1772 Reviews
Just like the Grinch, this acronym had me puzzling till my puzzler was sore. Or is it an acronym at all? C.R.E.A.M. Craft Reaches Excellence in Achieving Maltiness. Catch the Riptide Eventually After Midnight. Cream Recipe Entices All Men. All of these are more of a...
Juicy Fruit, sounds delicious. Just like the gum only with alcohol. Chew on that! And from the great team at Brock Street no less, the self-proclaimed most refreshing street in Canada. Sounds like a can’t miss winner. Unfortunately no chicken dinner tonight. My...
Cranky old men wearing spandex?* That’s a bit of a stretch. Time for some more armchair athlete antics from the Refined Fool summer beer league. This time from the pint pouring peloton as we follow Queen’s advice and get on our bikes and ride.** When you envision a...
Publican House tells us that “finding a broken record in your collection is never fun.” What I hoped would be fun was finding a Broken Record Porter in my beer fridge collection. One can hope. My record collection has Aerosmith to Zappa, Styx and Stones, the White...
From downtown Toronto to the shipyards of Vancouver, I’m on the East to West armchair express. Sampling this West Coast brew called East of the Sun from North Point breweries and with no sense of direction this review is going South pretty quick. But the name of this...
I wasn’t exactly a cool kid. I think in high school I was voted most likely to be a beer reviewer. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get to visit some of the coolest bars around and downtown Toronto has their fair share. For great selection it’s Beertown. If you want an...
Water on the water, beer on the pier. Pier pressure or just good advice? * Time to lock and roll with Port Dalhousie’s Lock Street and fill it up to the brim to win with Brimstone brewery. But a beer named Pier Pressure could be a Pilsner from Coast, or a Kolsch from...
I remember meeting Daryl Sittler in the mid-90’s. His business card simply said “Daryl Sittler; Businessman”. We had just taken our company public and he was a board member. When we met he said “So you’re the cashflow part of the business” because my part of the...
I’ve visited a few farms in my day and let me tell you, the early to bed early to rise lifestyle, coupled with a hearty heap of hard work, is not for me. Milking the bulls, fertilizing the fields, harvesting the hay, shearing the cows, it’s just too much work.* But...
Endless summer, Brian Wilson * wouldn't even have got out of bed for it but I'm all in, as in soaking in the great Muskoka outdoors and soaking up some Muskoka summer suds. I usually prefer wheat in my cereal, and only dabble in the straw once in a Blue Moon, but...