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When you are young you are consumed by wanderlust. Then you start to settle down and wander less. The next stage is wanderlost, our topic today and a fitting one for a cranky old man. When the GPS is acting up I’ll be damned if I am going to ask a stranger for...
Taking into account the current situation and keeping in mind the present state of all things, all those things being equal of course, and with due consideration, when all is said and done, at the end of the day more often than not it’s time for a brew review.* Market...
My evening dalliance was A Stout With Coffee. I usually don’t have a coffee after 5PM but I figured it must be 5 o’clock somewhere. This tasting started out a tad unbalanced*, with a slight pop and spill in my office, the coffee percolating perhaps? The office...
When I first saw this beer I tried to determine what brewery it came from. You may have noticed that breweries tend to have a theme or a brand to their can artwork. The crazy meanderings of the Flying Monkeys or the New Ontario bear for example. But when I saw Indie...
Just filled up at 23¢ a litre, man gas prices sure shot up after that oil crisis.* Bought a six pack yesterday and that set me back $2.80, ouch. Revin’ up the terrible two-tone turbo Torino, slammin’ some Seger in the cassette deck and shootin’ the tube. Rockin’ Main...
A night out on the town with my much better half and a shout out to Richard and Sarah who joined us from across the pond. They are braving snow, ice and freezing temperatures to enjoy all the great white North has to offer this time of year, that being snow, ice and...
This time Big Rig is haulin’ Canadian Amber right across our great country, from sea to sea to sea. That statement might not survive a fact check but it sure sounds patriotic doesn’t it. I am not too sure how far this beer is getting hauled but I do know I hauled one...
When I think of beer maybe I think of Half Cut, but not surprisingly my first thought isn’t clean cut. When it comes to clean cut I picture the opening of The Andy Griffith Show*, Andy and Opie, Father and son residents of Mayberry North Carolina, walking home down a...
That ol’ iron horse pulling out of the Stockyards reminded me of the classic song “Train Kept A Rollin”*. With Jeff Beck’s recent passing this Yardbirds staple is just one of many great songs to remember him by. What Stockyards out of Kitchener tell us is that their...
The bear on the can with the hands of a man is reading the North Bay newspaper from February 20th, 1945. In addition to news of Allied victories on many fronts (Germany surrendered on May 7 1945) the other major headline would have been the downtown blaze that burnt...