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A Classy Classic

A Classy Classic

Time for another defining moment for COMDB.  “Classic” is defined as “being judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind”. We have featured a number of classics in our reviews. A bootleg album with a misspelled “Starway to...

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A Collaboration Celebration

A Collaboration Celebration

When two of our favourite brewers get together it calls for a collaboration celebration. If you are thinking to yourself, “what’s the big deal, it’s just a pilsner” I think you need to rethink your thinking. This is no ordinary, typical, run of the mill, common place...

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Savoir Faire Bear

Savoir Faire Bear

Is this bring your Ursus Maritimus to the bar week or what? After an Eisbӓren bock bear, now we are sampling a Boréale big white bear beer. Then there was that polar park pilsner we partook in. Or that high flying great white in flight from Maverick.  I could go on an...

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An East and West Taste Test

An East and West Taste Test

"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet" so said Rudyard Kipling * long before Muskoka brewed this bicoastal toast to East and West.  The brew name reminded me of Howard Hughes, or is that Hugh Hefner? I always get those two confused. One...

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High End from Midtown

High End from Midtown

I was preparing for that reliable sign of spring arrival. Not the Cherry blossom festival. Not the tune-up on the lawn mower. No, this is the seasonal Toronto Maple Leaf disintegration in the Stanley Cup playoffs. There is always a glimmer of hope and I wanted a good...

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Bock Bear

Bock Bear

The COMDB Translation department tell us that an Eisbӓren is a Polar bear. I've seen browns and blacks in the wild (if you want to call my trailer porch or my backyard the wild) but I've only ever seen a polar bear doing its sad slow to and fro nowhere to go walk at...

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Light But Not a Light

Light But Not a Light

A light beer that technically isn’t light. * A pilsner that they say is a Euro style lager. An Off the Hop Brewhouse brew, brewed at Newark Brewery. Is anything about this brew as it seems? Is this one of Rumsfeld’s unknown unknowns? A hops and malt mystery wrapped in...

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Another Strong Blonde that Rocks

Another Strong Blonde that Rocks

Blondie, Billy Idol, Taylor Momsen, Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Sting, and Grace Potter.  All strong blondes who rock. * Ok, I know, there is a lot of peroxide in the mix but it’s rock and roll, so anything goes. Now I’ll introduce you to another strong blonde that rocks,...

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First Ride Hop Side

First Ride Hop Side

First ride of the season is always something special. Fingers crossed that the battery will crank over that 28 year old V-twin. After a couple of nerve shaking backfires taking it down the road, hoping it won’t stall at the first stop light. Easy on the corners, watch...

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Sipping Sea Side Suds from La Belle Province

Sipping Sea Side Suds from La Belle Province

Driving back from la belle province I had to do some “parle en douceur” to convince the sûreté du Québec that all the beer I was bringing back was for personal consumption.  Once I identified myself as one of the cranky old men who “boire de la bière” the officer gave...

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