IPA

I always appreciate a little wordsmithing so when this Karmageddon brew caught my eye I did a double take. I fancy myself a bit of a smith of the words as well so I got to thinking while I was drinking.* How about Pharmageddon, which is when the missus goes to the...

  Square meals, good idea. Square deals, good idea. Square wheels, bad idea. Unless it's an IPA from the Town team. Another Town going down, this time their signature IPA, a big deal wheel. It’s a one and done night so no matter how this tasting turns out,* there...

As a hard-working beer reviewer, I had an immediate affinity to this brew. Working hard is right.* Nose to the grindstone to meet the daily brew review deadline. Banging my head against the writer’s block wall, with fingers worn to the bone with writer’s cramp.  Lost...

Lake effect for me is a cold front of a frosty brew after a lazy line in the lake evening.  But any meteorologist worth their weight in road salt will tell you lake effect is what buries Buffalo in three feet of snow at a time. Apparently GLB was inspired not by a...

Here I am watching hockey and drinking a Centre Cut #3 baseball brew from our friends out in Left Field. I appreciate the Canadian spelling of the word centre, even though my spell check doesn’t, must be American software, Eh. Speaking of American, I’m watching the...

What we have here is a rough tough buff marsupial kickin’ ass with those oversized flipper feet of his. That’s right, it’s a kung fu Kungaroo heralding from the land downunder we assume. By the way, Australia is the only country that's also a continent. Coincidentally...

Another trip round the sun and none the wiser for it. I guess making it through a year like this is cause enough for celebration. Not that I need much of a cause to snap the cap on a Merchant Ale House big bottle brew. Jacked & Juicy sounds like another Jack Black...

Time for another West Side Story, but this time it’s Lower West Side and instead of the Jets and the Sharks it’s a far less dramatic and not at all musical brew review. * Let’s see if this one has a happy ending. But this isn’t big apple westside, it’s little apple...

What the hell is a two pad stack you may be wondering. Maybe a breakfast double helping at IHOP? Or your favourite Thai dish? Perhaps it’s the cosmetic surgeon’s “Dolly Parton” special.* If you’re contemplating these and other possible explanations you’re wrong and...

Here at COMDB we have enjoyed the art of the craft collectively with 12 different CA brews. Next to their dark and dangerous Origins of Darkness Imperial Stout which we survived, at 10.2% this is their highest ABV work of art to date that we have appraised. The can...