Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
A fun way to spend the evening. Beau’s had their quarterly business meetings in town and they all came over for a few hours of opening bottles – including the father, son and a sizable host. We nine started well with two saisons and biere de garde: Hennepin, Jack D’or and 3 Monts. Batch 10 … Continue reading “Beau’s Thursday Night Tasting In the Backyard”
Back. I made it back. I hit four beer stores over around 500 km and nine and a half hours. Now, whereas Pretty Things was just a one time bottle that I passed in the night, now I have seven bottles representing three of their brews and any number of batches. Those canny little cap … Continue reading “CNY Roadtrip To Stock The Stash”
Victoria Day weekend is here. Err… I mean… VICTORIA DAY IS HERE!!! That’s better. It’s gonna get boozy. Break out the two-fours. No, not those ones. We were thinking of a couple of nights in nearby Montreal but the hotels weren’t cheap so now it’s going to be all about what’s within an hour’s drive. … Continue reading “This Week We Celebrate Queen Victoria, The Two-Four And These Beery News Notes”
Well, well, well. I entered the first day of my 62nd year today. No trauma. No big plans. Not like when you hit 25 or 40. Those were panicky birthdays. Feeling like middle age is coming too fast. Now that it is here… who cares? All one has to do is consider the alternative and … Continue reading “The “Happy Birthday To Me!” Edition Of These Beery News Notes”
No throngs showed up apparently. It was even fairly quiet. But that thing in the sky was up there with the most amazeballs things I’ve ever seen. Certainly that I’ve seen from the backyard. As illustrated with a far better camera than the one that tried to capture my view of my new pal and … Continue reading “Well, That Was The Eclipse That Was… And Now Here Are The Beery News Notes”
I couldn’t stop myself from reusing this image…*** A couple of weeks ago, I flagged the upcoming solar eclipse that is passing over our region, as illustrated again above. All other topics have stopped, it seems. We are calm and composed but at the other end of the lake, the Ontario version fo Niagara Falls … Continue reading “The “What’s Beer Got To Do With The Solar Eclipse” Edition Of The Beery News Notes”
Let’s get right into it. Jeff posted the graph right above us right there this week which deliciously not only sums up the place of non-alcoholic beer in the US market but also, as any good specific graphical representation of data, also invites us to consider any number of the crises in beer or in … Continue reading “The Super Fantastic Yet Soon To Be Chocolate Stained Easter 2024 Edition Of Your Beery News Notes”
Fine. It may be spring but it was also -4C on Tuesday morning. Better warm up before eclipse day. They say half a million people might head our way. There’s not enough food to feed that many people… let alone a good seat at a bar. I’ll be in the backyard, myself. But not to … Continue reading “Your Super Exciting Beery News Notes For Q3 March 2024”
This is it! I know… I know. It’s like a weather bore blog around here with some news items Scotched taped on – but really is there any better day to see coming than the first of spring? Or is that too hemispheric of me! It’s the last day of summer in our nether regions… … Continue reading “Your See Ya Later Frikkin’ Winter 2024 Edition Of The Beery News Notes”
This is great. Up there is an image posted this week on Bluesky by Liam of IrishBeerHistory, a quote from the book As I Was Going Down Sackville Street by Oliver St. John Gogarty which is just excellent. I will refer to it as such from now on. Govern yourselves accordingly. You know what else is … Continue reading “The First Beery News Notes For The Good Part Of The Year”