418 Reviews
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...
Kicking off COMDB Muskoka Oktober festing weekend with a visit to Clear Lake. Six Cranky Old Men, five festers ordering draft, and one ab-stoner who did not go unnoticed by the very accommodating bar staff. “Will you be having a beverage with your meal” was a...
Get this! The Society of Beer Drinking Ladies has an inclusivity committee but I didn’t see any men on the committee. What’s that all about? Here at Cranky Old Men Drinking Beer we have made it clear that you don’t have to be old, cranky or male to submit a review....
Old Robbie Burns told us that the best laid plans of Cranky Old Men often go awry. * For example, let’s take this year’s Muskoka Oktoberfest gathering of the COM. A battle of the Festbiers was in the offing for a quaffing with an impressive lineup of Oktoberfest...
I’ve been out on the lake many times at last light, line in the water, coaxing those fat-basstards to take hook line and sinker so I can wet the net. No surf boats making waves, no old hounds on dock or shore barking their heads off, no seagulls squawking their...
Another K-Town Common, this time from Kamloops. Mining and the railroads combine with the scenery in this Southern BC town where everything is extra-ordinary, and nothing is common except this beer. Red Collar has me quaffing a Kamloops Common cold craft while...