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When I think of beer maybe I think of Half Cut, but not surprisingly my first thought isn’t clean cut. When it comes to clean cut I picture the opening of The Andy Griffith Show*, Andy and Opie, Father and son residents of Mayberry North Carolina, walking home down a...
That ol’ iron horse pulling out of the Stockyards reminded me of the classic song “Train Kept A Rollin”*. With Jeff Beck’s recent passing this Yardbirds staple is just one of many great songs to remember him by. What Stockyards out of Kitchener tell us is that their...
The bear on the can with the hands of a man is reading the North Bay newspaper from February 20th, 1945. In addition to news of Allied victories on many fronts (Germany surrendered on May 7 1945) the other major headline would have been the downtown blaze that burnt...
Out on the slopes with the grandkids and paying the price, so perhaps harkening back to Christmas, like one of those herald angels, with a festive stout may raise my spirits. Note to Self: Fishing may not be the best off-season conditioning program for down-hill...
Broadhead aren’t giving us the gears when they name their oatmeal stout Oatmeal Stout. Coincidence? I think not. There is very little mystery to this glass of stout, but don’t worry, I’m still going to get to the bottom of it. They tell us to “work hard, drink easy”....
I parle vous a bit and occasionally the COMDB translation department lets me have a go at some of the more basic Francais. I did recognize right away the word pamplemousse, which means grapefruit in English. Upon closer examination of the artwork on the can I see a...
I don’t think anyone would mistake me for someone who is carb or calorie conscious and I wouldn’t know an electro-light from a red light, but that didn’t stop me from trying this Rally session lager with electrolytes. To be honest, my first thought was that an...
My first thought when I saw 360 was I wonder what 5 days of the year we shouldn’t be drinking this brew on and was today one of them? Then I thought “I guess a February 29th is right out.” Then I thought “today is a day, it might as well be the day!”* Sleeping Giant...
In one of the odder Hollywood castings Charlton Heston plays the Mexican lead in the 1958 Orson Welles movie “Touch of Evil”. * Perhaps I was thinking of this while opening a Mexican lager from a North Bay brewer, an odd pairing as well? Much closer to their home,...
A dark wheat beer. Is that an oxymoron? Yin and yang. Weiss and Dunkel. Ebony and ivory*. No, that’s a Dunkelweizen. According to Erdinger this is a specialty beer for connoisseurs**. I guess that makes any one of us who shop for craft beer at the LCBO a connoisseur....