Canada Day: Humidity and Maplemoon Ale
Happy Belated Canada Day!
Admittedly I didn't do a lot to mark it, but Canada was with me yesterday. All hot, muggy day. As I remembered what it was like to sweat and pray for a thunderstorm to clear the air, just like during the long Canadian summers of my misspent youth, I missed cottages and lakes and popsicles and fans and air conditioning.
I did drink this beer though. Maplemoon is a dark ale brewed in Manchester by Joseph Holt with a "glimmer of" real Canadian maple syrup. The verdict was: pretty much a winter drink. The sweetness from the syrup tasted more like treacle or molasses and made me want to eat spice cake and pork belly. That's perfect for Glasgow's climate almost every other day of the year, but it just wasn't right yesterday. I needed a 50, or a properly mixed cocktail. You know, things you can get in Canada.
