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My plan for Father’s Day. Take a motorcycle ride (no falls), have a beer and mow the lawn. So after my bike ride I am doing some Father’s “day” drinking, and the song “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” comes to mind. I tell my son this and he says “as long as you weren’t...
I’m not much for roughing it now, but back in the day we did some camp ground quaffing, resulting in a few cross-border escapades. Happy hour in A-Bay *when the Canadian dollar was still paper and worth as much as it’s US counterpart. Can crushing, bar hopping and...
How about a COM International Armchair brew tour to exotic Europe, with Poland’s favorite brew and snackin’ on my 4 cheese Italian Cheez-Its. A beer and a snack, my $5 a day tour of the old country. Pouring that big ol’ bottle of pale lager* into my big ol’ pale...
Apocalypso?? Perhaps a misspelled tribute to the epic war film “Apocalypse Now”*, or the not as epic but still engaging Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto”.** More likely it is word play in reference to the Calypso hops used in this Collingwood dry hopped pils.*** The Blue...
The Köstritzer brewery is named after the town of Bad Köstritzer in central Germany and is famous for their schwarzbier which they have been brewing since 1543. They even call their brewery a Schwarzbier brewery. So how will they do with a pale pilsner? A quaffing is...
Pils for your ills and ales for what ales ya’. Although I am feeling fine I think it’s time for my pils. You know the old saying, 16 ounces of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Old Ben Franklin spouted that advice back in the day and ended up on the US $100 bill so...
Out for dinner with Farmer Steve to his favourite Italian restaurant. It must have been an auspicious occasion because despite his reputation for being as tight as a superglued clam, to his credit he paid the tab. Even the waitress was shocked, she said sometimes he...
Many years ago Daryl Sittler was at one of our functions and gave a talk about his historic 10 point night which included 6 goals and 4 assists. In that 1976 Leafs home game against Boston*, Sittler's record, which still stands today, broke Rocket Richard’s previous...
After a triple chocolate 10% extreme extravaganza blast off it was time to bring me back to something closer to surface as in down to earth. So I thought it would be a good idea to get back to basics and explore a nice pilsner of the Italian persuasion. Enter Marco...
Chips and dips and hockey night in Canada takes me back to grade schooldays, but instead of a cola I have in hand an adult beverage of my choice. Tonight, it happens to be a crisp pil to go with my crisp chips. If you have the means I would strongly suggest acquiring...