553 Reviews
First of all, I know it’s not the first day of spring. But it seemed like a good spring time brew to go with an Easter weekend. That religious holiday with chocolate eggs and an imaginary rabbit delivering them. Not sure what symbolism is going on here, but when it...
I remember as a kid the sci-fi story that got me hooked on the genre was “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. The ending blew me away!* It was our first introduction as a society to the butterfly effect.** Bench has named this beer the Ripple Effect, not referring to...
Murdoch Mystery beer? I am always suspect of a brew named to ride to coattails of a popular TV show, or even a CBC TV show. Although come to think of it I was skeptical about Puppers and it was a pretty damn good brew. But on Kilkenny they are drinking Puppers beer so...
Can we get a Huhh Yeah for the ghetto blaster? No, he wasn't a gun toting vigilante. Are you sure you’re over 19? The ghetto blaster on the can, or the politically correct and original name boom box, is booming out a Huhh Yeah! for this light lager from Newark. That’s...
When you retire you get lots of advice. Financial tips from guys trying to borrow money from you. Happiness advice from pissed-off old timers done wrong by the world. Relationship guidelines from people on their fifth spouse. Health advisories from people twice as...
To all you brewers who brew good brew, we appreciate all you do do, but one thing not to do, is to overdo the yuzu. JT took at 3:10 to Yuzu and enjoyed the trip. I Yabai dabadooed an impressive Black Bellows rice a roni Lager but I am new to yuzu. So now we have a...
Probably the most famous wandering monk would be Buddha, or would The Buddha be the definite article? * Leonard Cohen was a relatively stationary monk for five years during which time his accountant wandered off with all his money. Thelonious Monk travelled the...
Hoppy, smooth, convenient. Convenient? This how the third of our Four Peaks is described. I like the visual word play in the beer name, HAZY, bolding the AZ paying tribute to Arizona.* But out of 4800 adjectives available in the English language, not including...
I remember the black light I had in my room as a teenager, with those velvet neon posters. That may have been the beginnings of my appreciation of the fine arts. But a black light always seemed like a bit of an oxymoron to me, like a civil engineer or a cool editor.*...
St.Thomas, the Railway City, has seen a few boxcars in it’s heyday. More than 100 rail cars a day used to travel through the St.Thomas station including the locomotive that hit and killed poor Jumbo the elephant! Does it seem ironic only to me that the most famous...