Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
Not the big thaw, the ice jam busting thaw. Just the small thaw that tells you a big thaw is not that far off. The thaw that tells you you probably don’t need to buy more bird feed for, basically, the squirrels. The bastardly squirrels. You can sit out now. In the sun. With your … Continue reading “Your Thursday Beery News Notes For The First Thaw”
Last week I was doom scrolling about the Ukraine. Earlier this week, it was about Ottawa.* Now it’s just about the blizzard. Today? Well, if my last name was “Event” I could have named a kid “Snow” and enlisted them in the army to remind me of today: Major Snow Event. Nasty stuff all over … Continue reading “Here We Are! February!! A New Month Of Beery News Notes!!!”
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”
One of the worrying things about these weekly news note posts is how rapidly one follows another. I wonder if they speed the pace of life. It’s not unlike shaving every morning. I look in the mirror and say “not you again!” But it is never quite again. Time the revelator.* Or maybe more time … Continue reading “The Very Last Beery News Notes For A Thursday In May 2021”
It’s been difficult to cope with the changing of the seasons as I have for every other year I’ve ever been on the planet. Familiar things – like heat or evenings – just seem to have gone away. But the week of Hallowe’en every four years helps set a milestone that’s hard not to stub … Continue reading “The Last Thursday Beery News Notes For October 2020, The US Election And My Tomato Plants”
How was this last week for you? I am happy to report I got my hands on a couple bottles of the wonderful Sinha Stout when I was up in Ottawa on my eyelid consult. Did I mention I have one stitch surgery coming up? It’s such a minor adjustment that I find it a … Continue reading “The Thursday Beery News Notes Now That We Are Entering Month Eight”
A quieter week. As I napped, I saw this image passing by on the internets screen this week and grabbed it for posterity. One reason it struck me was that it passed by soon after I read somewhere how craft beer was a response to 60 or 70 years of light pilsner. Hmm… that’s an … Continue reading “Your First Thursday Beery News Notes For Autumn 2020”
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”
What to make of a week like this. Two weeks ago I was at the Canadian national curling championships among 5,000 strangers and now I slip into work by a side entrance, go up an elevator and work on the top floor/attic of out office building behind a thick door maybe made in the 1840s. … Continue reading “Really? Is There Any Beery News To Tell On A Thursday?”
I thought the new month would have made a big difference. But a couple of twelve hour days in hard black shoes and a snow squall meeting me as I got off the bus that finally made it through rerouted traffic and, well… well… well, at least it ain’t February any more. Let’s see what … Continue reading “Fine… It’s March And Here Are The Thursday Beery News Notes”