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Deux Review Pour Vous

Deux Review Pour Vous

COMDB are in the maison. The CIM convention in la belle Province to be precise, and quaffing a brew or deux with the Crownsmen dynamic duo.* Shout out to Jerrod and Rory and the whole MiningNow team. Montreal is doing it’s very best Vancouver impression. As the old...

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One of a Kind for Better or Worse

One of a Kind for Better or Worse

Another visit to Fenelon Falls, home to Fenelon Falls and  ….. and… let me think. Oh yea Fenelon Falls Brewing too. FFB says they are committed to “delivering one-of-a-kind experiences”. I remember going deep sea fishing once and we were all greener around the gills...

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High Anxiety Cure

High Anxiety Cure

I am going to share something with you that is very personal, because everyone tells me that talking about it helps. This is not easy to say in a public forum but my coming out and saying it may help my anxiety and those or others, so here it is.  THE BEATINGS AT HOME...

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Frost Warning

Frost Warning

First of all, Frosty the Friendship Dragon looks about as friendly as Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion after a battle with the Night King.* As in not too. Then I got thinking about other frosties, Frosty the Snowman (magical), Jack Frost (mystical) David Frost...

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Gaslighting a Third Period Fire

Gaslighting a Third Period Fire

How about those Leafs. Game 4 was déjà vu all over again. Third period, down but not out, broke but not broken, with the fat lady in the stands doing her “do re mi” warm ups. Things certainly looked dire. But just like old Bob Dylan used to say, when you ain’t got...

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Lions.Double.Brew   Where You At?

Lions.Double.Brew Where You At?

The movie lions that came to mind for me didn’t really elicit the fear response. The Cowardly Lion, “I'll fight you with one paw tied behind my back.” Elsa, “as free as the wind blows, as free as the grass grows,..” or Simba “hakuna matata”. * The there is the movie...

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Nitro Cream Dream with a Vegetarian Nightmare

Nitro Cream Dream with a Vegetarian Nightmare

5 o’clock is a recent memory, time to tie one on. As in tie on the feedbag of course. Perhaps a pint as well. You know it. A tisket, a tasket,* a brisket in a basket. I brace myself for a Bracebridge Lake of Bays Barrelhouse beef brisket in a basket on a bun. Beefy...

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Industrial Strength

Industrial Strength

This brew is a tribute to all the industrial and industrious hard-working trades people buildin’ boats, weldin’ hulls, patching ports and stitching starboards, bracing bows and setting sterns. Maintaining masts and sewing sails, riveting rivets, priming pumps and...

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Galway Girl

Galway Girl

And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do, Cause her hair was black and her eyes were blue, And I knew right then I'd be takin' a whirl, Round the Salthill Prom with a Galway girl.* Ah yes, old Steve Earle was quite taken with a Galway girl. I was 8 or 9 years old...

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Cecil Shamus Fitzgerald the Bear Wrestling Brewer

Cecil Shamus Fitzgerald the Bear Wrestling Brewer

The Cecil Shamus Fitzgerald of legend certainly looks like a cranky old man, doesn’t he? Could be from a bad bear wrestling experience, maybe he “tapped” out on a bear hug? Or perhaps a bumpy camel ride. They say a two humper is better than a one humper, maybe they...

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