78 Reviews
Thanksgiving in the great white North and what I’m thankful for is it’s only once a year that I am contractually obligated to sample a pint of the pumpkin persuasion. That useless old fruit (I’m talking about a pumpkin, not our Editor), that odious orange orb that is...
Another defining moment in the history of COMDB. “Hedonism is the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life” and just like Dr. Dre and Ice-Cube, that’s straight outta Compton.* Meanwhile masochism is deriving pleasure from pain. Can a...
From the land of the Stampede and the Stampeders (both of them),* Stetsons and the Saddledome. Partake comes from Calgary as a cowboy contender for the COMDB zero percent crown. Now a staple across Canadian and US grocery stores, Partake tell us that they brew “for...
John and Paul told us that “it’s getting better all the time, because it can’t get no worse.” * Have you ever noticed that whenever someone says it can’t get any worse, it does? Don’t despair (it doesn’t do much good anyway), there are good people working to make...
The Department of Morality calls the grand kids li’l angels. I wouldn’t go so far as to call them li’l heathens (like my Grandparents used to call us) but there are a couple of slightly tarnished halos in the mix. Maybe li’l rascals might be a reasonable compromise....
It’s Thursday, that means it’s time for another Cranky Old Crownsmen collaboration. As always, we discussed a myriad of current and important topics. Subject matter ranged from fashion faux pas,* to early signs of aging, then on to provocative truth telling, and...
I don’t play favourites, but if I did Sawdust City would be in play. What makes a brewer great, in my humble opinion? Great beer, obviously. The COMDB guide to beer tasting tells us to pick a beer based on a funny name, and SC does that up in sevens and spades....
This Boréale bitter bear from Montreal is on the hunt for hops and it looks like he’s found them. Lots of them. A heapin’ helpin’ of hops. They tell us that this IPA has an “unmistakable bitterness” and they ain’t lyin’. They tell us that this beer “celebrates...
Last night’s lacklustre Leafs’ lopsided loss was nothing near the barn burner I was hoping for. Maybe the lethargic loss could be consoled with a Beau’s Barn Burner? Perhaps, or perhaps not. Beau’s tell us that this is “classic amber ale, reimagined.” Imagine that....
Our craft connoisseur RA is on the case with a Haven German style pale lager. RA does not make a decision to not finish a beer lightly. When he is done before it is done, that is almost never done, so you know that a pour poor quaffing is in the offing. Normally I...