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Space Craft

Space Craft

Jupiter, Roman God of the sky, a lofty position to be sure. Overseeing the Romans, literally.  Of course, Paniza’s first love isn’t Roman history, it’s good beer. But their second love isn’t Roman history either, it’s outer space. Beer Trek. The final frontier. To...

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A Triple Master Mind Melt

A Triple Master Mind Melt

An Alien Master Mind triple IPA sounds out of this world, especially at 10.3%. I’m usually one and done, but when that one is a triple with an ABV that’s double, that’s trouble.  Me and Farmer Steve look to stretch our drinking dollar whenever we can, so when it comes...

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Psychic Pineapple Powers*

Psychic Pineapple Powers*

The prickly old pineapple is a symbol of good luck, wealth, luxury, welcome and hospitality, fertility, abundance, protection and gift giving. ** It is said to be able to increase confidence and strengthen intuition  and psychic experiences. And an upside-down...

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Dog Dazed and Confused

Dog Dazed and Confused

Every day is a dog daze around here when I have to walk the snaggle toothed, butt draggin’ ,leg humpin’, buffalo breathed, canine member of the family. I use the term “walk” loosely because our four-legged freeloader does more sniffin’ then walkin’. If a dog is a...

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Paradise Lost and Found

Paradise Lost and Found

Paradise lost you say. Did you look by the dashboard light? * How about on the road? ** I hope you aren’t referring to Milton’s classic ode to Adam and Eve, a poem that by its very length ensures that no one will ever read the whole thing. I couldn’t even get through...

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Paying Tribute to a Tributary

Paying Tribute to a Tributary

Tributary? German Style Wheat? Can you see the concerned look in my words? When it comes to wheat beers I usually go against the grain. Not my thing. I love me an amber, but I’m not too sweet on the wheat. My last Avling adventure was a super suds experience from the...

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Amber My Ass

Amber My Ass

I have a Skeleton Park brew in hand and at hand, their Heritage Series, and they are digging up an amber from the past. There is a real “Skeleton Park” in Kingston, a playground that is located on what was once a cemetery. Before construction they removed the remains,...

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Spring Training

Spring Training

The boys of summer are back, in spring training.* I remember a hockey player after watching his first baseball game saying “They shower after this?” I’m not sure about post game batting clean up, but baseball players make some major coin these days, maybe that's why...

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Blarney Stoned

Blarney Stoned

The legend of the Blarney Stone is that those who kiss it are bestowed “the gift of gab”. * I can think of a few politicians who probably not only kissed it but may have sucked on it for a while. Come to think of it, there are a few that may have swallowed it and...

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A Serendipitous Super Suds Sampling

A Serendipitous Super Suds Sampling

At the Lake of Bays Bracebridge Barrlehouse for a brew and it turned out to be a serendipitous suds sampling. Serendipitous, how so you say, because you enjoy an alliteration as much as I do. *  Well, I hand my business card to the bar tender, because when I’m...

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