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After two mediocre tastings a California Common sounded like a sound bet. And The Ol’ 39 sounded just fine, a Kame & Kettle special tribute to the local volunteer firefighters. Formerly called Schteam, referring of course to the original Cali Common steam beers....
Repackaged and in for a new review. Let’s see if this 5 O’Clock shadow grows on me. With the time change it just so happens that 5 O’Clock comes earlier now.* Unfortunately for me, or perhaps this review, that one hour we lost was the hour I had planned not to be...
I saw Grace Potter and the Nocturnals in concert in Orlando many years ago. It was in a small venue where you bought a beer and stood in the pit. It held maybe 400 people tops. Great band, high energy, and Potter has the “Voice”. Why am I rambling on about Grace...
According to a preeminent American academic journal,* you can build a bigger brain by increasing your vocabulary. At COMDB we are always looking for ways to get smarter, so welcome to a new COMDB feature “It Pays to Increase Your Word Power”, Our word of the day is...
Maybe the Dinghy Dock? Or perhaps the Black Bear? Could be Carlos O’Bryan’s or even Jinglepot. I’m not sure what bar in Nanaimo they are referring to but I’m 4,435 kms away from any one of them so it’s a moot point. Popping the top on this extra tall boy to watch the...
I saw this German Pil in the beer fridge, leftovers from Oktoberfest I assume. Got my pilsner glass out of the freezer and was ready to pour when something caught my eye. It was the letter “H”. The beer is a Phil, not a Pil. What the “H” E double hockey sticks is that...
The winner of Nickel Brook’s beer with no name contest is “Uncle Goose”! Apparently the goose theme was front and center. Here are a few of the less popular entries. Uncle Goosed Me – It was proposed that all proceeds go to the #NotMe movement.* The Goose from...
Stockyards is batting 1000 in the super suds ratings with us COM, so when I saw a festbier from them, a Kitchner based brewer no less, I thought it could be a tasty Oktoberfester. Unfortunately it’s November, and Oktoberfest is over and although not a distant memory...
Is it ironic or fitting, or both, that the phrase “double time” has multiple meanings. It could be a marching command from a gnarly staff seargeant.* Or a movie director calling out for Harrison Ford’s stunt double.** Or me getting twice the pay for writing this...
We have had no shortage of beers with bears to deal with. There was a bear on the run, bear hugs and huggy bears, bear wrestlers, bearded bears (aren’t they all), ominous omnivores, boxing bruins and hibernating grizzlies. The most spectacular bird feeder in the world...