56 Reviews
What’s so great about beer of the month club? Let me tell you. Beer. Another thing that is great about it is getting introduced to brewer’s like MacLean’s Ales, hailing and harkening from the half-hidden hamlet of Hanover.* They seem to be a month club staple and we...
When it comes to coffee, I like mine hotter than the hobs of hell, blistered lips be damned. Unless of course it is a coffee stout, then chill and swill is the plan. This isn’t a coffee stout though. It is a coffee dark mild, that being a dark English ale. Not just a...
Editor’s Comment: An RA Sunday night special sip and report review. A MacKinnon farm produce pint is up for a pour and score. RA quaffing a light fruit beer, say it isn’t so! I think I just felt the earth shift on it’s axis a bit. Nothing will ever be the same again....
Plan A is history. Toast. The inedible kind that is too burnt to rescue with peanut butter. The Leafs are on their way to the links, licking their wounds and practicing their putts and pitches. Plan B is now the new Plan A, but the Oilers are on the brink of...
From the smokestacks of Montreal to the Stacks of Sudbury. Time for some culture from the COMDB poet’s corner. My abs are with Waldo, no where to be seen, time for a light beer, my fitness routine. Stack’s tribute to the miners is what I picked, while I watch my...
Reading the fine print is not my forte. So when I saw the name on this brew I thought about Grissom and his CSI UV light** tracking blood spatter around a crime scene, and I thought of Bud Light***. So I had in my mind a light (although hopefully not as mild) lager...
In the year 1854 Oscar Wilde is born, the Republican party was formed, and the original Collingwood Brewery is established. This brew celebrates that brewery milestone as well as the 8th anniversary of the modern-day brewery. This is a different style of freestyle....
Hob knobbing at a fancy private function, that’s just how we roll at COMDB. An open bar but limited selection, not that I’m complaining. I had a choice, suck on a Heinie or quaff an Ultra.* I have had a few heinies in my day (that didn’t sound good) but had never...
People ask me, how do you sample so many beers and still stay slim and trim. Actually, no one has ever asked me that, but if they did, I could refer to the Beach Ball Fitness Program™, or how I stay active fishing in the summer and watching hockey in the winter. Of...
I don’t think anyone would mistake me for someone who is carb or calorie conscious and I wouldn’t know an electro-light from a red light, but that didn’t stop me from trying this Rally session lager with electrolytes. To be honest, my first thought was that an...