1773 Reviews
Holman’s description sounded great. “Golden toffee aroma, grainy malt flavours, and a dark chocolatey finish.” In fact it sounded almost too good to be true, like those ads on TV. And me, a self-confessed amber lover, well I wasn’t over the moon in anticipation of...
I remember working the night shift back in the day. Blackout blind on the window, do not disturb sign on the door. Eleven o’clock alarm clock. A thermos of Joe to go. No big bosses around to boss you around. It wasn’t bad once you got used to it. But 6 months of...
This hair of the dog looks dark, dank and dangerous. The Kame & Kettle crew make it clear that this is no run of the mill dark lager, but is in fact a black ale. They tell us “one sip and you’ll be wagging your tail”. I don’t know about all that tail wagging...
Out of Left Field and into my glass, one Bird Watcher. Our baseball crazy brewer is obviously referring to a major league baseball team. Of the 30 teams in the major leagues only three of them have gone to the birds. The Orioles, the Cardinals, and the Blue Jays are...
Dobie Gray just wanted to drift away. Clint was on the high plains drifting. And Bow Wow was doing the Tokyo drift. In case you aren’t familiar with Bow Wow perhaps you know him from his original stage name, Lil’ Bow Wow.* Back here in the COMDB land of semi-reality I...
After two mediocre tastings a California Common sounded like a sound bet. And The Ol’ 39 sounded just fine, a Kame & Kettle special tribute to the local volunteer firefighters. Formerly called Schteam, referring of course to the original Cali Common steam beers....
Repackaged and in for a new review. Let’s see if this 5 O’Clock shadow grows on me. With the time change it just so happens that 5 O’Clock comes earlier now.* Unfortunately for me, or perhaps this review, that one hour we lost was the hour I had planned not to be...
I saw Grace Potter and the Nocturnals in concert in Orlando many years ago. It was in a small venue where you bought a beer and stood in the pit. It held maybe 400 people tops. Great band, high energy, and Potter has the “Voice”. Why am I rambling on about Grace...
According to a preeminent American academic journal,* you can build a bigger brain by increasing your vocabulary. At COMDB we are always looking for ways to get smarter, so welcome to a new COMDB feature “It Pays to Increase Your Word Power”, Our word of the day is...
Maybe the Dinghy Dock? Or perhaps the Black Bear? Could be Carlos O’Bryan’s or even Jinglepot. I’m not sure what bar in Nanaimo they are referring to but I’m 4,435 kms away from any one of them so it’s a moot point. Popping the top on this extra tall boy to watch the...