Troubled Monk Open Road Brown Ale
$19.49
GFom the Brewery
"Don’t like dark beer? Close your eyes! This world class American Brown Ale has wonderful roasty flavours that are sure to surprise.
Upon its release, Open Road brought home Silver in the World Beer Cup in Philadelphia for American Brown Ales. This beer really brings things all together: malt and hops, balancing flavours similar to roasting coffee. Residual sugars that weren’t broken down by the yeast during fermentation give it a sweeter taste like Snickers in a glass—nutty and chocolaty. Open Road is for those looking for something a little darker and malt-forward. Pumpernickel bread and raisins dominate the palate but finish with chocolate, while the hops lend just a hint of citrus and pine to balance out the sweetness of this easy-drinking dark beer."
Abv5.5%
Blind Enthusiasm Niks Blend
$22.49
From the Brewery
"Nik’s Blend uses Saphir and Eclipse hops, with floral, citrus and tropical fruit character, resulting in mandarin, apricot and muscat wine flavours, with a punchy, bright acidity and a full bodied, drying finish."
Blind Enthusiasm Nars Blend
$22.49
From the Brewery,
"Nar’s Blend uses El Dorado and Cashmere hops for their citrus, herbal and ripe fruit character, resulting in a blend with juicy orange, grapefruit and marmalade flavours, with a round, bright acidity and compelling depth and complexity.
7.8% ABV "
True Wild Roper's Hold 8 Yr Straight Rye
$121.99
Roper's Hold is a Blended Whisky produced by our friends at True Wild, a new Distillery and Restaurant in Calgary. It will be 2030 before they have a whisky of their own, but in the interim they have sourced whiskies to bottle, giving an indication of where they are going as a producer.
Bottled at 47%
Producer Description
"Roper’s Hold is a celebration of artistry in spirits. Similar to painting, the aging and blending of these collected whiskies is what makes each of them desirable as a unique expression of the spirit and cask. Each blend’s ephemeral existence further amplifies its appeal. No matter who you are, you must get it while you can. For every label in this brand, nothing will ever be like it again. Compelling. Distinct. Creative. Complex."
True Wild Roper's Hold 20 Year Whisky
$164.99
Batch 1 of Roper's Hold 20-Year-Old has been released by Bryce Parsons and True Wild Distillery. For this batch, the whisky was originally produced at one of the larger distilleries in Southern Alberta. The grain makeup is 90%+ Rye and the rest malted barley - something that the mystery distillery is not typically known for. The whisky has been finished in wine casks sourced from the Okanagan Valley.
Bottled at 47% ABV.
Producer Description
"Our newest (or should we say oldest?) edition of our beloved Roper’s Hold Whisky has been freshly bottled and is ready for you! This beautiful 20 Year Aged Canadian Rye Whisky was originally distilled right here in Alberta, but was later found in New York, and our team was committed to bringing this one-of-a-kind whisky back home. Once these forgotten barrels returned home to Canada, we finished them in beautiful Okanagan wine and custom American oak barrels to give the whisky its distinct colour and flavour profile."
Gibson's Finest Rare 12 Year 375ml
$22.99
Notes from AI
. It delivers a very smooth, highly approachable profile characterized by rich caramel, vanilla, and butterscotch on the nose, balanced with soft rye spices, orchard fruits, and a lingering peppery finish
Green Demon Blue Raspberry Sour
$5.39
From the Brewery
"The beer that’s bright green and tastes just like it looks. Definitely not for purists, it bursts with the freshest blue raspberries that we can find.
It’s liquid candy. It’s liquid fun. It’s the Green Demon that haunts Alberta’s brewing industry.'
6.0% - 6.5% ABV Depending on the batch.
Esquimalt Kina-Salal
$39.99
From the Producer;
"Kina-Salal is the sequel release to our famous quinquina, Kina-Rouge, the first quinquina style wine made in Canada since WWII and a Double-Gold Winner at the 2021 San Francisco World Spirit Awards.
First developed in France, Quinquina (pronounced 'ka-kina') also known as Tonic Wine. It is a sweet wine that has had a dosage of quinine added, just like Tonic Water is sweetened water with bitter quinine added. To add to the naming confusion, it is also frequently called a 'Kina'. In the case of our Kina-Salal, we used a mead (honey wine) base and wild salal berries and blueberries to pump up the berry juiciness before diving into the astringent bitterness of quinine. Enjoy over ice or topped with soda water. A splash of gin certainly doesn't hurt.
In this new, seasonal, release we crushed 100kg of wild Salal Berries, foraged on Vancouver Island by Ben and Célia of Forest for Dinner, and aged the Salal on our blueberry-blossom mead for 4 months before finally adding 16 different botanicals including trailing blackberry leaves, blueberries, elecampane, dandelion root, ginger and, of course, quinine. The final blend was then aged for an additional 5 months before bottling.
Only 125 cases were made for this 2024 batch. "
Esquimalt Bianco Sweet Vermouth
$31.99
From the Producer;
"18% ABV
Bianco Vermouths are often used to substitute a Rosso Vermouth where a lighter cocktail variation is desired. While this vermouth is made in the Sweet style with hints of our Rosso Vermouth, it had a vibrancy all it's own and works wonders in highballs, or just poured straight over ice. It is not overly sweet by any means, it's sweetness is balanced with it's herbaceous bitterness and brightened up with lemon peels. One of our favorite cocktails is a White Negroni using equal parts Chiaro Amaro from Woods Distillery, Ampersand Gin and our Bianco Vermouth.
As always, all of our products are made from mead on Vancouver Island, using 100% British Columbian honey from our own apiary in Fort St. John managed by Paradis Apiaries FSJ ."