144 Reviews
Just like all pilsners are lagers but not all lagers are pilsners, so to are all clementines tangerines but not all tangerines are clementines. * As far as a Christmas stocking full of clementines goes, I don’t have any childhood memories of such a fruitful sock...
I remember as a kid seeing that super scary movie The Birds.* Only Alfred Hitchcock could make birds on a wire suspenseful and scary. I mean really, how can you be scared of something that has its pecker on its face? But I remember after seeing that movie when I...
In most cases the hockey captain is sober before the game, and I know if the Leafs’ captain is getting drunk after a playoff game it’s not on champagne. Henderson offered us their best and when we were done with that we got their least, a zero IPA that was OK. So...
Atherley, with the famous swing bridge, the infamous Atherley Arms and fortunes won (and lost) at nearby Casino Rama. Along with the natural beauties of the scenic meeting place of Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching, some may say there were natural beauties at the...
There’s a fog covering Thunder Bay like an uncreative two-tone quilt of grey and the sleeping giant has hit the snooze button and isn’t getting up today. But if Arthur thinks his port is foggy, he should check out The Grand Banks. Almost as foggy as the morning after...
In the woods, drinking a Big Apple brew from a Little Apple brewer. Toronto* based Amber Brewery has whipped up an American style New York not so pale ale for us. Suds on the Hudson. Way back in the day (when the Canadian dollar was par with the US dollar) we enjoyed...
Not just any wolf, this one is The Wolf. Of all the canis lupus in all the wild wolf habitats in all the world, this is the one. Should we call him Neo or is that too obvious an anagram?* Neo Wolf, not to be confused with Nero Wolfe. ** It seems my digressions know no...
Benedict Arnold, Judas, Brutus. A less than auspicious list of turncoats, traitors all.* The only thing I can surmise is the three bearded brewing amigos that are the new brewer Turncoat picked the name one evening when they were well into sampling their own wares....
Willy Loman had a dream, but eventually he found out that the American dream wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. The Boss wondered “is a dream a lie if it don’t come true, or is it something worse”. * Quite an ominous introduction to Counterpart’s Dream Pale Ale. A...
Not my first peachy pint, in fact, not my first peachy poolside pint. Come to think of it, not my first sneaky pint either. * Lake of Woods warns us, they call this alliterative ale “deliciously delectable and deceivingly drinkable”. They also advise us not to...