BeerCrank.ca's top 10 posts of 2025

I got excited at the beginning of the year - I noticed that my traffic was skyrocketing all of a sudden. I thought that people were coming to BeerCrank.ca to look for suggestions for true made-in-Canada beer that's owned by Canadians and not multinational corporations. Well, turns out it wasn't from an "elbow's up" approach, it was more that AI bots were scraping data from my website and millions of others for their services. Darn, ah well. The actual traffic to the website is down but here's the top ten posts I wrote in 2025.

10. Canadian Whisky needs no "e" - I'm not surprised that this came on my list. I constantly see Canadian Whisky being spelled "Whiskey" on social media, media, etc. This is one of those few times that a word referring to something Canadian has less characters than the American counterpart. A rule of thumb - if a country has the letter "e" in their name (such as Ireland), it's spelled with an "e". This bothers me more than it should. 

9. Oxus Brewing Runner's Reward: Paul's Saison - Brewed in honour of a great friend to Oxus Brewing following a 5K run in his name. Oxus is my pick for the most underrated brewery in Manitoba and they did a fabulous job on this Rye Saison. It recently came back to my local LC so I've bought it a few times since.

8. Mike's Halfer Lemonade + Busch Light - Probably the last Mike's Hard product I'll ever review. It tasted exactly how it sounds like but there's a big following to this beer. It's a meh Shandy.

7. Blood Brothers' Cunning of Hand 12 Hazy IPA - Decent Hazy IPA from one of the best breweries I visited in 2025. Sweet, tropical, hazy, reminiscent of Five Alive.

6. Corona Cero 0.0% Alcohol-free Beer with Natural Flavour and Vitamin D - Pretty much a rebrand of Corona Sunbrew. It was decent but I was kind of expecting it to be a bit citrusy due to the added Vitamin D.

5. Flying Monkeys' Quantum Hugs Cold IPA - I don't know why this review faired as well as it did - it was a solid IPA but didn't wow me at all.. but I'll always support Flying Monkeys.

4. Obsolete Brewing The Good, The Bad & The Ugly NEIPA - There's a lot of attention towards Dauphin's Obsolete Brewing, they've won a lot of awards and they get constant praise by the craft beer industry. This is the most popular review I've ever written about a beer produced in Western Manitoba. The "Be Kind, Rewind" series is a fan favourite as well. Solid hazy NEIPA. 

3. A Revisit: Heineken 0.0 Alcohol-Free Beer - I first reviewed Heineken's 0.0% Lager back in 2018 and I wrote it off immediately. Well, I bought a case of Heineken and it came with a few goodies including a can of the 0.0% beer. Well, it's improved significantly since I first tried it - tweaked in every category. Very good offering for a non-alcoholic beer.

2. Twisted Tea Extreme Blue Razz - A higher ABV take on their regular Twisted Tea series. Due to the boycott of American-made products, the classic malt-based Twisted Tea no longer exists in Canada so they've pivoted a bit to come out with a few new flavours. This flat out tastes like childhood in a can. It's got iced tea, the taste of a blue Freezie and a boozy kick. Very sweet and one of my go-to sugary beverages at the LC.

1. Corona Sunbrew 0.0% - This is by far the most popular thing I wrote in 2025. It took me a number of years to review it but it got attention within hours (but that could have been due to bots scraping my website for information..). Only weeks after I finally reviewed this product it was discontinued but it solidifies as one of the most popular Non-Alcoholic beer reviews of all time, with only Budweiser and Coors' offerings being more popular. The beer was replaced with Cero back in the summer, which as you saw made it in the top ten list.