Our Beer
Our beer is ready for sale! Recipe development on our flagship brand, Lake of Bays Pale Ale, is now complete, after several months of hard work and more variations than we care to remember (15? 16?). Our Pale Ale is available in bottles and a range of keg sizes at our brewery retail store, as well as at select bars, restaurants and LCBO locations throughout Muskoka.
Lake of Bays Pale Ale
Our Pale Ale is light in colour, but don't let that fool you — this beer has flavour enough to satisfy even the most demanding connoisseur (known in the industry as a "beer geek"). A beautiful, slightly sweet malt flavour, with just a hint of roasted grains, is balanced by medium hop bitterness and fresh citrus notes from our premium imported hops. An amber-coloured ale for beer drinkers of all stripes.
BEER GEEK TASTING NOTES
Our Pale Ale is an amber-coloured American-style pale ale with a fresh citrus/floral hop aroma, slight caramel malt sweetness, medium hop bitterness and a clean, dry finish. Our aim throughout recipe development has been to create an approachable, highly drinkable beer without sacrificing our "craft beer" credibility. We've kept our recipe simple, based on the belief that good beer is mainly the result of quality ingredients and consistent procedure. We're sure you've heard it before — "brewed with twelve different kinds of malt and seven distinct hop varieties, to ensure that extra-special flavour!" That's not us. During our months of testing and experimentation, we found that it was actually harder to brew a flavourful, well-balanced pale beer, than to throw a whole ton of ingredients into the process and come out with a dark, full-bodied, punch-you-in-the-face-with-hops sort of brew. There'll be time for that later! In the meantime, try our new Pale Ale and see what Pure Northern Taste is all about! Cheers!
Tough Times for Testy
It's not easy being a pilot brewhouse. You do all the hard work of testing and tweaking different beer recipes on a small and manageable scale. You take all the abuse as the brewmaster works out his procedure (and occasional frustration) on you. Then a full-size brewhouse comes along and steals all the glory by producing more beer in one day than you could in a whole year.
Yes, these are dark days for Testy the Tester System, the mini tester batch brewhouse. He always has been a bit gruff (hence the name), but now we suspect he has developed a bit of an inferiority complex as his bigger cousin has moved into the brewery building. Rest assured, though, there'll be plenty more work for Testy in the coming year as we finalize the recipe for our flagship brew and work on new recipes for our subsequent beer brands.
Want to help us convince Testy that all is not lost? Words of encouragement and other messages of support for Testy can be sent via the form on our Contact page, or addressed to:
Lake of Bays Brewing Company
Attn: Testy the Tester System
P.O. Box 17
Baysville, ON
P0B 1A0
