The Brew Frog

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BUY / CONDITIONAL / SKIP.
Most beers aren’t worth it —
I find the ones that are.

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Most beers aren’t worth it.

I find the ones that are.
🍺 Buy it or skip it.

Follow if you don’t want to waste money on bad beer.

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Good beers survive the second can.
This one did.

Patina Hazy Pale Ale — Patina Brewing Co.
Port Coquitlam, BC

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Sometimes the hardest thing for a brewery to do is stop adding things.

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Not the loudest beer.
Not the most complicated.
Just the one I kept reaching for.

Play Dead IPA — Yellow Dog Brewing

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The name promises chaos.
The beer delivers balance.

Big Sexy Funk — Strathcona Beer Company

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Good wasn't enough here.

It starts fine, finishes fine, and never becomes much more than that.

Dawn Pilsner — Parkside Brewery, Port Moody, BC

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Not every IPA needs a big swing.

Some are just steady, balanced, and easy to spend time with.

Canoe Chase IPA
Smugglers Trail Brewing
Langley, BC

🐸 7/10 — BUY
easy to come back to

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Filthy Dirty IPA starts strong and stays steady.

Never falls off.
Never levels up.

Just a clean, reliable beer the whole way.
Not every BUY needs to be an 8 or 9.
Sometimes a 7 is right.

Filthy Dirty IPA
Parallel 49 Brewing
Vancouver, BC

🐸 7/10 — BUY
worth another can

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A lot of breweries chase bigger flavour.
Parkside Motel proves you don't always need it.

Parkside Motel Hazy Pale Ale
Parkside Brewery
Port Moody, BC

🐸 8/10 — BUY
easy second can

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Between a beer that gets your attention
and a beer that keeps it.

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there's more after the first sip

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The first sip got my attention.

The rest of the can never really changed my mind.

Pink Power Tropical POG Hibiscus Sour — Parallel 49

🐸 6/10 — CONDITIONAL
glad I tried it at least.

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Most IPAs start sanding off the edges.
The better ones don’t.

🐸 8/10 — BUY

keeps the bite

Jagged Face IPA — Mount Arrowsmith Brewing
Parksville, BC

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Some beers win the first sip.

The better ones are still drinking well near the bottom of the can.

🐸 8/10 — BUY
worth another can

Trailbreaker Hazy Pale Ale — Backcountry Brewing
Squamish, BC

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What beer never gets old for you?
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Most IPAs lose the balance somewhere.
Permanent Resident doesn’t.

Permanent Resident IPA — Five Roads Brewing Co.
Langley, BC

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Most pale ales lose me before the can is finished.

Crystal Falls keeps the balance.
Crystal Falls Pale Ale — Mariner Brewing
Coquitlam, BC
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Canadian Pilsner keeps everything where it should be.

Clean.
Crisp.
Repeatable.

🐸 8/10 — BUY

Camp Beer Co.
Langley, BC
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Tropical fruit.
Soft body.
Clean finish.

Parklandia delivers the haze without the heaviness — steady through the middle and balanced at the end.

🐸 8/10 — BUY
Parklandia Hazy IPA
Stanley Park Brewing

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Most modern IPAs forgot bitterness.
This one didn’t.

Pine forward. Dry finish. Steady the whole way through.

🐸 8/10 — BUY
forest beer

Locality Brewing — Wild Side of 248th

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Break Point is the kind of pilsner that earns its spot — clean finish, balanced bitterness, and steady every time.

Just missing that tiny extra push into the memorable tier.

🐸 7/10 — BUY
Vancouver Island Brewing

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Widowmaker feels built for rainy nights — warmer bitterness, slower pacing, and still balanced halfway through.

Backcountry Brewing — Widowmaker IPA

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