1775 Reviews
On my armchair tour of Europe again, this time to the bonny old England, brilliant. There are lots of urban myths and legends about IPA’s but it is generally agreed that they originated from the UK. So I was looking forward to this IPA , “Crafted in the Heart of...
I’m not much for roughing it now, but back in the day we did some camp ground quaffing, resulting in a few cross-border escapades. Happy hour in A-Bay *when the Canadian dollar was still paper and worth as much as it’s US counterpart. Can crushing, bar hopping and...
What time is it? Game time! And whose playing in the final for winter’s favourite sport? Two of our favourite winter destinations, Florida and Vegas, of course. And once again the house wins. The hits and the referee’s glaucoma were the two main themes of the...
I remember a friend of mine from the UK quoting Winston Churchill who said “Soccer is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans, and rugby is a hooligan’s game played by gentlemen“. I was never quite sure exactly what that quote meant but it seemed fitting to open this...
First game of the cup final and it’s Vegas baby, and the house always wins. The Department of Morality has the AC cranked, and my basement lazy boy and big screen is in a deep freeze, so I have the faux fire blazing. Summertime hockey, so why not a by the fire...
Just like ol’ Robert Cray, I was warned about this suicide blonde, that her sweet’s gone sour.* Yes, the game was afoot**, this miss was amiss, this brew was askew. What the hell am I talking about you must be thinking.*** This innocent ale, so labelled as a blonde,...
Collingwood’s cross-eyed Clifford look-a-like canine, and a high-flying feline that appears to have been into the cat-nip, grace the can of this session IPA. Why, you may well ask? It so happens that this brew is supporting their local Humane Society. We could all use...
Is a Belgian wit a comedian from Brussels? I wish. Instead, it’s the dreaded wheat beer, not a COMDB favourite by any stretch of the taste buds. And not just any wheat, a Belgian one. But as I open my beer fridge, this beer of the month club offering is challenging me...
What’s so great about beer of the month club? Let me tell you. Beer. Another thing that is great about it is getting introduced to brewer’s like MacLean’s Ales, hailing and harkening from the half-hidden hamlet of Hanover.* They seem to be a month club staple and we...
When it comes to coffee, I like mine hotter than the hobs of hell, blistered lips be damned. Unless of course it is a coffee stout, then chill and swill is the plan. This isn’t a coffee stout though. It is a coffee dark mild, that being a dark English ale. Not just a...