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Greetings from the Island, Wish You Were Beer

Greetings from the Island, Wish You Were Beer

Showtime! Jerrod’s Top 5, Rory’s winners and losers and the COMDB secrets to success. The Crownsmen pack more into a one hour show than anyone else could pack into a half hour show! And in what can only be described as the most uplifting part of the show, Jerrod told...

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New Age Bever-Age

New Age Bever-Age

Nudge but don’t bang, feel the ball, finesse those flippers. That’s not game theory, that’s fact derived from hundreds of quarters fed into Flash. But once Space Invaders, Asteroids, Galaga and Centipede and all those other 1980 “new age” games hit the bars, that was...

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Redemption

Redemption

Our last experience with Paulaner was an alcohol-free brew and let’s put it this way, the rating wasn’t much higher than the ABV. * So this is their opportunity for COMDB redemption. We figured the German brewer has been at it since 1634 so by now I think they should...

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A Double Exposure Exposé

A Double Exposure Exposé

I’m doing double duty tonight with some big numbers from Cowbell. At 8% and 55IBU this is every bit a double in more ways than one, as in two, which I guess is what you would expect from a double, isn’t it? Thank goodness it’s not a daily double, that would be double...

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The Wait is Over

The Wait is Over

No reservation, no problem. A spur of the moment dinner out with the Missus and one of her favourites is The Grist. Some breweries have restaurants. The Grist is a restaurant that has a brewery, and a pretty good one from my past samplings. Quickly seated and settled...

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A Family Friendly Frontibus

A Family Friendly Frontibus

My favourite sister-in-law has me singing “We Are Family”. * You know the song, “We are family, my sister-in-law got beer for me.” If you have a sister-in-law that brought you beer you can sing along with me. Perhaps more explanation is needed. Consider this texting...

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Fat Kid on the Seesaw Bitters

Fat Kid on the Seesaw Bitters

Another edition of Glorious and Free, * this one from where it all started, Dominion City. This brouhaha of a brew that has a bucktooth boxing beaver donning the gloves is a cross Canada crafters collaboration celebrating our still and forever glorious and free...

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Corn and Sugar and a Beer that Tastes Like Beer

Corn and Sugar and a Beer that Tastes Like Beer

Lights, Camera, Action, it’s The Crownsmen Show, brought to you by Cranky Old Men Drinking Beer. I joined Jerrod and Gaudy, but for this show we were missing Rory! Well, missing is probably too strong a word, let’s just say Rory wasn’t there. Although Rory’s financial...

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On The Lam Wasn’t Hard to Find, or Drink

On The Lam Wasn’t Hard to Find, or Drink

Reo Speedwagon told us that if you take it on the run then they don’t want you around.* My guess is if you are on the run then you are already not around, problem solved. This brew is On The Lam, and we aren’t talking mint jelly here. On the lam, as in high tail and...

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Another Peachy Poolside Pint

Another Peachy Poolside Pint

Not my first peachy pint, in fact, not my first peachy poolside pint. Come to think of it, not my first sneaky pint either. * Lake of Woods warns us, they call this alliterative ale “deliciously delectable and deceivingly drinkable”.  They also advise us not to...

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