The Beer Traveller

Due to the weather or lack there of, Dad wanted to take the family over to Kingston Ontario.  It was a good excuse to hit their local brewpub.  I had left my passport back on the left coast to keep from losing it on my travels.  Due to our evil Canadian neighbors, you now need either a birth certificate or passport to travel across the boarder.  We figured we would try anyways & I could always play the stupid one from out of town; this role actually comes quite naturally to me.  Getting into Canada was quite easy.  I was asked why I didn’t have a passport & responded with I forgot it.  No worries!
It was than off to Kingston…actually off somewhere else…than my parents who have been over there numerous times realized things didn’t look as they had remembered.  Yep, wrong turn! 
It was a dreary day, but actually decent weather for sitting outside on Kingston Brewing Company’s covered patio.  The 1st shock to my system was the waitress informing me they don’t have a ‘sampler’.  How the hell does a brewery not provide a sampling to the discerned customer.  My father, w/ his “it’s good enough attitude”, said well looks like you won’t be able to try them all.  I, with my it’s never good enough attitude, started the hamster wheel in hopes something would happen.  They had 7 beers, no way I could pint them all.  But, they did serve 10 ouncers. My mom than came out of no-where & ordered Framboise Royale from the waitress while the hamster was still getting up to speed.  See she’s never been a beer drinker, but I turned her on to Linderman’s Framboise.  She recognized that funny Belgium word & was in the game before anyone knew what was happening.  It than occurred to me the ol’ man could do 3 ten-zees & I would do the other 3 ten-zees.  Than we all could do a little family style beer tasting.
The Kingston Brewing Company was est in 1986 & they know their shit.  Both the flagship Dragon’s Breath Pale Ale & their Whitetail Cream Ale ranked Exceptional.  Dragon’s Breath Real Ale was a little too watery & was given a Drinkable.  Both the Dunkelnacht Dark Lager & Pooh’s Brew (Speciality honey lager) were graced with a likable.  Service was just ok, but both the food & Beer were excellent.