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El Valle Salado con Limones

El Valle Salado con Limones

From the whale watching cove of Dildo Newfoundland to the cosmopolitan coast of Vancouver, this is a Canada day weekend coast to coast toast. And the two beers in question are not only at opposite ends of our great country, but worlds apart as well. A Newfoundland...

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Flower Power

Flower Power

Assuming that the word “Fiore” is Italian, this is an Italian Style Pilsner after all, I called in the COMDB translation department. They love Italian, the language of love they call it. Probably the only love they get around here. Me, I'm not that familiar with the...

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Good Karma

Good Karma

Good karma: provide the COM with free beer. Bad karma: refuse to breakdown a six pack for a single sampling (you know who you are).* My experience is most people practice neutral karma, that being do nothing and nothing happens good or bad. As far as this brew goes,...

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Copper Beech Craft

Copper Beech Craft

Copper Beech is not a waterfront penny arcade or a holiday destination for your local constable. It is an actual tree and once again the Decew Falls team are giving us a local history lesson. The beech tree* at Drummond Hill Cemetery is a memorial to the soldiers that...

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An Easy Going Not Quite Light but Quite Alright Lager

An Easy Going Not Quite Light but Quite Alright Lager

The Oilers' Cinderella story came to an abrupt end last night and it was no Disney ending. The Cup ends up South of the border once again, much to the chagrin of most Canadians.* All I can say is 2024-25 Go Leafs Go. In anticipation of a nerve-racking Stanley Cup...

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Extra Stout, Check It Out

Extra Stout, Check It Out

I saw this Guinness Extra Stout a few months ago and wanted to try it but they were only selling it in six packs. Unless I am fridge stocking I only buy singles because truth be told, if it’s the dregs I don’t have enough friends that I don’t like enough to foist 5...

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Another Colourful Fabric

Another Colourful Fabric

Bellwoods is offering up this paisley pint of the purple persuasion as a bookend brew to their Green Velvet in what I assume is their colorful fabric series of suds. I’m looking forward to their Plaid Pilsner and their Houndstooth Helles. Maybe a Leather & Lace...

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Quite Enjoying the Cold Shoulder

Quite Enjoying the Cold Shoulder

My first thought was that “shoulder season” was tank top weather. However from 40 years of intense training in the fine art of being corrected, it came as no surprise to me * that my first thought was indeed incorrect. It appears that “shoulder season” in tourism...

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Crushing It

Crushing It

The warm weather is back with a vengeance and that means crushing some picnic table pints, that's right, it's outdoor drinking season. I saw this new offering from Beau's Brewing and the Hazy IPA tag caught my eye. New England style IPAs are almost always delicious...

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Chute and Score

Chute and Score

If you thought that “the big chute” is a hunting safari for poor spellers, or Orr’s score for the Stanley Cup winner,*  you would be incorrect on both counts. The big chute marine railway is actually a rail lift** at lock 44 at Port Severn that transports boats on a ...

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