423 Reviews
For those of you like myself* who are unfamiliar with Haw, I went straight to the world wide web to do my research on the Hawthorn berry. What the web tells me is this little red fruit can lower blood pressure and cholesterol, reduce inflammation, improve skin health,...
Maybe Okoberfest and baseball season are both over, but that doesn’t stop us from sampling a Left Field Festbier, now does it. And so, the festing continues. As for baseball, anyone around in the 70’s knows that Mr. October is none other than Reggie Jackson, who was...
Dark Lager? Sounds like COMDB to the rescue with some entertaining names for this aptly but unimaginatively named brew. How about “Drinking with Springsteen on the Edge of Town” or maybe “Dancing with a Dark”. * Or a classic reference, “A Beer After Conrad’s Own...
When it comes to German, the only words I learned in my youth were from Hogan’s Heroes. In other words “I know nothing, nothing!”* That’s one reason why the COMDB translation department gets so much work around Oktoberfest time. However, in this case Sawdust City has...
The Jackson 5 took us back to basics, teaching us our ABCs and 123’s. Of course, MJ was too young to be having a beer in those days,* let alone hooking up with the girl he’s singing to, but no one seemed to notice back in those “innocent’ times. A 12 year old singing...
Out of Left Field and into my glass, one Bird Watcher. Our baseball crazy brewer is obviously referring to a major league baseball team. Of the 30 teams in the major leagues only three of them have gone to the birds. The Orioles, the Cardinals, and the Blue Jays are...
After two mediocre tastings a California Common sounded like a sound bet. And The Ol’ 39 sounded just fine, a Kame & Kettle special tribute to the local volunteer firefighters. Formerly called Schteam, referring of course to the original Cali Common steam beers....
I saw this German Pil in the beer fridge, leftovers from Oktoberfest I assume. Got my pilsner glass out of the freezer and was ready to pour when something caught my eye. It was the letter “H”. The beer is a Phil, not a Pil. What the “H” E double hockey sticks is that...
Stockyards is batting 1000 in the super suds ratings with us COM, so when I saw a festbier from them, a Kitchner based brewer no less, I thought it could be a tasty Oktoberfester. Unfortunately it’s November, and Oktoberfest is over and although not a distant memory...
We have had no shortage of beers with bears to deal with. There was a bear on the run, bear hugs and huggy bears, bear wrestlers, bearded bears (aren’t they all), ominous omnivores, boxing bruins and hibernating grizzlies. The most spectacular bird feeder in the world...