282 Reviews
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...
Curious Young Canadian: Hey old Scotsman what’s worn under your kilt? Cranky Old Scotsman: It’s all well-worn but it’s not worn out yet. With heaping helpings of heather and haggis inspired toffee as Scottish as Robbie Burns riding the Loch Ness Monster, this Lock...
RA: Now that I have figured out how to use the camera on my phone I guess I am supposed to do a review. I like it. Editor: Camera shy beer? How much do you like it? RA: 17 Editor: I will do my best to edit this verbose review and see if I can trim it down to a...
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?”...
Telling the tail of a cream ale. A congregation of cranky old craft connoisseurs met at Ontario’s oldest brew pub,* the Kingston Brewing Co. A meeting of the minds with Farmer Steve and RA in attendance. We focused on the house offerings, although there were no “on...
Do you think it’s cultural appropriation when Americans talk hockey? Me too. Big Deal is a supposedly a NY brewery, but in this case the one doing the talking is Canadian. Former Penguin/Coyote Paul Bisonnette is part of the Spittin’ Chiclets* podcast and apparently...
A Sawdust City special in the magical Muskoka moonlight. Fat Dog is not a tribute to a portly pup or a hefty hound but is in reference to the Fat Dog 120, a 124 mile long ultra marathon in South Western BC. This brew is to support Sawdust’s buddy David who ran the...
Coming into Kam-loops and the cabbie, commenting on the recent wildfires, says to me “no more smoke in town” as we drive by a Cannabis store on every corner.* Alanis would call that ironic, whether it was or not.** The “Loops” is a mining and railroad town, and also...
Just the thought of delirium tremens had me shaking. And the pink elephant on the bottle is not a reference to Sarah Palin or other female Republicans, but is of course all about the idiom “seeing pink elephants”* or hallucinating from extreme over-indulgence. I have...
An Arctic apple ale from Anchorage Alaska. An alliteration in pseudo cider, how do you like them apples? My favourite son dropped off this brew that a co-worker had brought back from the Broken Tooth brewers way up in sunny Anchorage. In 1867 Seward brokered a deal to...