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Sweet and Smoky? KISS Please

Sweet and Smoky? KISS Please

I’ve had browns nuttier than a flat earther, smoky suds smokier than a five alarm fire, and honey lagers sweeter than Saccharin.* When it comes to flavoured brews I’m an avid advocate of the KISS principle (keep it subtle sudsmaster). A smoked honey brown sounds like...

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Another Two Loons

Another Two Loons

For all you amateur ornithologists out there, yes there is such a thing as a Pacific Loon, which not coincidentally is a West coast diver, although not unlike another West Coast group, the Beach Boys, it gets around. * This is our second Two Loons, the first being Two...

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Border Town Brewski

Border Town Brewski

The Department of Corrections sentenced me to some hard labour in the back 10 (I can’t afford a back 40 like Farmer Steve has) and when I was done I was thirstier than a Sonoran desert ditch digger.  I reached for the first brew from the lager section of the beer...

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Juiciest

Juiciest

On the farm everything is pretty down to earth. * You don’t give your livestock pretty names, a gelding is a gelding, no dickin’ around. So, it’s no surprise that the Anderson clan down on the homestead have some straightforward brew names. There was their cream ale,...

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A Near North Star

A Near North Star

The word North is like the word Mother-in-law. No, not icy and cold, what I mean is it’s a relative term. If you live in the US of Eh, then Canada is the Great White North. 80% of Canadians would call anything North of Winnipeg the boondocks. * I’ve worked in the...

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Don’t Miss the Train

Don’t Miss the Train

21 Pilots tell us that they aren’t just graffiti on a passing train, but this beer is. I tried to listen to the song from the beer can, * but the damn singer talks so fast I couldn’t get an ear in edge wise. I guess it’s one of them modern new-fangled hip-hop rap...

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Tahiti Wheat Treat

Tahiti Wheat Treat

After doing some research I have determined that the moon one sees when in Tahiti is exactly the same moon I see from my backyard. The difference depends on the different vantage point on the Earth, and the number of rum drinks that you’ve had on the beach that day. *...

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Godspeed Attained

Godspeed Attained

COMDB Safety Share! When exiting a cab at 147 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, Canada (The Danforth Music Hall) to see Cristone “Kingfish” Ingram, be aware that you are actually  exiting not onto the sidewalk but directly into a bike lane where it is quite possible that some...

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Augusta in October

Augusta in October

The name Augusta may hold special significance to you if you’re a golfer or a Roman Empress. * For anyone that has golfed with me it is quite clear I am not the former. And I have never cross dressed at a Toga party so that eliminates the latter. But if you are from...

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Loch and Loaded

Loch and Loaded

From a teeter totter to hop scotch, * but it’s not all fun and games at COMDB. It’s time for some serious Scottish suds sampling as we make an armchair journey from the Great Lakes to one of the great lochs, Loch Lomond. We’ve had the pleasure of pouring and scoring a...

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