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On the road again, figuratively speaking, while sitting in my comfy Lazy Boy watching the Leafs. This beer is taking me back to my favourite East Coast town, Bathurst NB.* I have fond memories of my visits to Bathurst. The great people at Brunswick Mine. The missus...
1969 was quite a year for rock music. Woodstock was 3 days of peace love and mud, with the notorious Altamont * at the other end of the peace and love spectrum. The Beatles parked their Yellow Submarine on Abbey Road and Bowie was a space oddity. We were introduced to...
The Köstritzer brewery is named after the town of Bad Köstritzer in central Germany and is famous for their schwarzbier which they have been brewing since 1543. They even call their brewery a Schwarzbier brewery. So how will they do with a pale pilsner? A quaffing is...
Editor’s Note: Our “craftsman” RA does some ghostbusting on this one. This beer name seemed hauntingly familiar and it turns out it is not our first ghost ship. Black Sail was sighted on the horizon previously and hauled in a good review. The brewer Adnams Sothwold,...
As a fisherman, I totally get Captain Ahab’s obsession with Moby Dick, or Santiago’s dogged resolve in bringing in that giant marlin.* There is something in the water for sure and once the ice is out there will be two things in the water. My line and that lunker...
Ok Collective Arts, listen up. I have said this before but I am not going to say this again. I figure there must be a few struggling, starving artists in Canada waiting for their big break. For you to give your beer can space to help them is a very Canadian thing to...
Crowd surfing. Diving into a sea of strangers at a rock concert and hoping they will not drop you or move out of the way as you make your stage dive. Who could ever have thought up and actually tried for the first time such a wild, fraught with risk, most likely to...
When you are reviewing brews, you have to watch your Ps and Qs,* your ABVs and your IBUs. Case in point is this stout from down on the Anderson homestead. A high ABV for a traditional stout and a high IBU too. Not imperial or impervious, but nonetheless I must confess...
I love me an amber. An ember, not so much. But this Burning Ember is a Lake of Bays Red IPA so maybe it will be an ember to remember. The brewers will explain a red IPA with a lot of technical mumbo jumbo but basically it’s more malts to go with the hops. Another...
This is a New England high tide, but did you know that New Scotland actually has the highest tides in the world? Yes, Canada has the highest tides in the world at our very own Bay of Fundy, and as an added bonus you get two of them a day. Fact check that Mr. Editor.*...