Kate Dalgleish drowns her sorrows while playing Canadian Brewopoly
Canadian
Brewopoly review
Submitted by Kate Dalgleish
I'll
admit it, I like to play Monopoly.
More often than not, I'll try to stomp younger cousins or bored friends
at
whatever something-opoly board I can find. And boy, have I found the
board for
me! Brewopoly! Beer themed Monopoly!
And this is the Canadian edition,
so it's
all those Canuck microbrews that I thrive on.
Normal Monopoly rules, but instead of properties, it's beers! There's all sorts of gems, such as Halifax's Propeller ESB, Toronto's Steam Whistle Pilsner, Yukon Brewing's Yukon Gold and my hometown favourite, Calgary's Wild Rose Brewery Wraspberry Ale.
Railways have become Reinheisgebot-positive hops, barley, yeast and water, utilities have become a bottle opener and a chilled mug (but doesn't that take away the taste?) and Luxury Tax has now become the feared Skunk Beer Fine.
I decided to give it a spin, so I dragged my non-beer snob friend into a quick three-hour game. She picked the pilsner glass token, I went for the bottle opener. Things started out calm, with us each buying whatever we landed on, but then things turned for the worse.
My friend, now opponent, started running onto my beers and worse, into Last Call (jail). The game turned tense when I bought a series of East Coast brews and proceeded to place as many brewpubs (houses) as I could onto them.
We
then took a
quick break to catch part of
a hockey game on TV. (We're
Canadian, come on!) But once we returned to
our game of Canadian Brewopoly with fresh
drinks and popcorn, we settled back into brutal rivalry!
Several bad rolls caused my friend to land on my microbreweries (hotels) and a trivia question about pilsners sucked away her last cash, leaving me victorious! But how long until my rule is challenged?
Really, Canadian Brewopoly is fun, especially if you're into board games. The design is a little too busy and it's hard to tell what some of the beers are, since only the labels are used, but a few minutes in and it's easy to figure out the layout. I definitely plan to play it again, hopefully with a larger group and more alcohol.
For
all you Monopoly and beer
fans out there, this is the type you should have on your basement
shelf. It's
not restricted to Canadians, the 'normal' version is
presumably based on
American microbreweries (click to buy from Amazon). All I can
say is that it works up quite a
thirst for a
good brew afterwards, especially having to sing 10 rounds of "99
Bottles
of Beer" or be forced to forfeit 50 bucks!
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