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Old Robbie Burns told us that the best laid plans of Cranky Old Men often go awry. * For example, let’s take this year’s Muskoka Oktoberfest gathering of the COM. A battle of the Festbiers was in the offing for a quaffing with an impressive lineup of Oktoberfest...
My first thought was ring and post was a modern-day wedding engagement announcement. Beyoncé tells us there is no bootylicious until you put a ring on it.* However, once again I have made an incorrect assumption and gone off on a bit of a tangent. It appears this...
I’ve been out on the lake many times at last light, line in the water, coaxing those fat-basstards to take hook line and sinker so I can wet the net. No surf boats making waves, no old hounds on dock or shore barking their heads off, no seagulls squawking their...
A Monday Mocha Stout to usher in stout season. Perth (Ontario, not Australia)* may not be a big city but Perth Brewery is a brewing big time with some top notch brews and has already charted a few hits on the COM super suds hit parade. So let’s fire up the mocha stout...
Another K-Town Common, this time from Kamloops. Mining and the railroads combine with the scenery in this Southern BC town where everything is extra-ordinary, and nothing is common except this beer. Red Collar has me quaffing a Kamloops Common cold craft while...
COM1 - “Saturday. Let’s meet for lunch at “Pepperwood”* in Burlington.” COM 2- “Peckerwood!* That’s a terrible name for a restaurant”. COM1: “And bring your hearing aid with you.” COM2: “Ok, meet you at 8”. COM1: “Never mind, I’ll text you.” COM2: “A test?”...
Scottish word association time. Aye aye aye aye, I am the Scottish bandito.* “If you don’t eat yer meat you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat.?” I seem to remember that bit of Scottish verbiage from Pink Floyd’s school...
The Department of Morality always sees a likeness in any newborn. “Oh, he has his father’s eyes” or “doesn’t she look like Aunt Iris”. I just don’t get it. To me every baby looks like Winston Churchill, especially if they are filling their pampers (the baby, not...
Another offering from our a Swedish gypsy brewer Omnipollo* was my wing can for the bud’s season opener last night. Another Swede, Nylander,** contributed to an exciting win over the much hated Habs. But the hat trick hero of the night was Matthews who was shooting,...
After 149 ales, 37 ambers (love me an Amber), 29 draft, 218 IPAs, 197 lagers, 36 lite beers, 66 pale ales, 53 pilsners, 16 porters, 61 stouts, 15 wheat beers and 17 other assorted sours and saisons, sometimes you just want a beer. But not just any beer. How about a...