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Brewberry

Brewberry

A tractor trailer full of fresh New Brunswick blueberries, haulin’ ass and guzzlin’ gas. Straight from The Pumphouse in Moncton to my beer fridge. A ton of blue fruit fun, for my one and done. * I’ve got a very merry brewberry Blueberry blonde to pour and score...

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If You Brew It They Will Come

If You Brew It They Will Come

Is it the ghost of Black Sox left fielder Shoeless Joe Jackson roaming the cornfield? The whispering apparition telling the LF gang “If you brew it they will come.”  Is this brew their Left Field of dreams?* Or maybe Ghost Runner is a spirited sprint of some sort? Or...

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Cold Gold at The Oar

Cold Gold at The Oar

If you ever find yourself up the Muskoka River without a paddle, it’s time to head for The Oar. Tasty food, top notch service and an interesting selection of brews from which to choose. And pricing that Farmer Steve wouldn’t suffer heart palpitations over. My last...

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Moose Boy in a House Coat on a Boat House

Moose Boy in a House Coat on a Boat House

Out on the lake, at one with nature, and I gave a warm wet the net welcome to a couple of fat bass-tards tonight. All that net wetting whet my whistle for a frosty cold wobbly pop. How about a Moose Boy coffee stout in a house coat on the boat house. Is he with a fox...

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The Disguised Fulfillment of a Repressed Desire

The Disguised Fulfillment of a Repressed Desire

Freud told us that “the dream is the disguised fulfillment of a repressed desire”. But there is nothing disguised or repressed about my desire to quaff this frosty cold brew while on the BBQ deck searing and scorching steaks as summer slip slides into fall. I wonder...

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Any Time is a Good Time for a Midnight in Munich

Any Time is a Good Time for a Midnight in Munich

Yes, it’s that time of year again, September 21st is the start of Oktoberfest in Munich. * It’s 5 o’clock somewhere but not in Munich, but whatever time it is, it’s time for me to quaff a Midnight in Munich Mӓrzen.  But if you’re Oktoberfesting in Munich and it’s...

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Bonne Fêtes All Around

Bonne Fêtes All Around

Trois Lacs out of Montréal has brewed a bonne fête bière for la Famille Viau on their 50th anniversary in business. Coincidentally, myself and the Department of Ultimate Patience and Virtue (the missus) have our 40th anniversary today. Sounds like it’s bonne fêtes all...

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On the Fence

On the Fence

Dad was a proud union man although he complained as much about the union as he did about the company. I guess it’s true, there is no perfect union, but it doesn’t hurt to strive for a more perfect one.*  I remember the old man saying that anyone that crossed the...

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Controversial but Cordial

Controversial but Cordial

The show that treads that fine line between informing and offending, this is the latest edition of the Crownsmen Chronicles. Some controversial (but cordial) comments were made, will the show be cancelled? Maybe the last show? Say it isn’t so! Were we reminiscing...

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A Fairy Tale Ending?

A Fairy Tale Ending?

Once upon a time there was an impressionable young brewer from Edmonton named Sea Change. One day while watching a beautiful rainbow form over the prairie skies he met Fruit Loop * and it was then and there that they decided to get together and brew Prairie Fairy....

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