552 Reviews
At the big Ontario Craft Brewers conference and attending talks and sessions but once my thirst for knowledge was slaked it was time to head for the bar so the bartender could tend to my other thirst. And a grand thirst it was, so I selected a Royal City brew to see...
Is Avon selling beer door to door now? * No, it’s not the Avon Lady pressing that perfectly painted perfumed pointing finger on your doorbell peddling a new product. It’s The Avon Ale, from those crafters of curious crafts, the Something in the Water crew. What the...
Editor’s Comment: When we got a postcard “Wish you were beer” we knew our intrepid international man of mystery, JT, was on the road again. This trip finds him in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest has a myriad of must see spots including the stunning architecture of the...
It’s the big day. Our trick or treat countdown has encountered goblins and ghouls, flying monkeys and the devil himself. But what could be scarier than the spirits that occupy this 750ml bottle of 10% Imperial Stout The Summoning! This summons isn’t for a parking...
Our Cranky Old trick or treat countdown has us seeing ghosts. Back in the day a ghost was an apparition, a past person now dead but restless, manifesting to the living, deceased but not desisting, causing havoc and in general scaring the bejesus out of those of us...
The Department of Corrections sentenced me to some hard labour in the back 10 (I can’t afford a back 40 like Farmer Steve has) and when I was done I was thirstier than a Sonoran desert ditch digger. I reached for the first brew from the lager section of the beer...
On the farm everything is pretty down to earth. * You don’t give your livestock pretty names, a gelding is a gelding, no dickin’ around. So, it’s no surprise that the Anderson clan down on the homestead have some straightforward brew names. There was their cream ale,...
The name Augusta may hold special significance to you if you’re a golfer or a Roman Empress. * For anyone that has golfed with me it is quite clear I am not the former. And I have never cross dressed at a Toga party so that eliminates the latter. But if you are from...
The teeter totter, the yin and yang of the playground. I don’t remember my childhood experiences with the teeter totter having anything to do with a fine balance, quite the opposite in fact. The lighter yin participant stranded in space until the yang participant...
An extra special bitter is an English style pale ale, trying to do the classic balancing act between malt sweet and hoppy bitterness. Here at COMDB we have quaffed a few ESB, and the genre in general has not been all that special in our eyes, or glasses. * The...