124 Reviews
Every hour we have a beer in our hand is a happy hour for us COM. But when a few of us can get together at Northern Maverick for a brew, during their happy hour, that’s a bonus. In the little apple for the big ball game. It was a defensive battle with some impressive...
When two of our favourite brewers get together it calls for a collaboration celebration. If you are thinking to yourself, “what’s the big deal, it’s just a pilsner” I think you need to rethink your thinking. This is no ordinary, typical, run of the mill, common place...
A light beer that technically isn’t light. * A pilsner that they say is a Euro style lager. An Off the Hop Brewhouse brew, brewed at Newark Brewery. Is anything about this brew as it seems? Is this one of Rumsfeld’s unknown unknowns? A hops and malt mystery wrapped in...
Getting ready for the hockey game with a cool Pilsner from Manitoulin Island Brewing. It's the big island in Lake Huron - almost 50 km in length with small lakes within it. A kind of recursive lake thing going on. This beer is called Ten Mile Point * which is maybe a...
Driving back from la belle province I had to do some “parle en douceur” to convince the sûreté du Québec that all the beer I was bringing back was for personal consumption. Once I identified myself as one of the cranky old men who “boire de la bière” the officer gave...
Another pint of pizza pilsner. Of course, just like you, my first assumption was that this is an Italian Pilsner. Once again as is often the case I find my first assumption to be incorrect. I think we are in the age of misinformation and the land of mass assumption....
Way back in the day, as kids we used to catch catfish in the cat tails in the swamp under the railroad tracks. Cats in the weeds.* They call a muskie an ugly pike, but if you want to see an ugly fish take a mug shot of a mud cat with those bullhead whiskers moving...
Jupiter, Roman God of the sky, a lofty position to be sure. Overseeing the Romans, literally. Of course, Paniza’s first love isn’t Roman history, it’s good beer. But their second love isn’t Roman history either, it’s outer space. Beer Trek. The final frontier. To...
The wheelie pulling delivery guy on the can is in orbit and hauling ass (and pizza) around some unrecognizable pre- continental shift of a planet I assume is Earth. Although these days you never know what we’ll be calling the planet next. Enough political commentary,...
Skiing in Ontario brings you right to the Barrie area where they had tons of snow this year. While enjoying the winter sports in the area we also managed to get in a visit to Quayle's Brewery. This place is a little out of the way, * but well worth the effort to...