121 Reviews
Out to lunch* with my much better half (as I am regularly reminded) and procuring a pint of Portside Pilsner portside seemed to make all kinds of sense. Portside as in Port Dalhousie. Of course, I pronounced it “Dal – how-sie” as in the Halifax University but the...
Dysfunctional Mall? You’re saying to yourself “What the hell kind of name is that for a beer, or anything for that matter”. Well let me clear that up for you. If you had ever driven through North Bay (home of Gateway) on the Trans-Canada highway back in the day it was...
Brock Street brewers, you know, the brewery with the audacious claim of being the most refreshing street in Canada. One can only hope. And another Premium Pilsner, it seems like there are more premium brews than Dodds has pills. Makes you wonder which pilsner is the...
The Department of Morality (the missus) hands me a couple packages of steak for the BBQ. I look at the price and ask her if she really wants me to sear these suckers, she usually doesn’t trust me with such a prime cut. She tells me she is busy and I have to. How would...
Due to my keen deductive reasoning (spidey sense), and since this is an Italian style pilsner, I surmised that the word Figo is Italian and it turns out I am correct. Apparently Figo is Italian for “cool”.* My Figo poured clear and light golden with wisps of white...
Calgary, home of big rigs and big hats and big rodeos and of course Big Rock Brewery and their Plzen Pilsner. Many years ago I tried a Big Rock Honey Brown Amber which may have been the start of my love affair with Amber. You always remember your first. So how does...
The folks at Sawdust got their inspiration for this beer from a visit to Alsace. Where the hell is that I said to myself, my words exactly. There's lots of places I haven't been to and that's one of them. Apparently it is a Eastern region of France, bordering...
500 mil of Holsten pil to swill while I chill and grill. Thank goodness for the BBQ, man's excuse (opportunity) to quaff a cold one before dinner. According to The COMDB Guide to the Fine Art of BBQing, well done is well done. So if I want this chicken to be crispy,...
The art work on the can depicts a lone wolf howling at a moon almost as big as the whole night sky. Well not exactly. Wolf howling may be heard at night, but it is not a behavior directed at the moon. Instead, it is a hail to hunt. Which is a smooth syntax segue into...
I was going to try and compose my thoughts on this German Pilsner review tomorrow, but what the heck, I’ll give it a go now*. First thing I noticed is the can has a weird braille feel to it, I am assuming so it doesn’t slip out of your hand when it comes off ice?...