122 Reviews
Riddle me this: If one of my dog's legs is a tail, how many legs has he got? The answer, he still has 4 of course. Saying a dog's leg is a tail doesn't make it so. In his Brew-Ha-Ha! blog about Alexander Keith’s IPA Don Redmond asks the very valid question what makes...
After a visit to the Bobby Orr Hockey Hall of Fame in Parry Sound, I stopped in on the Hole in the Wall gang,* those fine folks at Trestle. Why the name trestle you ask. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. As for the Orr hockey hall, some great memorabilia and...
A COMDB site visit to Decew Falls (the brewery not the nature walk), and a sight for thirsty eyes it was. In addition to their standard fare, there was a Draft Pick Porter on tap, which turned out to be my first round draft pick. Some people think about what adult...
A French beer with a German name seems odd to me.* Why? Just in case you skipped history class that day, in the previous century the two countries had some relationship issues. I think they saw a counselor, or maybe that was a Chancellor? "De l'eau a coulé sous les...
Whenever I watch the evolution of a nitro in my glass I think beer pouring could well be a spectator sport. A nitro stout fade to black is magic in the spirits world, the inverse of Metallica’s take on the subject. * So it was with these mountain high hopes that I...
My choice was clear, as in Clear Lake, for a clear beer and a big ol’ pretzel. What’s new at the home of the largest beer spa in the world? Monogrammed terrycloth towels perhaps, a slipstream dump bucket perchance, solar powered saunas parcheesi? I don’t know about...
Editor’s Comment: When we got a postcard “Wish you were beer” we knew our intrepid international man of mystery, JT, was on the road again. This trip finds him in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest has a myriad of must see spots including the stunning architecture of the...
A James Brown dance move, a starchy supper staple, and now a beer! * Once thought extinct by aleontologists, the rarely brewed and not oft quaffed potato lager is ready for a big-time comeback courtesy of Sawdust City. The COMDB translation department quickly told us...
Poco? Odd name for a beer. A tribute to a 70’s soft rock country band perhaps? An acronym of some sort, Pints of Crafty Origins? A short form name for John Smith’s saving grace? * None of these really seemed to make sense. Whatever Breakwall from POrt COlborne had in...
COMDB Safety Share! When exiting a cab at 147 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, Canada (The Danforth Music Hall) to see Cristone “Kingfish” Ingram, be aware that you are actually exiting not onto the sidewalk but directly into a bike lane where it is quite possible that some...