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What’s Not To Love

What’s Not To Love

Back in the day I was quaffing quarts at the Ports. These days I’m a one and done pint partaker in the Port. As in Port Dalhousie. A lunchtime retreat to Lock Street to check out a new brew to review. In complete defiance or maybe just indifference to the calendar or...

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A Local Libation

A Local Libation

Not our first Local Lager but this one is plural, not possessive, and from a different locale. As in Clear Lake, home of….. (drum roll please) THE LARGEST BEER SPA IN THE WORLD! The Muskoka Beer Spa has it all. Pools, glamping cabins, a dump bucket, saunas, fire pits,...

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IV Times the Charm

IV Times the Charm

When I first saw an IV IPA I thought to myself that I’d rather drink it than take it intravenously. Ah, but it’s a Four Father’s IV so it appears some translation from Roman is required. They say three times the charm, although I wouldn’t count on that. Led Zeppelin’s...

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The One Thing We Know is That There Is No Way of Knowing

The One Thing We Know is That There Is No Way of Knowing

According to Sawdust City this is the season of the Saison, and this beer is the Saison of the season. As in spring. They also feel there is no way of knowing what comes next so we might just as well seize the day and smell the roses, and expound other trite clichés...

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Time for a Paddlin’ On the Double

Time for a Paddlin’ On the Double

I’ve been around the lake once or twice and did my fair share of gunnel bobbing as a kid. I hauled some of those fat bass-tards on a ten pound test into the old canoe. But I’m no white water warrior and never portaged, I’m just a catch and release canoeist, but I do...

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A Regal Beagle

A Regal Beagle

How about that beer pic! Three beagle bitters with three beagles at Dr. B’s Beleaguered but not Bashful Beagle Boarding house. If you are thinking to yourself “enough with the alliterations” unfortunately that wasn’t the “b” all or end all. It appears that the three...

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A Whale of a Pale Ale?

A Whale of a Pale Ale?

Another 5’oclock somewhere but not here on the thirsty Thursday Crownsmen Show and the featured brew is a Vancouver based Steam Works hazy pale. On the can is a rendering of Vancouver Bay, with a couple of Orcas cavorting like peas in a pod, having a whale of a time.*...

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Did They Crush It?

Did They Crush It?

I don’t have too many opinions about politics. The truth is I can weave a pretty good yarn, recount a rant, tell a tall tale on occasion. But when it comes to bull shitting I can’t hold a candle to most politicians. That being said, I don’t think Counterpart’s can art...

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Post Prohibition Pint

Post Prohibition Pint

Eliot Ness headed up the prohibition forces way back in the day and busted up more stills than a serial photobomber. It seems ironic that Great Lakes Brewing out of Cleveland (not to be confused with Great Lakes Brewery out of Canada) * has put him on their amber, but...

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The Silver Lining in this Review

The Silver Lining in this Review

I’m no expert about the weather so I am not qualified to comment on the types of linings that may be prevalent in a various cloud types. But on a more cirrus note, I’m not sure that every cloud has a silver lining unless of course the cloud has been seeded with silver...

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