Are Revolting (Crushable IPA, 4.5%) – Flying Monkey

Everyone’s Honourable Mentions (unordered)

• Boneshaker (Unfiltered India Pale Ale, 7.1%) – Amsterdam Brewing Company
• Crisp Pilsner (Pilsner, 4.7%) – Creemore Springs Brewery
• Life in the Clouds (IPA, 6.1%) – Collective Arts
• Muskoka Cream Ale (Cream Ale, 5.0%) – Muskoka Brewery
• Absent Landlord (Kolsch Ale, 5.3%) – Cowbell Brewery
• Wheat (Wheat Beer, 5.3%) Side Launch Brewing Compan y
• Waterloo Dark (Dark Beer, 5.0 %) – Waterloo Brewing Company
• Also any other Waterloo beer is quite great ^^
• King Street Saison (Belgian Style Saison, 4.6%) – Block 3 Brewing Co.
• Blue County (Blueberry Saison, 6.0%) – Hometown Brew Co.
• Hazy Susan (IPA, 6.0%) – Hometown Brew Co.
• Anything from Bicycle Craft Brewery.
• Rhubarb Saison (Farmhouse Ale, 5.1%) – Wellington Brewery
• Juicy Ass IPA (IPA, 6.5%) – Flying Monkey
• Upside IPA (IPA, 6.8%) – Wellington Brewery
• Beers from Ace Hill are delicious
• SPA (Special Pale Ale, 4.5%) – Wellington Brewery
• Pure BRED (Red Ale, Rambling Road Brewery Farm)
• The Black Lager (Black Lager, 5.0%) – Silversmith Brewing Co.
• Iron Horse Trail IPA (IPA, 6.3%) – Stockyards Brewing
• Mad Tom IPA (IPA, 6.4%) – Muskoka Brewery
• Hazed and Confused (Juicy IPA, 6.5%) – Muskoka Brewery
• White Mocha Coffee Chocolate Nitro White Stout – Cowbell Brewing Co.
• Matter of Fact (Blonde Ale, 4.8%) – Collective Arts