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Trick or Trill

Trick or Trill

Kicking off the Cranky Old trick or treat countdown with the alliterative craft collab combo of Bellwoods & Blood Brothers. I’m doubling down and downing a double with a Goblin’s Trill. Will it be the trill of victory or the agony of defeat? * Both brewers were...

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From Moxee with Moxie

From Moxee with Moxie

A beer from Moxee? No. A beer with moxie?* Maybe. A beer that is a shout out to the town of Moxee, in Washington State. Yes. 6 hours Southeast of Vancouver depending on the time it takes for the cross-border body cavity search, Officer Ben Dover presiding. Moxee is...

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A Parsons Pint Brew Review Turns One into Two

A Parsons Pint Brew Review Turns One into Two

Parsons. The name sounded familiar. I do have a couple of Alan Parsons Project LPs, and I have attended church when required to, but I never dated the Parsons daughter. * But I think I remember seeing a Parsons at one of the COMDB AGMs (Annual Golf Meeting) but it...

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The Not So Fine Line Between Hedonism and Masochism

The Not So Fine Line Between Hedonism and Masochism

Another defining moment in the history of COMDB. “Hedonism is the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life” and just like Dr. Dre and Ice-Cube, that’s straight outta Compton.* Meanwhile masochism is deriving pleasure from pain. Can a...

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Another Two Loons

Another Two Loons

For all you amateur ornithologists out there, yes there is such a thing as a Pacific Loon, which not coincidentally is a West coast diver, although not unlike another West Coast group, the Beach Boys, it gets around. * This is our second Two Loons, the first being Two...

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Juiciest

Juiciest

On the farm everything is pretty down to earth. * You don’t give your livestock pretty names, a gelding is a gelding, no dickin’ around. So, it’s no surprise that the Anderson clan down on the homestead have some straightforward brew names. There was their cream ale,...

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Don’t Miss the Train

Don’t Miss the Train

21 Pilots tell us that they aren’t just graffiti on a passing train, but this beer is. I tried to listen to the song from the beer can, * but the damn singer talks so fast I couldn’t get an ear in edge wise. I guess it’s one of them modern new-fangled hip-hop rap...

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Loch and Loaded

Loch and Loaded

From a teeter totter to hop scotch, * but it’s not all fun and games at COMDB. It’s time for some serious Scottish suds sampling as we make an armchair journey from the Great Lakes to one of the great lochs, Loch Lomond. We’ve had the pleasure of pouring and scoring a...

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Road Worthy

Road Worthy

Sal and Dean lived life large on the road. Wyatt and Billy’s cross border chopper hop started and ended on the road, literally. Anthony (Man) and Pedro were rollin’ on down the road, high times on the highway. And Otter and Boon’s response to their frat house demise...

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If You Brew It They Will Come

If You Brew It They Will Come

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...

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