422 Reviews
A Crownsmen show feature brew from Victoria, BC, this beer is in many ways much like the show. A perplexing mystery wrapped in an unfathomable enigma. Just as we never know where the show will go, or why anyone even watches it, or if anything on the show makes any...
I played a bit of hockey as a kid and I was a hockey parent. Lifetime fan of the Leafs for better or worse. I think I could even be a colour commentator for hockey night in Canada if I could keep it clean. But when Mike Myers introduced us to the expression “Elbows...
Pedantic Editor: I wonder if otto-matopoeia refers to words that sound the same as their meaning in German? Sounds like it’s time to call in the COMDB Translation Department. COMDB Translation Department: We don’t hear from you often. Don’t get us wrong, we’re not...
Some have said that timing is everything, other say timing is the only thing. * The debate rages on, but most would agree that timing is something. When it comes to us cranky old men we say anytime is beer time and that summertime is Mexican lager time. Maize in the...
Some would say Niagara Falls are spectacular, magnificent, breathtaking. Niagara Brewing calls them impressive and awe inspiring. They also say, and I quote that this beer is “as impressive as the mighty Niagara itself”. I think a tasting is in order to fact check...
Is this bring your Ursus Maritimus to the bar week or what? After an Eisbӓren bock bear, now we are sampling a Boréale big white bear beer. Then there was that polar park pilsner we partook in. Or that high flying great white in flight from Maverick. I could go on an...
Farmer Steve is so cheap he's free, so when he brings a case of Laker to the party that tells you something. The beer store calls it a " value priced" beer. Waterloo Brewing, * the pour the boar brewers, are also the Laker maker, but keep the brands separate. What I...
I don’t believe any of the cranky old men have ever said “I’m in the mood for a raspberry light lager”. But with one on my beer shelf front and center, daring me to throw convention to the wind, I head up the raspberry trail with Whitewater Brewing to find the best...
Ok, where’s the pig? There seems to be some kind of name game being played here by the marketing mavens. Is it Blue Mountain Light Lager by Thornbury Brewing or is it Light Lager by Blue Mountain Brewing out of Thornbury? Coincidentally both breweries are located at...