Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
It gets better. We tell our teens that but it is a bit hard to believe sometimes. Like in a pandemic exiting its second year when the sun is well below the horizon. But there’s only a few weeks of this darkness and there is beauty all around even in these troubled times. Up there? … Continue reading “Your Beery News Notes For The Start Of This The Coming Darkest Month”
What was that? Summer 2021? Done? It’s still going on here as I am on an actual holiday and doing fun stuff like getting new spectacles for my face and a new electrical panel for the basement. Wooot! This is the dream and I am livin’ it. I even had 330 ml of a 3.8% … Continue reading “The Last Of August’s Thursday Beery News Notes”
August. It’s coming. Even though it’s the month of my road trip holiday, the first in two years, no one says “Yay! August!!” do they. It’s the last gasp, the slipping away of the sands of summer. The first hint of sweater weather. Darker beers to suit darker days. The crops are coming in, as … Continue reading “The End Of July Heralds These Thursday Beery News Notes”
It’s a good thing that as a teenager I drank really really bad red wine a few times so I had something to measure the reaction I had to the AZ vaccine against. Worst hangover ever. But a welcome one. I was actually more nervous about the immediate reaction than any fear of a slight … Continue reading “The Thursday Beery News Notes For The Week Of The Big Jab”
I have to say that imagining holidaying in any sense is a bit of a stretch for me and no doubt many others these days. Which tends to mean it is a good reason not to seek out strong drink but rather look elsewhere for meaning – like my choice this last few weeks: engaging … Continue reading “The “If This Is December Do These Be Holidays?” Edition Of Beery New Notes”
What are we going to do now? It appears the summer has ended with a thump. The clampdown. The BBC reports that social gatherings above six are banned in England from 14 September. The nightclubs of British Columbia are now shut. Greece has shut down. Kinda makes reading about beer a side show… kinda. Jeff, … Continue reading “Thursday’s Beery News Notes For The Clampdown”
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”
I am not sure why it has gone so quiet. Am I reading the wrong websites? Was the fact that I know far more about knitting a clue? The coolest thing I saw this week was this image of a 20 pint cask with an handle posted on Twitter by Geoff Latham, English brewer and history … Continue reading “A Thursday Beery News Update For A Quiet Mid-June”
Two evenings of work this weeks seriously imposed on my idle key tapping time. I know you share my pain. Anyway, it’s just as well as it’s been a quiet week from my point of view. The Ponderosa Tavern is shutting its doors in my old hometown of Bible Hill, Nova Scotia after a five … Continue reading “The Q2-May Slightly Shorter Version Of Thursday Beery Newsy Notes”
Well, here we are. March. -15C this morning with the wind chill but at least it’s March. Things could be worse, I suppose. I could find myself at what the British call a hen party like we see in the photo of the week captured by temporarily angry Katie apparently practicing her mind control in … Continue reading “Now That It’s March It Must Be Thursday So Here’s The News”