1099 Reviews
As the new year begins I find myself in the dark again. Asking myself why anyone would brew a dark IPA and why I'm drinking one. Roasted malts and juicy hops, strange bedfellows indeed. * But those Lake of Bay brewers know their Ps and Qs (pints and quarts) and they...
Back in the day midnight was the midpoint of our New Year’s Eve celebrations and libations. These days it's Scattegories with the grandkids then one and done to fuel the sheer fortitude required to stay up until midnight. So picking my New Year’s eve brewski was a...
The COMDB Translation Department did a sombrero dance around this one and came up with El Camino meaning “the Path” or “the way”. Is it the path to follow or Frost’s road less travelled. I know when I’m in Toronto I always get lost in The Path * and that shortcut to a...
After a series of less than super suds samplings, just like Diane K. I was looking for Mr. Goodbeer. * A craving for a curious craft led me to an establishment known to us COMDB as the Curious Club, the one and only Something in the Water, the Kingston version not...
It’s Christmas Eve eve. No that’s not a holiday greeting in the Garden of Eden, but a redundant day before Christmas eve moniker.* Beli-eve Eve? It also seems like an ideal eve for a chocolate stout, because after all what Cranky Old Christmas countdown would be...
Just like all pilsners are lagers but not all lagers are pilsners, so to are all clementines tangerines but not all tangerines are clementines. * As far as a Christmas stocking full of clementines goes, I don’t have any childhood memories of such a fruitful sock...
Last call rings, can you hear? At the bar, for one more beer. A beautiful sight, we’re happy tonight, drinking in a Winter Ale wonderland. * Ever since I first quaffed one of their brews I’ve been an Anderson farm fresh fan. But, and this is a Cardi B size butt, **...
He’s back! Yes, this brew is an official recommendation from Bud, the Elf on the Beer Shelf. And we all know what that means. It’s the start of the Cranky Old Christmas Countdown. Bud is sweet on sweets so he usually goes for the loco cocoa brews but it looks like he...
After a visit to the Bobby Orr Hockey Hall of Fame in Parry Sound, I stopped in on the Hole in the Wall gang,* those fine folks at Trestle. Why the name trestle you ask. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. As for the Orr hockey hall, some great memorabilia and...
Time for the daily grind, just catching up on my brew reviews with my first java jolt of the morning. When it comes to coffee I’ll never catch up to Farmer Steve who is probably just finishing his first pot. Meanwhile Fonger is still dreaming about the pot from the...