428 Reviews
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...
Editor’s Comment: When we got a postcard “Wish you were beer” we knew our intrepid international man of mystery, JT, was on the road again. This trip finds him in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest has a myriad of must see spots including the stunning architecture of the...
On our Cranky Old trick or treat countdown we’ve dealt with ghouls and goblins but we are about to take on perhaps the scariest fictional fright of fancy yet. Could it be the extremely malnourished gentleman that graces the can of Kryptonite 7.0? That zom-boney on...
Our Cranky Old trick or treat countdown has us seeing ghosts. Back in the day a ghost was an apparition, a past person now dead but restless, manifesting to the living, deceased but not desisting, causing havoc and in general scaring the bejesus out of those of us...
A James Brown dance move, a starchy supper staple, and now a beer! * Once thought extinct by aleontologists, the rarely brewed and not oft quaffed potato lager is ready for a big-time comeback courtesy of Sawdust City. The COMDB translation department quickly told us...