422 Reviews
With the plethora of fake news these days, Bridgewater has hit on a topical title for their no booze brew, Fake Brews. I recall Mark Twain’s famous quote “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth puts its boots on.” Then I find out that’s a lie, it wasn’t...
Is this a diamond of a cherry baby, maybe? Or should we runaway from this cherry bomb? We could join Ryan and move into a house on Cherry Lane where we can pick all the cherries we want. * Wouldn’t life be a bowl full of them then. Knowing my luck, I’d end up with...
A French beer with a German name seems odd to me.* Why? Just in case you skipped history class that day, in the previous century the two countries had some relationship issues. I think they saw a counselor, or maybe that was a Chancellor? "De l'eau a coulé sous les...
Fresh Prince (Willard Smith) age 57. Doug E Fresh (Douglas Davis) age 59, Mannie Fresh (Byron Otto Thomas) age 56, Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams for some Canadian content) age 57. * All these Freshes aren’t so fresh anymore, maybe in need of a refresh? Still...
Just like LL Cool J and The Notorious B.I.G., I’m going back to Cali.* Work in the East, rest in the West. It's been quite a while since my last Cali Common, ** a beer that I find is hard to find and not at all common. Perth Brewery has been good enough to whip up a...
Whenever I watch the evolution of a nitro in my glass I think beer pouring could well be a spectator sport. A nitro stout fade to black is magic in the spirits world, the inverse of Metallica’s take on the subject. * So it was with these mountain high hopes that I...
With a name like Death Wave I expected a West Coast double digit triple hanging 10% on board with the four surfers of the apocalypse. But what I got instead is a 4% land locked light and lively lager from Edmonton, Alberta, the land of cattle and oil, a city not...
You know when you expect something to be something but it turns out being something else? That something can be a good thing or a bad thing, but here’s the thing. I expected a lean mean Philippine horse kick ass brew and I got a creamy malty slow going Belgian...
An endless summer sure sounds swell, but for us COM an endless Oktoberfest is hard to beat.* It’s also hard on the liver. Ok, so not exactly endless, but a little Oktoberfest in November is good for the soul. Breakwall has whipped up a Marzen for some better late than...
At the big Ontario Craft Brewers conference and attending talks and sessions but once my thirst for knowledge was slaked it was time to head for the bar so the bartender could tend to my other thirst. And a grand thirst it was, so I selected a Royal City brew to see...