555 Reviews
Living the Van life and loving it. No, I’m not living in a van. It’s just another stop on the COM Vancouver brew tour and I’m at a fancy pants dining establishment that those of us in the know refer to as “The Club”. Actually, everyone calls it that because that’s its...
Apparently “Van Life” is a thing, that thing being living in your van. I thought that was just an initial stage in the career of every country and western singer, but some people actually live in their van by choice. I did a bit of research and as you can imagine, van...
Winter Storm Warning in Effect: For residents of Intense City. There’s a Sou’easter coming in from the Northwest that’s bringing with it more snow than a Studio 54 party. * We suggest you hunker down and drink up and before you try to dig out stay in with a nice Ice...
A cool night cozy up by the cottage fire with a buxom Belgian blonde sounds like a cranky old alliteration addict’s dream come true. So here I am, taking on another Tripel, I guess I’m old enough to know but not to know better. Still hope springs eternal, or is that...
Let me tell you about road trips. There was that one to the Kiss concert in TO. Then what about a spur of the moment trip to Kitchener Waterloo Oktoberfest. And all those A-Bay happy hours just South of the border. Or a motorcycle ride from BC to Ontario and then on...
Have you ever said to yourself “that’s either a great idea or a terrible idea”? Me too. That’s exactly what I said to myself when I saw a red pilsner on the menu. I had previously enjoyed an SOB dark, a Steel & Oak beer that is in case you were wondering which of...
The COM are in the studio with the crownsmen and crownsladies for the show with the info, the webcast that’s a blast, and the hosts with the toasts. That’s right, it’s another episode of The Crownsmen Show. I was prepared for a tasting I’d been so looking forward to,...
The last 8.6 we tried was a contrarian Bavarian. I was expecting German and got Holland. I was expecting an IPA and got an IPL. As far as the 8.6 name goes, nothing too complicated about that. Their flagship Lager is 8.6% ABV, “intense by nature” they call it. ...
Muskoka had us take a Detour before, a light session IPA that garnered mixed reviews. But if you think a session IPA is off the beaten track, Muskoka is about to veer to the far left (ABV content as opposed to any implied political leanings) with their non-alcoholic...
I sometimes indulge, if that’s the right word, in a big brewer beer, just to remind myself how much I enjoy craft beers. Case in point, although I’d never buy a case, is big ol’ Beck’s beer from Bremen, Germany. Part of the Anheuser-Busch InBev. empire, there’s none...