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Dark Lager? Sounds like COMDB to the rescue with some entertaining names for this aptly but unimaginatively named brew. How about “Drinking with Springsteen on the Edge of Town” or maybe “Dancing with a Dark”. * Or a classic reference, “A Beer After Conrad’s Own...
Way back in the day, driving South from a 4 month tour of duty at the mines, I headed into Toronto to catch up with my old buddy Smitty. I can still remember the bar had a complex bamboo fan arrangement on the ceiling all connected by chains and sprockets. We sat down...
In the Nashville of the North back in the day The Mattagami was the city’s cultural center, although the Maple Leaf could be a contender for the crown as well. The more sophisticated residents and visitors to Timmins would venture to the Mattagami for a libation or...
Ducks I have no problem with. The otter that shits on my dock, that’s a different matter. The Department of Morality loves the playful little rodent but she isn’t the one washing down the dock. Today he left the remains of a crayfish (claws that’s all) and his calling...
When it comes to German, the only words I learned in my youth were from Hogan’s Heroes. In other words “I know nothing, nothing!”* That’s one reason why the COMDB translation department gets so much work around Oktoberfest time. However, in this case Sawdust City has...
The Jackson 5 took us back to basics, teaching us our ABCs and 123’s. Of course, MJ was too young to be having a beer in those days,* let alone hooking up with the girl he’s singing to, but no one seemed to notice back in those “innocent’ times. A 12 year old singing...
According to Bellwoods, the Ratclops is a mythical brewery beast. I picture a Darwinian metamorphosis of the Muridae family , hunkering down under the vats, feasting on yeast, gorging on ungainly grains, and ferreting away festering fermentations. The results being...
This hair of the dog looks dark, dank and dangerous. The Kame & Kettle crew make it clear that this is no run of the mill dark lager, but is in fact a black ale. They tell us “one sip and you’ll be wagging your tail”. I don’t know about all that tail wagging...
Dobie Gray just wanted to drift away. Clint was on the high plains drifting. And Bow Wow was doing the Tokyo drift. In case you aren’t familiar with Bow Wow perhaps you know him from his original stage name, Lil’ Bow Wow.* Back here in the COMDB land of semi-reality I...
After two mediocre tastings a California Common sounded like a sound bet. And The Ol’ 39 sounded just fine, a Kame & Kettle special tribute to the local volunteer firefighters. Formerly called Schteam, referring of course to the original Cali Common steam beers....