553 Reviews
I remember a friend of mine from the UK quoting Winston Churchill who said “Soccer is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans, and rugby is a hooligan’s game played by gentlemen“. I was never quite sure exactly what that quote meant but it seemed fitting to open this...
First game of the cup final and it’s Vegas baby, and the house always wins. The Department of Morality has the AC cranked, and my basement lazy boy and big screen is in a deep freeze, so I have the faux fire blazing. Summertime hockey, so why not a by the fire...
Just like ol’ Robert Cray, I was warned about this suicide blonde, that her sweet’s gone sour.* Yes, the game was afoot**, this miss was amiss, this brew was askew. What the hell am I talking about you must be thinking.*** This innocent ale, so labelled as a blonde,...
Is a Belgian wit a comedian from Brussels? I wish. Instead, it’s the dreaded wheat beer, not a COMDB favourite by any stretch of the taste buds. And not just any wheat, a Belgian one. But as I open my beer fridge, this beer of the month club offering is challenging me...
Out on the lake tonight trying to catch a couple of fat bass-tards. No luck, but that’s maybe a good thing because I don’t think fat bass-tard season is open yet. Ever try visualization? It doesn’t work for fishing, unless you are visualizing not catching anything....
Mondo is an adjective that means something remarkable or striking, surfers would say a mondo wave is of epic proportions. They may not be outstanding in their field, but the COMDB translation department had a field day with the word “mondo”. They tell us that in...
There is no such thing as a bumbleberry, but I do remember a girl in high-school nicknamed “bumble buns” which of course represents a different food group. That didn’t sound right, did it? Anyway, there is such a thing as bumbleberry pie which is a unique Canadian...
After exploring my Regina in depth, we head east to the belle province for a west coast IPA. Racking up some air miles here. I parle vous a bit and in my books “Belle-mere” means mother-in-law, but the girl gracing this beer can looks like no mother-in-law I ever met....
Small guns and big suspicions. A dangerous combination. Another dangerous combination in my books is high ABV and a stout. Dark, dangerous and complex, and almost the highest ABV we have sampled, this Collective Arts Imperial stout has someone peeling me a grape* with...
Continuing their Globetrotter Adventure Series, All or Nothing’s intrepid traveller Cornelius Sandiego is in the UK to check out something extra special of the malt and hops persuasion. When I think of Globetrotters I think of Meadowlark Lemon and the Harlem...