40 Reviews
Way back in the day, Saturday night was hockey night in Canada! Which of the six teams in the league would battle it out on our 22" black and white screen? Foster Hewitt yelling into the metal microphone "He shoots! He scores!" and the Canadiens PA system announcing "...
The Exchange has us on an Extension and when it comes to beer the COM are here to answer the call! Farmer Steve likes his coffee a lot, hot and from the pot. For him there’s no such thing as Too Much Coffee Man.* He’s a caf-fiend that’s for sure, but also a bit of a...
I thought a bricks and mortar baseball reference might be the Wrigley Field ivy covered brick outfield wall, but there’s no baseball banter with this brew. Left Field, our favourite ballpark brewers are busy rhyming up a Bricks and Mortar Coffee Porter for us and I...
The emaciated gentlemen on the can Is, I assume, an 18th century porter in the flesh, or not as the case may be. Long gone, but certainly not forgotten by the master malters and millers at Muddy York who have brewed this porter as a tribute to those porters and dock...
A COMDB site visit to Decew Falls (the brewery not the nature walk), and a sight for thirsty eyes it was. In addition to their standard fare, there was a Draft Pick Porter on tap, which turned out to be my first round draft pick. Some people think about what adult...
At the big Ontario Craft Brewers conference and you would think at a big beer event like this there would be a coffee stout break. There was lots of coffee they made the old fashion way, they urned it. * But without a doubt there was no stout about. I spied a Second...
Although our collective agreement with the COMDB Translation Department is as restrictive as a straight jacket, it does have a few proverbial loopholes, and one is etymology. And I happen to know that our egghead Editor is an amateur etymologist of the first order, so...
Editor’s Comment: Farmer Steve is on an East Coast tour with a pit stop in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Ever devout, he stopped to worship at the local church, only to discover that it was a brewery for heaven’s sakes. FS: Stopped in at The Church Brewery, where beer is...
When it comes to " before the dawn" no problem. I sampled this dark, dry and mysterious porter about 10 hours before the dawn. If Lake of Bays is implying "just before the dawn" * that's a bit early for me to blow off some froth, the only thing I'm doing then is...
This is one beer you can’t pack in the grandkids school lunch! Peanut butter is a definite no go when it comes to school these days.* Back in the 60’s I had a PB & J sandwich in my lunch every day and I don’t remember anyone getting a swelled head or any other...