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Go Pills Go!

Go Pills Go!

My Editor warned me about reviewing this one, take it easy on the Mafia he said. He didn’t realize that Thin Man is based in Buffalo NY and Pills Mafia is a tailgate tip of the tankard to the Bills Mafia, the hardcore Buffalo Bills football fan base. I’ve been a...

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Lager Blogger

Lager Blogger

My old concert going buddy Scotty C sent us a comment making a request for “more song and dance and more Lager reviews”. Some people sing like a bird, I sing like a frog. And dance for me is my left foot being introduced to my right foot. But one thing I can do is...

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In Theory Anyway

In Theory Anyway

When it comes to wine I know it comes in a bottle, bag or box, but that’s the extent of my knowledge of the vintner and the vine. As far a vine theory goes, it sounds confusing, confounding and beyond comprehension, to me anyway. But it comes as no surprise that a...

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Quoth the Raven

Quoth the Raven

Twas a late night cold and dreary, JT and I were getting beery, Over many a quaint and curious pints to score While I nodded nearly napping, at the window came a flapping And so did a midnight black Raven appear at my door. Where no bird had been before.   The...

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A Freshly Squeezed Juicy Ass

A Freshly Squeezed Juicy Ass

Pontificating once again with those two crazy Crownsmen, Jerrod and Rory, and I wanted to introduce them to an early influence of mine. They say you always remember your first and Juicy Ass was my first. Being an old school lager and pils guy I was somewhat reluctant...

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Sunshine Sketches of a Mariposa Marzen

Sunshine Sketches of a Mariposa Marzen

I enjoy a Mӓrzen as much as the next guy, that is if the next guy is wearing lederhosen and drinking from a boot glass.  That’s right. I love me a Mӓrzen. And who doesn’t love a story from Stephen Leacock about Mariposa.* Leacock’s summers were spent in Orillia, and...

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Mousetrap Please, Hold the Cheese

Mousetrap Please, Hold the Cheese

Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” holds the Guinness World record for the longest running play.* The name of the play comes from another play by none other than Shakespeare himself. “The play is the thing” Hamlet states and presents a play to King Claudius that is...

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Black is the New Red

Black is the New Red

When it comes to fashion, I know that plaid on plaid is a go to for us COM but I was unaware that black is the new red. Of course, there was that time in the bowling alley, and then the Shillow beer of the month club incident. Could this “red” be another case of...

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Aloha It’s Mainland Time

Aloha It’s Mainland Time

Big Wave, from the big island, owned by a big beer company, in a little itty bitty bottle.* It’s 12 ounces of Island time, a bit of a tropical island respite on a cool fall night. I wonder which island this bottle is from. Let’s see, according to the Kona label, this...

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