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End of summer, bummer. As Joni used to say “summertime is falling down and winter is closing in”. Maybe the Beach Boys envisaged an endless summer but the Guess Who had Winter all year long. * The boys of summer are done and the other day I was in fits with the...
At the big Ontario Craft Brewers conference and you would think at a big beer event like this there would be a coffee stout break. There was lots of coffee they made the old fashion way, they urned it. * But without a doubt there was no stout about. I spied a Second...
Day 2 at the Ontario Craft Brewers conference and right out of the gate, Jake Karls takes the cake, or the chocolate squares at least * After a sociable or two the evening before some of the crowd were singing The Orange Juice Blues ** but he roused the rabble with a...
At the Ontario Craft Brewers big beer conference and the taps open at 10AM, about the time I’m usually having my second cup of coffee, and Farmer Steve is having his second pot. You would have to cross the Atlantic to find that special 5 o’clock somewhere spot at 10AM...
Another Frontibus in front of us, right from the Gaspe coast to my end table coaster. Our COMDB Translation Department made quick work of this one. L’Amiral is “The Admiral” in English. Now if you’re thinking about Horatio Nelson or that old joke about the “rear”...
This isn’t the first pint of paradise we have partaken in. We found Paradise Lost and sampled Newfoundland’s provincial bird,* the Space Puffin straight out of Paradise NL. This Clifford pint of paradise is artificial, and that’s official, but not superficial. We...
They say the devil is in the details. * They say a lot of other trite cliches as well, but some how this one seemed appropriate. Our Cranky Old trick or treat countdown has bookend Blood Brothers Bellwoods brews. First their Goblin’s Trill, and now their Devil’s...
On our Cranky Old trick or treat countdown we’ve dealt with ghouls and goblins but we are about to take on perhaps the scariest fictional fright of fancy yet. Could it be the extremely malnourished gentleman that graces the can of Kryptonite 7.0? That zom-boney on...
Kicking off the Cranky Old trick or treat countdown with the alliterative craft collab combo of Bellwoods & Blood Brothers. I’m doubling down and downing a double with a Goblin’s Trill. Will it be the trill of victory or the agony of defeat? * Both brewers were...
A James Brown dance move, a starchy supper staple, and now a beer! * Once thought extinct by aleontologists, the rarely brewed and not oft quaffed potato lager is ready for a big-time comeback courtesy of Sawdust City. The COMDB translation department quickly told us...