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Kipling once said “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet”. * What Rudyard (how’s that for a first name, thanks Mom, thanks Dad) didn’t count on was a collaboration between cottage country Sawdust City and the ever macabre malters at Third Moon....
A warm evening, cloud covered sky, no moon tonight. Well, just one I guess. What could be rarer than a COM Blue Moon sampling? * How about us sampling a Blue Moon Light, ironically on a night with no moon light. My disdain for Blue Moon is twofold. First, a major like...
The Green Hit? That would be “Let’s Stay Together”, Al Green’s 1972 first and only #1 song. Or maybe it’s a hole at a COM 18-hole golf tourney, the one green hit in regulation? Upon closer inspection it appears that our church-based brewer are practicing Rastafarians,...
A 7% lager attests to the gravity of the situation, as in high gravity brewing, a process usually reserved for bocks or triples to boost the booze. * Is it ironic that the original Apollo Seven ** was all about escaping gravity through liftoff while this Apollo Seven...
You’re a Cranky Old Captain assigned to fly that red eye from YYZ to YVR. * Riding in on the UP Express, you have a hankering for Henderson’s Best, an amber for the ages, and the aged. But no one wants a Foster Brooks ** at the wheel of their 747. What to do? How...
“It’s a bird. No, it’s a Plane. No, it’s a frog.” For those of you who were mid-60s Saturday morning cartoon aficionados you know the response. “It’s not a bird, a plane or even a frog, it’s just little old me, Underdog.” That’s right, in disguise as the humble and...
And the northern lights commenced to glow, And she said, with a tear in her eye Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow. * Not only was Frank Zappa awe struck by the northern lights, he also gave us some good advice. We shall heed his...
A Crownsmen show feature brew from Victoria, BC, this beer is in many ways much like the show. A perplexing mystery wrapped in an unfathomable enigma. Just as we never know where the show will go, or why anyone even watches it, or if anything on the show makes any...
I played a bit of hockey as a kid and I was a hockey parent. Lifetime fan of the Leafs for better or worse. I think I could even be a colour commentator for hockey night in Canada if I could keep it clean. But when Mike Myers introduced us to the expression “Elbows...
Although our collective agreement with the COMDB Translation Department is as restrictive as a straight jacket, it does have a few proverbial loopholes, and one is etymology. And I happen to know that our egghead Editor is an amateur etymologist of the first order, so...