March has been kind to us thus far in southern Ontario: high single or low double digit temperatures in the day, loads of sun, cool but still above freezing nights. Just the kind of weather fit for a cigar and a beer.
Okay, so maybe it’s not ideal cigar-and-beer weather, since sitting outdoors – so as to either comply with the law or not stink up the abode – would still call for a warm jacket in the evening. But the idea is not without its charms, even as just the briefest taste of spring.
Yet, what beer? It would need to be sturdy enough to stand up to cigar smoke, potent enough to warm the soul in cooling temps, and yet refreshing in the way that a good cigar beer needs be. Doppelbock, perhaps? Or better still…
If you pass by the corner of Spadina and Front in downtown Toronto this eve, look up and see the jacketed outline of a soul with a glass of something black in one hand and a smoking Cuban in the other, well, that will be me, and that will be the beer.
