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We Are Playing Duck Duck Joose and This Beer Is It

We Are Playing Duck Duck Joose and This Beer Is It

Like Pass-Out or Strip Poker, Duck Duck Joose is not a game for kids.* What it is is some semi-serious suds from Kame & Kettle. We have had ducks visit the most spectacular bird feeder in the world, and we have flown with Double Ducks in our day. Not to limit...

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New Age Bever-Age

New Age Bever-Age

Nudge but don’t bang, feel the ball, finesse those flippers. That’s not game theory, that’s fact derived from hundreds of quarters fed into Flash. But once Space Invaders, Asteroids, Galaga and Centipede and all those other 1980 “new age” games hit the bars, that was...

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A Double Exposure Exposé

A Double Exposure Exposé

I’m doing double duty tonight with some big numbers from Cowbell. At 8% and 55IBU this is every bit a double in more ways than one, as in two, which I guess is what you would expect from a double, isn’t it? Thank goodness it’s not a daily double, that would be double...

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Fat Kid on the Seesaw Bitters

Fat Kid on the Seesaw Bitters

Another edition of Glorious and Free, * this one from where it all started, Dominion City. This brouhaha of a brew that has a bucktooth boxing beaver donning the gloves is a cross Canada crafters collaboration celebrating our still and forever glorious and free...

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On The Lam Wasn’t Hard to Find, or Drink

On The Lam Wasn’t Hard to Find, or Drink

Reo Speedwagon told us that if you take it on the run then they don’t want you around.* My guess is if you are on the run then you are already not around, problem solved. This brew is On The Lam, and we aren’t talking mint jelly here. On the lam, as in high tail and...

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Cheetah Riding with Friends

Cheetah Riding with Friends

Facebook says you can’t have more than 5000 friends.* Dunbar says your brain can handle around 150 of them. But Dunbar defined a friend as someone “you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you happened to bump into them in a bar.”  As far...

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Making Friends

Making Friends

Editor’s Comment : Our Ottawa based connoisseur du crafts, JF, weighs in on this friendly Belgian beauty. Being a bit of old time stubby lover (we are talking about beer here), this one caught my eye. I’ve had a few Belgians in my day, but for sure this was my first...

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River Wave

River Wave

White faced monster? Are they referring to the steep, narrow and rocky Couloir Extreme at Whistler? Perhaps it is the 108-foot-high Tsunami of a wave that Alo Slebir surfed late last year at Maverick’s? * No again. Apparently, the name is inspired by what they call a...

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Left Field Crushed It

Left Field Crushed It

How about those Blue Jays, first in the major league standings. Not only are they on the ball this year, they’re all over it. Bam Bam Barger’s big bat and Bo Bichette’s daily double. Every now and then a Springer dinger, and then there’s Vlad, who’s not doing half...

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