493 Reviews
The Crownsmen thirsty Thursday crowd decided to do a why not Wednesday show, and who am I to say no. Although come to think of it I did say no a number of times on the previous show. In business when you hear “no” it often means “not now”, but when I say it on the...
The fine folks at Refined Fool Brewing set a great example for all of us, by not just presenting a problem but also offering a tenable solution. The problem statement, or in modern business vernacular “the challenge” is “How to pretend you’re a normal human family”....
Breaking news! Lake of Bays (Baysville) and Sawdust City (Gravenhurst) are merging, along with Merit Brewing (Hamilton) in what will become one of the top ten brewers in the province. OK, maybe not as exciting as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce secretly getting married...
We usually review craft brews although occasionally we have ventured onto the dark side. That being big box brewer brews. And although we find in general the beers of mass consumption often lacking, as the old saying goes, even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in...
Last night I checked the cottage beer fridge for an evening IPA, an end of a scorcher of a day refresher, and grabbed a Bavarian 8.6 IPA. Sounded like just the ticket, and the extra 27ml of international bonus beer is almost all times appreciated. My Editor is...
The Department of Morality calls the grand kids li’l angels. I wouldn’t go so far as to call them li’l heathens (like my Grandparents used to call us) but there are a couple of slightly tarnished halos in the mix. Maybe li’l rascals might be a reasonable compromise....
Kipling once said “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet”. * What Rudyard (how’s that for a first name, thanks Mom, thanks Dad) didn’t count on was a collaboration between cottage country Sawdust City and the ever macabre malters at Third Moon....
The Green Hit? That would be “Let’s Stay Together”, Al Green’s 1972 first and only #1 song. Or maybe it’s a hole at a COM 18-hole golf tourney, the one green hit in regulation? Upon closer inspection it appears that our church-based brewer are practicing Rastafarians,...
You’re a Cranky Old Captain assigned to fly that red eye from YYZ to YVR. * Riding in on the UP Express, you have a hankering for Henderson’s Best, an amber for the ages, and the aged. But no one wants a Foster Brooks ** at the wheel of their 747. What to do? How...
And the northern lights commenced to glow, And she said, with a tear in her eye Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow. * Not only was Frank Zappa awe struck by the northern lights, he also gave us some good advice. We shall heed his...