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“Come together, right now, beer me”. In 1969 the Beatles were singing my song, 6 months later they split up. * According to Silversmith and Blackburn some things are just better together. I would tend to agree. There’s Lennon and McCartney, Matthews and Marner, The...
Coffee Cream Ale? London Brewing says their cream ale base is so good that it will go with anything. I had some cream ale dreams but they were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee. London Brewing, you’re so vain, you probably think this review is about you, don’t...
Parsons. The name sounded familiar. I do have a couple of Alan Parsons Project LPs, and I have attended church when required to, but I never dated the Parsons daughter. * But I think I remember seeing a Parsons at one of the COMDB AGMs (Annual Golf Meeting) but it...
Poco? Odd name for a beer. A tribute to a 70’s soft rock country band perhaps? An acronym of some sort, Pints of Crafty Origins? A short form name for John Smith’s saving grace? * None of these really seemed to make sense. Whatever Breakwall from POrt COlborne had in...
After some fancy pants pints that poured well but didn’t score well, * I could use a beer that tastes like beer right about now. A back-to-basics brew was needed to restore some semblance of order to the universe. How about a Munich style lager, purity laws adhered...
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...
I’ve had browns nuttier than a flat earther, smoky suds smokier than a five alarm fire, and honey lagers sweeter than Saccharin.* When it comes to flavoured brews I’m an avid advocate of the KISS principle (keep it subtle sudsmaster). A smoked honey brown sounds like...
For all you amateur ornithologists out there, yes there is such a thing as a Pacific Loon, which not coincidentally is a West coast diver, although not unlike another West Coast group, the Beach Boys, it gets around. * This is our second Two Loons, the first being Two...
The Department of Corrections sentenced me to some hard labour in the back 10 (I can’t afford a back 40 like Farmer Steve has) and when I was done I was thirstier than a Sonoran desert ditch digger. I reached for the first brew from the lager section of the beer...