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Festing with the Best

Festing with the Best

Kicking off COMDB Muskoka Oktober festing weekend with a visit to Clear Lake. Six Cranky Old Men, five festers ordering draft, and one ab-stoner who did not go unnoticed by the very accommodating bar staff. “Will you be having a beverage with your meal” was a...

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I Got It In Me

I Got It In Me

Get It In Y’a Ohh Yeahh! The rallying cry of colonoscopy techs everywhere. If you are an old man better heed the words of Larry the Cable Guy and just git er done. During my last procedure, the young tech said he decided to have the procedure done himself just to see...

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Steel Cut ?

Steel Cut ?

Picture a congregation of cranky old men discussing the merits of steel cut versus packaged oatmeal, with each statement receiving a knowing nod of approval from the other cranky old men. The centuries of life experience in the room focused on healthy breakfast fare....

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Cranky Committee Members in Waiting

Cranky Committee Members in Waiting

Get this! The Society of Beer Drinking Ladies has an inclusivity committee but I didn’t see any men on the committee. What’s that all about? Here at Cranky Old Men Drinking Beer we have made it clear that you don’t have to be old, cranky or male to submit a review....

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Plan B is for Beer

Plan B is for Beer

Old Robbie Burns told us that the best laid plans of Cranky Old Men often go awry. * For example, let’s take this year’s Muskoka Oktoberfest gathering of the COM. A battle of the Festbiers was in the offing for a quaffing with an impressive lineup of Oktoberfest...

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Ring and Post Toast

Ring and Post Toast

My first thought was ring and post was a modern-day wedding engagement announcement. Beyoncé tells us there is no bootylicious until you put a ring on it.*  However, once again I have made an incorrect assumption and gone off on a bit of a tangent. It appears this...

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A Last Light Last Night

A Last Light Last Night

I’ve been out on the lake many times at last light, line in the water, coaxing those fat-basstards to take hook line and sinker so I can wet the net. No surf boats making waves, no old hounds on dock or shore barking their heads off, no seagulls squawking their...

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Monday Mocha

Monday Mocha

A Monday Mocha Stout to usher in stout season. Perth (Ontario, not Australia)* may not be a big city but Perth Brewery is a brewing big time with some top notch brews and has already charted a few hits on the COM super suds hit parade. So let’s fire up the mocha stout...

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Common Sense*

Common Sense*

Another K-Town Common, this time from Kamloops. Mining and the railroads combine with the scenery in this Southern BC town where everything is extra-ordinary, and nothing is common except this beer. Red Collar has me quaffing a Kamloops Common cold craft while...

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That’s Pepperwood, Not Peckerwood

That’s Pepperwood, Not Peckerwood

COM1 - “Saturday. Let’s meet for lunch at “Pepperwood”* in Burlington.” COM 2- “Peckerwood!* That’s a terrible name for a restaurant”. COM1: “And bring your hearing aid with you.” COM2:  “Ok, meet you at 8”. COM1: “Never mind, I’ll text you.” COM2: “A test?”...

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