1769 Reviews
After a challenging brew or two, a Christmas doublebock shock to the system, and an uncharacteristic SC IPA, I thought it was time to play it safe and get back to basics with a righteous red. Playing it safe never made anyone a winner but I'm sure it prevented quite a...
After a somewhat stressful Christmas Day tasting, which left me thankful Christmas Day beers only come once a year, it was time for a Boxing Day special. You can usually count on Sawdust City for a super suds sampling so I thought a Fall flashback, their Autumn IPA,...
The grandkids had decided long ago that Santa wasn’t real, and yet the presents from himself the once a year elf kept coming. So, they were debating whether Santa Claus was me or Grandma. Since Santa is a jolly old man with a beard, and I am a cranky old man drinking...
What are the three scariest words for a COM on Christmas Eve? Sure, “No beer left” is pretty scary but if you’ve seen my beer fridge, you’d know it’s a totally hypothetical situation. Then there is “Family movie time”, sitting through Elf or Home Alone for the...
It’s Christmas Eve eve. No that’s not a holiday greeting in the Garden of Eden, but a redundant day before Christmas eve moniker.* Beli-eve Eve? It also seems like an ideal eve for a chocolate stout, because after all what Cranky Old Christmas countdown would be...
Just like all pilsners are lagers but not all lagers are pilsners, so to are all clementines tangerines but not all tangerines are clementines. * As far as a Christmas stocking full of clementines goes, I don’t have any childhood memories of such a fruitful sock...
Last call rings, can you hear? At the bar, for one more beer. A beautiful sight, we’re happy tonight, drinking in a Winter Ale wonderland. * Ever since I first quaffed one of their brews I’ve been an Anderson farm fresh fan. But, and this is a Cardi B size butt, **...
He’s back! Yes, this brew is an official recommendation from Bud, the Elf on the Beer Shelf. And we all know what that means. It’s the start of the Cranky Old Christmas Countdown. Bud is sweet on sweets so he usually goes for the loco cocoa brews but it looks like he...
Grolsch, the famous Dutch brewer based in The Netherlands. I wonder which city, town, village or hamlet (Hamlet was Dutch wasn’t he?)* this European brew is brewed in? Perhaps Zundert, the home of Van Gogh? Or Amsterdam, with its colorful districts lit in red and its...
After a visit to the Bobby Orr Hockey Hall of Fame in Parry Sound, I stopped in on the Hole in the Wall gang,* those fine folks at Trestle. Why the name trestle you ask. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. As for the Orr hockey hall, some great memorabilia and...