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This is odd. A rare case, indeed. A press release that you are really interested in for what is actually set out in the press release: Bath, ON – You’re invited to raise a glass with MacKinnon Brothers Brewing Company on Monday, November 7th. Get the first taste and celebrate the release of our brand … Continue reading “MacKinnon Releasing A Beer With Terroir… Really…”
I visited a brewery today. Barns filled with brewing equipment. No one was there. Walked into the keg storage building and saw kegs. Tried a door with a padlock on it. Padlock was open as it turned out. Even had the key still in it. Went in and looked at all the fermenters. Shouted hello … Continue reading “My Weekend With MacKinnon Brothers Brewing”
What a week. I spend the week’s few forecasted dry sunny hours on Tuesday evening hands on knees with this newly acquired handy friend indeed clearing out a patch invaded by raspberries and catnip about seven by ten foot to move some of the tomato plants into. I wanted to lay down and weep by … Continue reading “This Week’s Beery News Notes Are Fraught With All That A Thursday Might Entail”
Well, that wasn’t too bad of a winter, was it. Was it? A time for reflection and relaxation. And winning prizes apparently. This was posted on the Facebook page for my near neighbours MacKinnon Brother’s Brewing who explained how their farm and brewery operation took the gold cup… or the blue ribbon… or red the … Continue reading “The Middlie-March Endie-O’Winter Thursday Beery News Notes”
What to do on summer holiday? Now that it is July, I really have to figure out what the second half of August could promise. Not just chores, right? Chores ought to be done by then, done well before the snow shovels and garden hose swap places again. Martyn’s eternal holiday got me thinking about … Continue reading “July 2022’s Very Own First Beery News Notes”
Four days off at Easter in mid-April is quite sensible. March is too dodgy with the threat of snow. This weekend promises, on average, at least one day of decent half-assed yard work with tasty drinks. Spring is here and soon the lands will be dry. Events too are coming soon. The annual revival is … Continue reading “Your Beery News Notes For The Easter Long Weekend”
I have been burning off unused holidays built up over the months of the early times, back when there were no days or even hours to be had. This week, I motored 20 km west, over to MacKinnon Brothers to pick up gifty swag and chatted briefly about business with brother Dan, the brother who … Continue reading “The Last Autumnal Thursday And Its Beery News Notes”
Hmm. Nothing of, like, a common theme out there this past week, was there? There was some great apple pressing porn to watch, for sure. That stuff is great. And my near neighbours at MacKinnon have been bringing in their hops crop, as illustrated. Fabulous. But there’s also the pending end of summer and, with … Continue reading “As Summer Soon Turns To Autumn Take Comfort In These Beer News Notes For Thursday”
OK. Going to share a little something. I now really like the idea of just getting past 2020. There. Said it. Unless 2021 is worse. Like “human farming alien invasion from outer space” worse. That’d be bad. Regardless, time marches on and we are now that bit closer to the future than the past. Here … Continue reading “Thursday Beery News Notes For These Shortening Days”
There is a certain something in the air. The sound of back to school ads? The fear of seeing a pumpkin ale on a store shelf? Summer is winding up. Harvest has begun, as MacKinnon has pointedly pointed out. I was out there in the trenches… err… ditches in 2018. Looking forward to their Harvest … Continue reading “The Thursday Beer Notes For A Week Or So From My Summer Vacation”