553 Reviews
We usually review craft brews although occasionally we have ventured onto the dark side. That being big box brewer brews. And although we find in general the beers of mass consumption often lacking, as the old saying goes, even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in...
Last night I checked the cottage beer fridge for an evening IPA, an end of a scorcher of a day refresher, and grabbed a Bavarian 8.6 IPA. Sounded like just the ticket, and the extra 27ml of international bonus beer is almost all times appreciated. My Editor is...
A warm evening, cloud covered sky, no moon tonight. Well, just one I guess. What could be rarer than a COM Blue Moon sampling? * How about us sampling a Blue Moon Light, ironically on a night with no moon light. My disdain for Blue Moon is twofold. First, a major like...
A 7% lager attests to the gravity of the situation, as in high gravity brewing, a process usually reserved for bocks or triples to boost the booze. * Is it ironic that the original Apollo Seven ** was all about escaping gravity through liftoff while this Apollo Seven...
You’re a Cranky Old Captain assigned to fly that red eye from YYZ to YVR. * Riding in on the UP Express, you have a hankering for Henderson’s Best, an amber for the ages, and the aged. But no one wants a Foster Brooks ** at the wheel of their 747. What to do? How...
“It’s a bird. No, it’s a Plane. No, it’s a frog.” For those of you who were mid-60s Saturday morning cartoon aficionados you know the response. “It’s not a bird, a plane or even a frog, it’s just little old me, Underdog.” That’s right, in disguise as the humble and...
And the northern lights commenced to glow, And she said, with a tear in her eye Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow. * Not only was Frank Zappa awe struck by the northern lights, he also gave us some good advice. We shall heed his...
I played a bit of hockey as a kid and I was a hockey parent. Lifetime fan of the Leafs for better or worse. I think I could even be a colour commentator for hockey night in Canada if I could keep it clean. But when Mike Myers introduced us to the expression “Elbows...
Granny Smith cultivated them, René Magritte painted them, and the Beatles put them to music. * Sometimes used in ciders,** now Whitewater is turning them into beer. A green apple sour is the sour of the hour. I have tried peach, psychic pineapple, grape and mango...
I’m a patron of the arts. Arts and crafts actually. Gazing at a velvet Elvis while quaffing a craft is both fine and refined in my books. But how is Collective Arts going to do in our 0% experiment? Taking a Collective Arts brew to zero seems to me like taking a...