125 Reviews
On a family ski trip to Ellicottville NY and we passed by a restaurant named FTR. The misses thought it looked quaint, and would be good for us and the grandkids, so I said I would check it out online. “It has a kid’s menu” I told her, and that was all she wrote, we...
“True North” out of Vaughn. You know what’s North of Vaughn? How about almost all of Canada, most of Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Alaska, Greenland, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan to name a few places. If you are from Toronto and have never been to Algonquin Park (which is...
It’s February already? Nobody told me.* I missed going dry the first few days of the month, so I guess a dry February this year is out of the question. Maybe next year. JT is taking on dry February but when he heard this year was a leap year he scheduled an overseas...
On the road and the demands of sunset driving dictated I pull over in Burlington for a Timmies large regular with an old fashion plain (the donut, not me). It was required to help me navigate the hardline haulers and the Tokyo drifters that make rush hour highway...
After almost 40 years of training (marriage), I’m usually pretty good at following instructions, although the Department of Corrections may disagree. She blames my selective hearing for the occasional missed missive. Fair enough, at least I’m pretty good with...
It’s not The Clash,* but London is calling to tell us about their Organic 4PM Sunset suds, their oatmeal stout. And the COM are here to answer the call. So there’s a Sunset going down (sounds redundant) and my train of thought stopped at a station called Sundown, a...
A bit of a puzzle, this one. The green and gold on the can label are pretty unusual in the beer line up. The picture has a couple of birds - oh wait, they're Toucans,* drinking two cans of beer. That could be a piece of the puzzle. This is an oatmeal stout from Prince...
A stout that’s not a stout, what’s that all about? It’s about a white stout no doubt. I haven’t had a lot of luck with the genre, usually they are just too damn sweet for me. Yes, when it comes to my stouts the choice is usually black and white. But on a bar stool at...
Long Dark Voyage to Uranus! The Department of Morality said “That’s disgusting. Who would drink something with a name like that.” Although most likely a rhetorical question the answer is, I would. I’m not sure if she is offended by Russian Imperial Stouts or space...
Continuing on our coast to coast toast to Canada from my big screen facing Laz-boy. We have been to the sunny shores of PEI, the rain forests of BC, stampede (and Oiler) crazy Alberta, and good ol’ Ontar-ari-ario. Our next adventure takes us to la belle province. Vous...