18 Reviews
Not our first Siren call, we have sampled this UK brewer’s Broken Dreams and expressed our super suds appreciation. But this brew is a whole different kettle of fish. Named after an Italian liqueur*, this one is a strange and compelling combination of grapefruit sour...
Art appreciation time at COMDB. No, I’m not going to treat you to another one of my Hallmark worthy rhymes.* Instead, how about something much more tasteful, a Collective Arts sampling, their Guava Gose no less! I seem to remember a past guava brewski that I thought...
Chilling in Vancouver, and after a relaxing patio pint at the Ballyhoo, the wise and wonderful waitress says to me “Would you like to try something interesting”. I must admit my imagination ran wild for a second until I remembered I was old enough to be her father.* ...
Here at COMDB were are an equal opportunity drinker when it comes to beer, we try them all, at least once. The Gose genre* is not completely unfamiliar to us. We have told a few Gose stories around the old campfire, some of them pretty scary I must admit. In some ways...
Happy National Banjo day to one an all. A tip of the hat to famous pickers Earl Scruggs (Earl was pickin’ and Lester was grinnin’), Emily Stayer, and Steve Martin (the part time comedian and full-time banjo player).* If there is an instrument I would pick it would be...
I’m a big Stockyards fan. Their Festbier was the best beer. Their Missed Calls is not to be missed. And their Iron Horse IPA kept rollin’ all night long. All super suds status. So when I saw a new brew of theirs on the shelf, I packed that puppy into my 8 pack and...
I don’t really have a sour disposition, although some may dispute that statement,* but the right sour can be an enjoyable departure from the malt and hops mainstream. As far as guavas go, which I suppose on their own is from the tree to the ground, it’s not my go to...
A sour wheat beer, this could well be the worst of both worlds. But it’s a Lock Street brew, of Dalhousie docks fame. The proud purveyor of Portside Pilsner, the seaside supplier of Seafarer Scottish suds and the bayside brewer of Black Sail. A great brewer taking on...
CS Lewis wrote of the adventures of Lucy and Edmund and their trip with King Caspian X aboard his ship, the Dawn Treader.* Maybe I’m not as adventurous as all that, but I get the feeling I’m in uncharted waters every time I sample a sour. And this an IPA sour no less....
In my youth I was a reader with a social life to match. The name of this brew reminded me of one of the modern classics that I tackled in my younger days. Could it be Heller giving us hell in “Catch 22”? Or Burgess with his colourful “Clockwork Orange”? Perhaps Capote...