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I remember meeting Daryl Sittler in the mid-90’s. His business card simply said “Daryl Sittler; Businessman”. We had just taken our company public and he was a board member. When we met he said “So you’re the cashflow part of the business” because my part of the...
I’ve visited a few farms in my day and let me tell you, the early to bed early to rise lifestyle, coupled with a hearty heap of hard work, is not for me. Milking the bulls, fertilizing the fields, harvesting the hay, shearing the cows, it’s just too much work.* But...
Endless summer, Brian Wilson * wouldn't even have got out of bed for it but I'm all in, as in soaking in the great Muskoka outdoors and soaking up some Muskoka summer suds. I usually prefer wheat in my cereal, and only dabble in the straw once in a Blue Moon, but...
The haze brigade sounds like the cranky old men the morning after our AGM. “Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do and feel like death drawn over the next day.”* And the emaciated fellow on the can looks like the cranky old men the morning after our AGM. Or...
Our Editor throws more shade than a streetlamp at midnight.* Me, I’m a live and let live kinda guy, a mellow fellow. The old duck once told me that if I didn’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. That philosophy is sometimes a bit of a challenge when...
Another candidate for a COMDB beer naming party. An IPA, that’s some pretty lazy beer naming if you ask me. With over 170,000 words in the English language you would think you might be able to string together an adjective and a noun at least and come up with...
A Mining4Beer event, you had me at free beer.** The only beer at the bar I hadn’t tried was a Sol. Sol here goes. The COMDB translation department were hard at work on this one, doing some Sol searching. The ever belligerent but occasionally efficient translation team...
A recent trip to the U.S. gave me the opportunity to explore some new beers that I haven't seen before. That can be good and bad - unfortunately in this case it landed mainly on the bad side. It seemed promising enough, a pale lager brewed by Von Trapp Brewing out of...
If you think the three towers has a familiar ring to it, you may be thinking of Tolkien’s Two Towers. Or maybe the good folks at Gateway City are referring to the castle located south-west of Highgarden and Oldtown, on the edge of the Redwyne Straits?* But if you...
You couldn’t ask for a better October Muskoka day than this one. Well, I guess you could, but you wouldn’t get it so what’s the point. * Sunny and warm on the lake with Farmer Steve and his boys, and the fat bass-tards were jumping into the boat like nobody’s...