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Whether calculated by the two summer months of July and August or the astrological summer from solstice to equinox, today pretty marks the ending of the first third. This is your two-thirds of summer warning. WEEEEEEEET!!! Remember, you can still plant seeds in patio pots or right into the ground as you will eat vegetables … Continue reading “The Thursday Beery News Notes For Your “Summer’s One Third Over” Warning”
The blues? It’s the sugar speaking. Or is it the lingering Covid. The good news is that I took this week off to get some garden chores done and, glory be, I did some and, super dooper glory be, the big green truck actually took all the yard stuff I put in the green bin. … Continue reading “The Thursday Beery News Notes For The Post Easter Blues”
And now it’s cold. For good. Plus snow. See that poblano pepper plant setting blossoms? That was Sunday. Sunday?!?! Now it’s frikkin’ cold. Happy we bought a new furnace a few years ago. The old one was a one-stager that came on like a jet plane taking off a runway. Woke you up early in … Continue reading “Your Beery News Notes Of Mid-November With The Furnace Running Full Blast”
There, at least that’s over. That’s him there to the right, apparently ordering two. You know, this may have been the St. Patrick’s Day that I’ve always wanted. Quiet. By force of law. Even last year, during the first week of something being quite wrong, there were college idiots half smashed on a Tuesday loitering … Continue reading “The Day After St. Paddy’s Day Beery News Notes”
Well, here we go. One year gone and another year starts full of hope and promise… oh, and an insurrection in the US Capital. Nice. This is the year of the 18th anniversary of my beer blogging, too. That’s 31.56% of my life. What an utter waste. Not at all like the art of Joel … Continue reading “The First Thursday Beery News Notes For A Brand Spanking New 2021”
It’s gone a bit quiet, hasn’t it. Yes, yes… there’s lockdown after lockdown all around – but there’s also winter settling in and Yuletide, too. Watching the UK – French blockade news is disheartening but at least France 24 is reporting all the Scottish scallops now in Paris have been sold. So, while we can’t … Continue reading “Christmas Eve 2020’s Merry And Very Own Beery News Notes”
After last week’s mess of unified theory of a something or other, it would be nice to find some chat that is (i) about beer and (ii) not about other things. You know, those bits of the trivial dribble that attracted me to scribbling about beer in the first place. It’s not just that good … Continue reading “Your Thursday Newsy Notes For The End Of July In Beerland”
Have my mentioned my last two and a half years have been a bit of a blur at work? The history blogging has suffered. But it’s always the things we hold most dear that fall away, aren’t they. Well, as I expect is the case with you, it’s a bit quieter in the evenings around … Continue reading “Wouldn’t We All Prefer A Nice Quart of Dorchester Ale… Or Beer?”
This post is a reworking and updating of a passage from that cult classic Ontario Beer: a Heady History…, the book Jordan and I published five years ago. I post this not only as a blatant reminder for Christmas giving, but as a look see to add to what we knew then about the role … Continue reading “Beer And Brewing By Hudson Bay In The Late 1600s”
Ah, the last few days of summer… as long as we were are in the northern hemisphere. The neighborhood is literally humming with sound of critters, birds and bugs out gathering in the last of their winter’s stores. It’s actually quite the thing. Consider for a moment Keats’s Ode to Autumn, would you? My grapes are … Continue reading “The Week We All Decided Good Beer Is Anti-Fascist Edition Of The Thursday Beer News”