Lancaster Bomber Ale has been made since at least 2003, and probably before. The ale got more attention in 2014, however, owing to the British joint tour of the last two airworthy actual Lancaster Bomber planes, one from the UK and one from Canada. The brewery, Thwaites from Blackburn, Lancashire, sponsored a web site to…
Weight Watchers Hot Chocolate
Weight Watchers ®Hot Chocolate drink is definitely one of this winter’s top finds for me. It is probably the best instant hot chocolate drink mix I’ve tasted, ever. The combination of a rich, thick texture and dark chocolate taste makes it like drinking a melted chocolate bar. Tasting sugar rather than chocolate has always…
The hunt for the best egg nog recipe is over
Like many people, for years, come the start of December, I’d eye up an egg nog recipe or two trying to decide which one I was going to try that year, remembering the string of failures and disappointments stretching back into the past. Knowing that I’d probably revert to the tried and true chilled…
Christmas Beer: Bah Humbug
Having previously liked King Goblin Beer from Wychwood Brewery in England, a few trial bottles of this beer went in the shopping basket when it appeared in the store in Decemeber 2013. We liked it so much, we went back and cleaned the store out, stocking up the basement pantry with about two…
King Goblin Beer
This was one of our fall beers here in the Beaches. Brewed only under full lunar moons1 in the old, witchy forests of England2, it is a dark, rust-coloured ale with a woodsy, spritely taste with a vague suggestion of spice to it and a hearty malt aroma. It is lightly-carbonated, and not too…
