124 Reviews
First game of the cup final and it’s Vegas baby, and the house always wins. The Department of Morality has the AC cranked, and my basement lazy boy and big screen is in a deep freeze, so I have the faux fire blazing. Summertime hockey, so why not a by the fire...
Small guns and big suspicions. A dangerous combination. Another dangerous combination in my books is high ABV and a stout. Dark, dangerous and complex, and almost the highest ABV we have sampled, this Collective Arts Imperial stout has someone peeling me a grape* with...
COMDB are in the maison. The CIM convention in la belle Province to be precise, and quaffing a brew or deux with the Crownsmen dynamic duo.* Shout out to Jerrod and Rory and the whole MiningNow team. Montreal is doing it’s very best Vancouver impression. As the old...
I am going to share something with you that is very personal, because everyone tells me that talking about it helps. This is not easy to say in a public forum but my coming out and saying it may help my anxiety and those or others, so here it is. THE BEATINGS AT HOME...
News Flash: Shortage of Chocolate in Belgium Plays Havoc with Easter Festivities. It appears a shortage of chocolate has been perpetrated by the Belgian brewer Hugel who have put so much chocolate in their Invidia beer that many children will go without their...
Dark times call for dark beers, as the saying goes.* And with the sun setting at 8PM these days it must be dark beer time. I think the spring and fall solstice is when the sun sets at the same time as Hockey Night in Canada starts, but I am not sure, I was never much...
George Thorogood was in the dog house. The Commodores and the three little pigs were admiring the aesthetic and structural characteristics of a brick house. Jimi’s baby was staying at a red house over yonder and old Johnny Cougar had his eye set on some little pink...
Editor’s Notes: Our intrepid craftsman RA is on the case, we just don’t know how many beers into the case he is. But he submitted a texting review on this Refined Fool PB no J chocolate stout. Let’s take a look. RA: Good RS: That’s what we call a concise review. Do...
When you are reviewing brews, you have to watch your Ps and Qs,* your ABVs and your IBUs. Case in point is this stout from down on the Anderson homestead. A high ABV for a traditional stout and a high IBU too. Not imperial or impervious, but nonetheless I must confess...
Stouts generally fare pretty well with COM, with the exception of the Imperial high ABV variety which tend to be more miss than hit. That being said I was hell bent to sample this New Ontario Hades brew and I’ll be damned if it isn’t a strong yet tasty coffee stout of...