422 Reviews
Having a dinner with some civil engineers, looks like the menu is jumbo shrimp with a dark lite. Since these oxymorons are all old news. any enthusiasm for them is usually found missing, and all we end up with is intense apathy followed by a deafening silence. Maybe...
Waiter: Would you care for drinks. Me: What do you have on tap. Waiter: A light beer, an amber, and a black lager, Sir. Me to Myself: (I love me an amber.) Me: What brewer? Waiter: Blackburn Sir, a local brewhouse. Me: (Having sampled Blackburn’s amber before) I’ll...
I’m usually a craft brew connoisseur but if one beer had to be the dark horse of this Newfoundland tour, it made sense that the brew would be Black Horse. Not a craft at all, but a Molson Coors brew which is apparently brewed only in Newfoundland and Labrador, which...
It seemed like the right night for a night light, a bright idea if I say so myself. How about one of the Canadian vernacular. That’s right, it’s Light, Eh! from our Kingsville connection, they say their beers are for those who wander. Does a wandering mind count? I...
I’m a patron of Matron, a connoisseurer of the brewer. A dark with class, is in my glass, signed and sealed from Bloomfield. Yes, from the blooming and booming metropolis of Bloomfield, Prince Edward County. Not to be confused with Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island,...
Another giant Asian brewery yields one chilly Tsingtao, direct from China to my beer fridge. I’ve been to China a few times, walked the Great Wall, bought some souvenirs at the little shop at the gate, I think it was called Wall Mart. The scroll in the pic is a gift I...
Johnny Depp used to love an Amber, in case you hadn’t Heard. But the verdict is in and Amber is no longer Johnny’s favourite.* As for myself, I still love me an amber. Could be the subtle sweetness of caramel, or the smooth and steady malt. But I’ve come to realize...
Cranky Old Men are in the house once again at the annual CIM mining Convention, soaking in the Vancouver sun and wrap tapping the Mining Now show with Jerrod and Rory. Back in the day these conferences were all about drinking triples, seeing double and acting single....
“Una Más” required a frantic reach out to the COMDB translation department. With their trademark disdain to all of us who are unilingual, they informed me that “the obvious translation is “one more”. I told them, “but I’m a one and done kinda guy”. “Una y Listo? Ese...
Lots of signs up in the beer store about this new brew, Madrí, A beer from Madrid at my local Beer Store, that's exceptional! I picture Don Quixote tilting at windmills while I’m titling a frosty brewski.* I make a Spanish inquisition to the friendly and helpful Beer...