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What an odd week. Very bad stuff about craft beer in the UK then more about very bad things in Ontario craft beer. Didn’t help that I was reading Motherwell, a recent memoir about someone about my age whose family didn’t emigrate from the same bit of Scotland mine left behind for Canada in 1956. Grim … Continue reading “The Beery News Notes For The End Of January And Perhaps Of BrewDog”
Well, that was a good holiday season, wasn’t it. It wound up with Ontario heading into another semi-demi-lockdown as of Monday so I can’t say that it is all fine and dandy. I still have my stash. And I can settle down into my culturally appropriate assumptions that the stash somehow helps defend against viruses. … Continue reading “Your First Beery News Notes For A Thursday In 2022”
Just two weeks and a bit to go. Remember how 2020 dragged on and on? 2021 seems like it was less than a month long. Got my third jab. Thanks for asking, the only side effect has been just a bit of a lingering cold. Are you Christmassy? Me, not like in 2015 when Boak … Continue reading “Your Mid-December 2021 Edition Of The Thursday Beery News Notes”
It’s now April so I think we may be well into the third week of the kids at home and limited public travel. The working life of a municipality has been fairly breakneck but we are all in this together. Not much time for either the beer or the blog… which puts a bit of … Continue reading “The Thursday Beery News Notes For Week Three… I Think… Maybe”
It’s not often that I get to headline the weekly update with something so.. so… unbeery – but is beer ever really that much removed from politics? Consider this photo to the right that circulated about a man to the left. I was as sad that it was Coors Light, the faceless multinationals of beer … Continue reading “The Last Thursday Beer News Notes Before The UK General Election”
The day started early and I bombed past MacKinnon Brothers – the farmstead brewery in Bath, Ontario – to see if the barley was coming in. No one seemed to be around so I headed along. Probably got themselves all out into the fields at 4:45 am or something as city folk like me snored. … Continue reading “Photo Album: Three Wineries And Four Breweries”
Quiet. So quiet Stan is taking a month off. You know what he does in these little gaps of his? Not judging. No. Not me. It’s election time in Ontario all of a sudden but, again like in 2014, I expect a quiet sleepy time for beer as debating point on public policy. That is … Continue reading “Finally – A Quiet Week In Beer Thursday Links”
For this month’s edition of The Session, host Jon Abernathy of The Brew Site has asked us to consider home brewing. This is an interesting thing as we do not often get to consider, to reflect. To dwell upon. OK, who is kidding who? That is all I do. I have had three phases of home brewing, the last … Continue reading “Session 132: A Homebrewing Conversation”
People complain. People complain that folk complain. It’s quite odd given people complain all the time about the value of this or the value of that. From donuts to computers to cars to the location of your house, people question and complain every time that feeling creeps up where what was assumed to be worth … Continue reading “A First Good Beery Question In 2018 To Ponder This New Year’s Day”
I have been playing with this addition to the adventures of Al and Max first shared with the world in 2014’s cult classic, The Unbearable Nonsense of Craft Beer. The five whole reviews of that first book left at Amazon have meant the world to me since that time. It is still available at a very reasonable $12.95 … Continue reading “Al and Max and the Strange Blue Light”