504 Reviews
Is it the ghost of Black Sox left fielder Shoeless Joe Jackson roaming the cornfield? The whispering apparition telling the LF gang “If you brew it they will come.” Is this brew their Left Field of dreams?* Or maybe Ghost Runner is a spirited sprint of some sort? Or...
Freud told us that “the dream is the disguised fulfillment of a repressed desire”. But there is nothing disguised or repressed about my desire to quaff this frosty cold brew while on the BBQ deck searing and scorching steaks as summer slip slides into fall. I wonder...
Trois Lacs out of Montréal has brewed a bonne fête bière for la Famille Viau on their 50th anniversary in business. Coincidentally, myself and the Department of Ultimate Patience and Virtue (the missus) have our 40th anniversary today. Sounds like it’s bonne fêtes all...
When it comes to beer, here at COMDB we look for excellence in brewing. Our Editor on the other hand looks for excellence in spelling, specifically when spelling the word “excellence” correctly. “Athletic Excellance”?* I guess Daft doesn’t consider a spelling bee to...
Flower power, the rallying cry of hippies everywhere in the 60’s. A floral fixation perhaps? It won’t be long until all those hippies are pushing up daisies. Meanwhile the only advice we boomers have for the whining wet behind the ears Gen Z’s is “suck it up...
Something in the Water got the name for this beer from Hulvey’s song “Poor Party”. Hulvey tells us that “all my life I wanted to be rich” but The Beatles warned us that no matter how rich you are you can’t buy love. Halsey (no relation to Hulvey) laments that if she...
My first thought was what is a Cryo IPA? Are the hops cryogenically frozen like Walt Disney’s head? Upon further research the answer is yes and no. Yes, in that Cryo hops are cryogenically frozen to separate the flavor producing part of the hop from the rest of the...
You’ve got the Arizona Cardinals and the St. Louis Cardinals. The Blue Jays, the Ravens, the Falcons, the Seahawks and the Eagles. Then there are the Hawks and the Orioles. And not just the ducks, the Mighty Ducks, and if you want to put a bird on ice make it a...
I've heard the expression "it's not rocket science " too many times* to explain something I really don't understand, to make me wonder what really is rocket science. It turns out that rocket science is the specialized field of aerospace engineering concerned with the...
Although the Beach Ball Body™ Fitness Program does maintain a certain body weight conducive to my lifestyle, if you’re not careful the old cholesterol reading can climb the charts like a new Taylor Swift track. Low cal dip and low salt chips certainly help the cause,...