124 Reviews
Me: I’m reviewing a London Pilsner today. JT: I thought the Euro brew tour was done and dusted? Me: Not that London. It’s the London on the Thames River, just North of Westminster near Stratford, up the road from Windsor… You know, that London. * Just to be clear,...
Roy Rogers rode a Palomino; Trigger was known as “the smartest horse in the movies”. But when it comes to smart horses, “A horse is a horse, of course, of course, And no one can talk to a horse of course. That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed.”...
Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey wrote the song Take it Easy. * It wasn’t until Jackson Browne heard it on the radio that he realized The Eagles had recorded it. The 1972 release was the first of many hit singles for The Eagles, but I like the Jackson Browne version...
It’s another defining moment in the history of COMDB. Touchy: someone who is easily offended, upset, or irritated. Could the cranky old men be described as touchy? If touchy means a very low tolerance for idiots than guilty as charged. But way back in the day we all...
A precarious precipice, the frighteningly dangerous edge of a very steep rock cliff, where one wrong move will cause you to plummet to your untimely death on the jagged rocks below, leaving your lifeless body at the mercy of the merciless carnivorous scavengers that...
Living the Van life and loving it. No, I’m not living in a van. It’s just another stop on the COM Vancouver brew tour and I’m at a fancy pants dining establishment that those of us in the know refer to as “The Club”. Actually, everyone calls it that because that’s its...
On my multiyear Vancouver brew tour I got gassed in Gastown, and had a brew or two by Brewery Creek. Not last or least I quaffed a Yeast Van and had a Stanley Park cup to toast my beleaguered Buds (in a rebuilding decade). I even made a trip to the island, no not that...
Have you ever said to yourself “that’s either a great idea or a terrible idea”? Me too. That’s exactly what I said to myself when I saw a red pilsner on the menu. I had previously enjoyed an SOB dark, a Steel & Oak beer that is in case you were wondering which of...
Thornbury bought King. Colio bought Thornbury. We loved Thornbury beers here at COMDB. * Clark the pig, once the face, or should we say snout, of Thornbury is now out to pasture, a bacon and ham hocks retirement so Thornbury could concentrate on cider. How do you like...
I sometimes indulge, if that’s the right word, in a big brewer beer, just to remind myself how much I enjoy craft beers. Case in point, although I’d never buy a case, is big ol’ Beck’s beer from Bremen, Germany. Part of the Anheuser-Busch InBev. empire, there’s none...