You’ve got your to-do list, in our house known as directives from the Department of Morality. There are shopping lists, laundry lists, and the proverbial bucket list. Lots of Top ten lists, or top 5 lists for those in a hurry. There is an app called List. Real-estate listings. There is the things to do list when you visit one of the places on the places you have to go before you die list. This is turning into a list of lists! And if you don’t have a list, you may feel listless.
If you have a lisp you may call a lisp a list, or you may call a list a lisp. Lots of people want to be on the A-List, but whatever list you have or are on or can’t pronounce, without a doubt you don’t want to be on the blacklist. Unless of course it is a dark German lager from The Napanee Beer Company.
Banned Books: The COMDB Reading List
The funny thing about blacklists, is they are snapshots of a specific time, culture and society. The list of blacklisted books and music today sounds like a list of the classics. Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms”. Beatles songs? Charlotte’s Web, that beloved children’s book.* Today we will judge whether this beer is on the COMDB blacklist or is already a classic.
Leonard Cohen tells us we want it darker,** but it doesn’t get any darker than this. More effervescent than most darks, it put forth a slim bubbly froth, anagrams be damned. A roasted malt with a cocoa sweet aroma. A full roasted malt flavour with a touch of fizz to make for a lighter mouthfeel than most darks. It has a subtle sweet cocoa finish. No hops, no bitters, a smooth easy dark. The fizz is slight but it sticks and stays, the sweet stays the course too. Roasted malt but not to a fault. There might be a touch too much flavour for a dark beer rookie but this a dark lager lover’s dark. Certainly a classic. One list this will make is the COMDB super suds list.
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