About a week or two ago, my buddy and I were visiting our local LCBO. I immediately went straight to the craft beer, mainly beers in general, section and just picked up a few here and there that sound/looked interesting, no matter how much it costs, when I came upon this. I knew nothing of the history or the brewers that came together to cart this, but I was inclined on trying it anyway, even if it took a pretty little lady to take the first one to convince that others were buying it. Now, that’s not to say that this was a ladies beer or what have you. I was impressed that she picked up a Strong Ale. Hopefully she enjoyed it more than I did. That said, I found the pretzel taste to be the main and dominant flavour of the bunch. There were very subtle hints of what I could make out to be chocolate and raspberry with no doughnut to be found anywhere. I was excited to try this beer to, as I love to try out new and exciting beers, especially if you can pair something like pretzels, doughnuts, chocolate and raspberries. I’m not sure if it was a bad batch or the importing it from the US to Canada played a role? I don’t know. I wish I could have liked this beer more, because it had everything going for it, but in the end it just ended up being a little stale, kind of like when you leave a bag of pretzels open over night. My buddy quite enjoyed it though, so maybe it was just me. I’m not overly found of biscuit-y flavoured beers, though I do love beers with a bread-y note to them, so I don’t know.