123 Reviews
I think I know what a stone fruit * is but what the hell is a kickflip?** Peach tends to be my stone fruit of choice, as for kickflips, this NEIPA from Clear Lake is my kickflip of choice, seeing as I am not sure what one is so this is the only one I am familiar with....
These days Après Ski for me is hot coffee and liniment, but back in the day we knew how to Après. However, this is no post alpine pint, I am just out and about in the little smoke, that being Sudbury, and it isn’t Saturday night. The home of stacks and Stack, so it...
A visit to the nearest largest beer spa in the world meant a bite to eat at Clear Lake Brewery with an extra pale ale accompaniment. Great service and friendly staff as always. I was looking for something on tap I hadn’t tried before and sure enough I ordered a...
The COM contingent are at the Clear Lake Brewery during Muskoka Oktoberfest for a bite and a brew and it’s as busy as the opposing goalie on a Leaf’s powerplay*. The CL team are doing a great job. How can you tell when you have a dedicated employee? A visible and...
Lunch at Clear Lake Brewery with the COM in training, that would be my son. Nice setup at Clear Lake for lunch, picnic tables and good food with a frosty brew. A pet friendly spot outdoors so a number of man’s best friends were in attendance although I must admit they...
Out to lunch* with my much better half (as I am regularly reminded) and procuring a pint of Portside Pilsner portside seemed to make all kinds of sense. Portside as in Port Dalhousie. Of course, I pronounced it “Dal – how-sie” as in the Halifax University but the...
At the casino in town which is the local hangout for cranky old men and women intent on losing their kid's inheritance. I actually think there was a counter there for cashing RRSPs. To give you an idea how old the crowd was I felt young there. So I am sampling a...
Straight from Carlow County Ireland to my glass. O’Hara’s even gives me quaffing instructions on the can. Chill, Pull, Pour, Pause, Enjoy. The pause is an important part of the experience because these nitro “draft” stouts use what they call widget technology so we...
We used to order trays of cheap draft (I think it used to be spelled draught) in a bar where the entertainment was the guy drunker than you were, and occasionally the entertainment was you. You ordered draft (or draught), a tray was as many glasses as could fit on the...
On the way to dinner with the family and the grandkids are bickering back and forth. They were driving me to drink and it wasn't a long drive*. We get to the restaurant and I ask the waiter what's local on draft and he says Wiseacre**, which immediately reminds of the...