286 Reviews
An extra special bitter is an English style pale ale, trying to do the classic balancing act between malt sweet and hoppy bitterness. Here at COMDB we have quaffed a few ESB, and the genre in general has not been all that special in our eyes, or glasses. * The...
A tractor trailer full of fresh New Brunswick blueberries, haulin’ ass and guzzlin’ gas. Straight from The Pumphouse in Moncton to my beer fridge. A ton of blue fruit fun, for my one and done. * I’ve got a very merry brewberry Blueberry blonde to pour and score...
How about a glass of 10W30? * Sounds like a drunken dare from some redneck motorheads. A can of that bubblin’ crude that made Uncle Jed a millionaire, black gold, Texas tea. ** No, it’s just what Neustadt Springs has named their dark ale. I must admit, the name...
My favourite sister-in-law has me singing “We Are Family”. * You know the song, “We are family, my sister-in-law got beer for me.” If you have a sister-in-law that brought you beer you can sing along with me. Perhaps more explanation is needed. Consider this texting...
If I was rooting around in the attic and found some recipes from my great-great-grandfather, they would probably be for moose sausage or venison pie. But not John Sleeman. No, he finds all the Sleeman brewmaster recipes from the 1800’s, coincidentally just 50 years...
Poor little Rousse. Bastard love child of sweet Amber the bar maid and that ne’er do well Irish drifter Red. She was left to her own devices to grow up in the harsh wilderness of the great white North, to suffer the long cold winters of the Boréale.** But grow up she...
It’s Thursday, that means it’s time for another Cranky Old Crownsmen collaboration. As always, we discussed a myriad of current and important topics. Subject matter ranged from fashion faux pas,* to early signs of aging, then on to provocative truth telling, and...
I don’t play favourites, but if I did Sawdust City would be in play. What makes a brewer great, in my humble opinion? Great beer, obviously. The COMDB guide to beer tasting tells us to pick a beer based on a funny name, and SC does that up in sevens and spades....
Our thirsty Thursday was more like a freaky Friday. The day before Friday the 13th and this Crownsmen Show might as well have been the next day for all the luck we had. More technical issues than a ketamine fueled SpaceX launch, but thanks to our always on the ball...
This review will be short but not sweet. Last night I wished this concrete blonde was still in Hollywood instead of in my glass. * Believe me, I have nothing against non-alcoholic beverages…. that taste like they are supposed to. There is a time and a place for them....