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After almost 40 years of training (marriage), I’m usually pretty good at following instructions, although the Department of Corrections may disagree. She blames my selective hearing for the occasional missed missive. Fair enough, at least I’m pretty good with...
CS Lewis wrote of the adventures of Lucy and Edmund and their trip with King Caspian X aboard his ship, the Dawn Treader.* Maybe I’m not as adventurous as all that, but I get the feeling I’m in uncharted waters every time I sample a sour. And this an IPA sour no less....
Another Scottish beverage to follow on the Robbie Burns theme started by RS, our own Cranky Old Bard in his recent review. If you aren't familiar with Robbie Burns, then you need to read Second Degree Burns by RS to catch up. You won't find any Scottish phrases here,...
I find it interesting that a country like Scotland, renowned for bag pipes and haggis, which I consider two of the most unromantic things in the world, has their biggest celebration of the year to honor their romantic poet laureate Robbie Burns.* I skipped the haggis...
From Bench, “the beer from wine country” comes an oaky pilsner, some wood craft so to speak. Oaked usually refers to a process of storing wine in oak barrels before bottling. All that Bench tell us is that this brew has “rustic complexity from the use of oak.” The...
It’s not The Clash,* but London is calling to tell us about their Organic 4PM Sunset suds, their oatmeal stout. And the COM are here to answer the call. So there’s a Sunset going down (sounds redundant) and my train of thought stopped at a station called Sundown, a...
I always appreciate a little wordsmithing so when this Karmageddon brew caught my eye I did a double take. I fancy myself a bit of a smith of the words as well so I got to thinking while I was drinking.* How about Pharmageddon, which is when the missus goes to the...
Us COM find ourselves out in left field quite often these days, with something ice cold on hold. 7 times to date to be exact, bird watching, and reminiscing about Mr.Oktober putting on a laser show. Enough baseball lingo, spring training is still a month away. * But...
A bit of a puzzle, this one. The green and gold on the can label are pretty unusual in the beer line up. The picture has a couple of birds - oh wait, they're Toucans,* drinking two cans of beer. That could be a piece of the puzzle. This is an oatmeal stout from Prince...
“Cause baby, now we got bad blood, You know it used to be mad love.”* I avoided some obvious ill vampire jokes because I figured a blatant and shameless Taylor Swift reference would boost our website viewership. I mean look what it did for the NFL.** Now about this...